Posted on 03/01/2017 8:32:08 PM PST by Beave Meister
Mexico's Cemex, one of the world's largest cement producers, is open to providing the raw materials for U.S. President Donald Trump's promised wall between the two neighbors, daily newspaper Reforma reported on Wednesday.
"We will gladly do it," Cemex President Rogelio Zambrano told the newspaper, when asked if the company would provide a cement estimate for the controversial project, potentially worth billions of dollars.
It was not known which other companies might participate or the likely demand for cement for the wall, Zambrano said.
On Wednesday a spokesperson for Cemex provided a statement to Telemundo. "Cemex is not a U.S. construction company; it's a company that produces materials for construction. To date there are no technical details about said construction and no one has sought us out to participate. If one of our clients asks us to quote materials, we have the responsibility to do so, but that does not imply that Cemex would participate in the construction."
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Most of their cement is made here and aggregate sourced local too. Concrete is concrete, it gets made to a job specific recipe and it’s tested on the jobsite during placement. If it doesn’t meet spec it’s usually because of water content, initial temperature or excess time from batching wet and getting it to the job.
The wall will probably have a few mobile batch plants when they get far from urban areas with them, and they will probably do a lot of summer pouring at night (cheaper than adding ice for that kind of volume I’d bet).
The same way Obama that wanted to ecsure than Iran got their nuclear deal. The same way that Soros wants to assist Obama in his new activist organizations.
This isn’t a building. It’s a wall in the desert. No bricks. No mortar. Concrete slabs set by cranes.
Only if Mexico pays for it.
Me either. You would have to spend too much time testing it.
Buy American is not that simple when it comes to cement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemex
“About one-third of the company’s sales come from its Mexico operations, a quarter from its plants in the U.S.”
Subsidiaries
Cemento Ponce General (See Ponce Cement, Inc.) - Ponce, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican Cement Company - Guaynabo, Puerto Rico
Compania Valencia de Cementos Portland S.A. - Madrid, Spain
Rinker Materials Corporation - West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
CEMEX Australia Pty Limited - Chatswood, Australia
CEMEX Asia Holdings Ltd. - Philippines
CxNetworks - Miami, Florida, United States
CEMEX USA - Houston,[20] Texas, United States
Western Rail Road - New Braunfels, Texas, United States
CEMEX UK Limited - Thorpe, Surrey, United Kingdom
New Sunward Holding - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cena Acquisitions Corporation - Houston, Texas, United States
CEMEX Mexico - Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Ready Mix USA- Birmingham, Alabama
Traditional American concrete mix 1-2-3, one part cement, two parts sand, three parts gravel.
Traditional Mexican mix 1-4-9, guaranteed to stay together until the first hard rain.
Does Lockheed still own Portland Cement?
No f’ing way. I bet they’d claim it was cement but in reality it is the same paper mache they make pinyatas out of to build the wall. No thanks@!
Trump would not willingly, knowingly build some thing like the wall that would crumble.
He is not perfect, but remember we are not just dealing with typical President. This one fights for us, not just rubber stamp or unAmerican agenda as recent presidents.
NO WAY
American steel for American pipelines
American concrete for American walls (hauled by American concrete trucks by American truck drivers)
We have a lot of sand too.
Good luck with that. CEMEX, Europe and the Chinese own the majority of US cement facilities.
http://www.theconcreteproducer.com/producers/tcp-100-north-americas-largest-concrete-producers_o
“so what I’m hearing from you is, my straw man needs to be a women ?”
A trans-gender woman of color...maybe one in a wheelchair led around by a seeing-eye dog.
Will it have oatmeal for filler?
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