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The Pretoria Portland Cement Company (PPC) De Hoek plant near Piketberg which started production in 1923 is one of the longest established cement plants in South Africa. De Hoek can produce over 1.1 million tons of cement per annum and pack more than 1.4 million bags of cement a month.

Class 60 024 sits outside the loco shed at the Ribblesdale Cement Works, Clitheroe.

Hope cement works with Nunlow creeping about behind the wagons with an open day shuttle to the exchange sidings.

One of two rotary kilns at Hope cement works.

The grain silos at berth 27 of the inner harbour at Port Adelaide can supply wheat and barley to the ship loaders at up to 700 tonnes per hour. Viterra also has a newer deep water terminal in the outer harbour. In the right background is the works of Adelaide Brighton Cement. The ship is the Singapore registered bulk carrier 'Ocean Hiryu'.

Harry Needle Railway Company class 20 No.3 (formerly 20906) emerges from the silo area at the Breedon Cement works at Hope with a rake of coal empties. Currently large quantities of coal from South Wales are being stockpiled here.

BR/English Electric Class 08 diesel-electric shunter 08682 at Hope Cement Works. This locomotive was built at Horwich Works and released to traffic numbered as D3849 on 29/08/1959. It is now owned by the Harry Needle Railroad Company and remains in the colourful livery applied by Bombardier when in its ownership at Derby. This locomotive was formerly named 'Lionheart' but the name has now been removed.

Preheater tower and cement tank wagons at the Hope cement works.

Dust extraction and preheater tower at the Hanson (Heidelberg) cement works at Clitheroe. Dust collection to the fore and the chimney on top was as a funny angle after storm damage. The company was waiting for a shutdown when it would be reattached properly.

South Ferriby works was built in by 1938 by Eastwoods Humber Cement.The first chalk was dug by hand and transported by bucket conveyor to the works and the clay was excavated from behind the works and transported on a narrow gauge railway system. The works was commissioned by three German engineers, who were called home due to the outbreak of World War II before their work was completed. Rugby Portland Cement Co.Ltd bought out Eastwoods Humber Cement in 1962 and installed a new kiln and conveyor. There are now two kilns in operations at South Ferriby: Numbers 2 and 3. The original kiln Number 1 was sold to a company in Jamaica following the works' first major plant upgrade in 1968. The South Ferriby works is currently owned by Cemex UK. It produced in the region of 800,000 tonnes of cement per annum and employed nearly 150 people until the plant was mothballed in 2020.

A corner of the Breedon cement works at Hope at the lower end of the two rotary kilns.

The Masonite factory at Drumsna, Co. Leitrim is a major employer in the Carrick-on-Shannon area of Ireland with a staff of around 300. Established in 1997, it produces door facings.

JS 6246 storms uphill from Majiawan and past the cement works on the climb to the opencast mine on the Yuanbaoshan coal railway.

Preheater tower serving the two rotary kilns at Hope cement works.

Cemex Rugby Cement Plant, Lawford Road, Rugby seen from the train. With its origins in the early 19th century, the company was founded in 1862 as the Rugby Lias Lime & Cement Company Ltd before being renamed the Rugby Portland Cement Company Ltd in 1872, in 1979 it was renamed the Rugby Group plc. In the late 1990s, the plant at Rugby was upgraded at a cost of £200 million to a production capacity of 1.8 million tonnes. In 2000 Rugby Cement was taken over by the RMC Group, which was itself taken over by the Mexican firm Cemex in 2005.

66156 moves the tanks under the loading silos at the Clitheroe cement works.

Hawthorn Leslie 3865, temporarily renamed Vulcan after the first Barrington Light Railway locomotive, waits in the sidings adjacent to the silos at Barrington cement works.

The Brazilian company Votorantim Cimentos now owns the Cosmos Cement Mill at Bobadilla Station, Málaga. The works was begun in January 1999 and was an attempt to create self-sufficency in cement in the region.