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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.

 



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