1941.
Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua
is founded in this year, when the first efforts to produce cement are undertaken.
1943.
Cement-making operations
begin with capacity of 60,000 metric tons (wet process).
1947.
A new dry-process plant
replaces the previous one.
1952.
The plant expands its
capacity to 170,000 metric tons.
1962.
A Concrete Division was
created with the name Concretos Premezclados de Chihuahua S.A. de C.V.
1967.
The plant installed capacity
was increased to 310,000 metric tons.
1972.
A new plant in Ciudad Juárez,
Chihuahua, begins operations.
1982.
Chihuahua
plant installed capacity was
increased to 630,000 metric tons.
1991-1992.
GCC is the new name of the company.
GCC starts operations in the Mexican Stock Exchange placing 25.9% of its capital in
stocks.
1994.
GCC aquires a cement plant at
Tijeras, New Mexico, and also the terminals in Albuquerque, NM, and El Paso, TX.
1995.
The new plant in Samalayuca,
chihuahua, starts
operations; the facility is located
50 kilometers south of the Juarez City-El Paso border.
1997.
A new aggregates plant begins operations in Juárez, Chihuahua, with an
installed annual capacity of 1,800,000
tons.
2008.
GCC Rio Grande state-of-the-art 2900 STPD (2631
MTPD)
greenfield
plant at Pueblo, CO
made its first clinker in January of 2008.
It is the first
greenfield
plant to be commissioned in the
United States
outside
Florida
in the last 15 years.