Essroc Italcementi Group has entered into an agreement with Holcim to purchase its slag cement grinding facility in New Jeresy. As part of the transaction, Essroc will also obtain Holcim?s cement terminal in Everett, Massachusetts. The acquisition will finalise when the pending Holcim and Lafarge merger completes later in 2015.
The Camden facility can produce upwards of 700,000 tonne/year of slag cement. Essroc currently produces slag cement at its Picton, Ontario, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, cement plants and at its slag grinding facility in Middlebranch, Ohio. With the addition of Camden, Essroc has a combined annual production capacity in excess of one million tonne/year.