Royal White Cement raises Southwest market throughput capability

Royal White Cement plans a Houston Ship Channel terminal, equipped for annual transfer of 100,000 tons of cementitious materials to truck tankers or rail cars. Located near the mouth of the channel, the facility will lie on a 23.8-acre site of Industrial Realty Group (IRG), which is repurposing three structures formerly used for fertilizer. Along with deep water vessel access…

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Royal White Cement subsidiary secures key permit for 500K-tpy Texas mill

Sources: Royal White CementInc., Houston; CP staff

US Cement, LLC has received a draft air permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a white-cement plant near the town of Brady—the first American greenfield operation of its kind since the Great Recession. Groundbreaking on the facility, which will have a capacity of 500,000 tons and sits on a limestone deposit of 80 million tons, is slated for the first half of 2019. 

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Royal White loads North American terminals with CSA cement

Sources: Royal White Cement Inc., Houston; CP staff

Royal White has developed a calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA) cement suited to agencies specifying very high early strength concrete for highway or runway pavement construction or repairs, plus customers seeking a CSA base in precast production or grout, shotcrete and underlayment applications. RWC CSA Cement attains compressive strengths of 4,000, 6,000 and 10,000 psi at three hours, 24 hours and 28 days, respectively.

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