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| Lafarge announces the expansion of Silver grove plant The French building materials group Lafarge will invest approximately $120 million to expand the capacity of its state-of-the-art gypsum drywall manufacturing facility in Silver Grove, Kentucky. The new gypsum wallboard line will increase the annual capacity of the plant from 900 million square feet to 1, 600 million square feet. Construction is expected to begin during the first half of 2006 and scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2007. Built in 2000, the Silver Grove plant serves a market encompassing 14 states and representing nearly 10 billion square feet of annual demand. In November 2004, Lafarge also announced that it was investing $75 million to double the capacity of its gypsum drywall manufacturing facility in Buchanan, New York State. By mid-2006, the Buchanan plant will therefore totalize 650 million square feet annual capacity. This Buchanan extension is included in the overall 300 million euro, announced in June 2005, to increase, over the next two years, Lafarge gypsum production capacity worldwide by more than 20% (Great-Britain, China, South Korea, Turkey, Romania, etc.). Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, holds top-ranking positions in all four of its Divisions: Cement, Aggregates & Concrete, Roofing and Gypsum. Lafarge employs 77, 000 people in 75 countries and posted sales of 14.4 billion euro in 2004. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |