Ash Grove Cement Company is a cement manufacturer based in Overland Park, Kansas. It was the largest US-owned cement company until it was acquired in 2018 by CRH plc, a global building materials business headquartered in Ireland.[1]
The company was established in 1882 at Ash Grove, Missouri, as the Ash Grove White Lime Association. It commenced cement manufacture in 1908, with a plant at Chanute, Kansas. It now has cement manufacturing capacity from 12 plants:
The company makes Portland cements, fly ash cements, masonry cements, oilwell cements and soil stabilizers. It also operates a lime plant in Oregon, many ready-mix concrete plants in the Midwest, and a limestone quarry at Blubber Bay, Texada Island, British Columbia.
On October 20, 2017, Ash Grove announced[2] that its stockholders had approved a plan for the company to be acquired by CRH plc, a global building materials business headquartered in Ireland.
On June 15, 2018, CRH plc announced that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission had issued its consent order for this transaction,[3] thus completing the acquisition.