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Show Assn. organized to boost use of cement T!3 Portland Cement Association Asso-ciation is a national, nonprofit, unincorporated organization to improve and extend the uses of Portland cement and concrete. con-crete. Established with its main offices in Chicago since 1916, the Association is supported by the voluntary financial contributions contri-butions of its 64 member cement ce-ment companies in the United States and Canada. These 183 separate plants, produce most of the portland cement used in the United States and Canada. The founders of the Association Associa-tion realized that in order for portland cement to merit and attain widespread use and public pub-lic confidence, a vast amount of basic research, product development, de-velopment, technical service, education and promotion would be required. If each company were to have undertaken this task independently, a tremendous tremen-dous duplication of effort and expense would have resulted. |
