Increasing in strentgh due to curing system

Highly flexible production of precast elements for housing and industrial applications

Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC), Mexico has successfully improved the quality and strength of their manufactured concrete precast panels. Through their new, customer-specific engineered concrete curing system, they are achieving at least a 10% increase in strength.

Company profile

Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) is a multinational corporation with operations in North and South America. The company was founded in 1941 with the first cement manufacturing operation in the city of Chihuahua in Northern Mexico. Currently, the group has three plants for the production of cement located in Mexico in addition to three cement plants located in the United States and an operation in Bolivia, with an overall capacity of 5.5 million metric tons annually.

The principal strategy of GCC is to invest in the growth and innovation of the building materials industry....

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