In 1900, a brief article appeared in the Irish Independent (12/02/1900, p 7).
EBLANA CEMENT WORKS
On Saturday afternoon, by kind arrangement of the management of the Eblana Cement Works, a visit was paid by members of the Irish Architectural Association to the extensive premises at Ringsend. The visit was made for the purpose of inspecting the works and having the manufacture of cement explained. There was a large attendance of members of the Association, and amongst those present were Messrs. W. M. Mitchell, J. H. Webb, W. Ward, P. F. O'Sullivan Hughe, and Mr. H. Allberry, its hon. secretary.
Mr. A. E. Mills, managing director of the Eblana Cement Company, and Mr. Schünemann, also of the company, piloted the party through the works, and into the laboratory, explaining each step in the manufacturing process. These steps—which were very interestingly described—may be briefly summed up as follows: —The first process, in which blocks of limestone and shale—forming the raw material, and taken from the company's own quarries—are broken and carried by the elevator to Mill No. 1. Here the material is crushed into powder and carried into Mill No. 2. The material thus treated is damped and made into bricks. These bricks are carried up, by a very ingenious automatically depositing apparatus, to the iron kiln, and is here subject to a heat of 2,000 degrees centigrade. The material comes out of the kiln in the form of "clinker", and is again crushed, carried into Mill No. 1, and thence to Mill No. 2. The mesh used in sieving is 32,000 holes to the square inch, and the residue found at the Eblana Works is only 15 per cent. The testing processes were afterwards explained In the laboratory by Mr Schünemann. The company, incorporated in 1898—tums out a first-class cement, the capacity of the works at present turning out annually six to seven thousand tons, which could be easily increased, if demanded, to forty thousand tons. Employment is given to fifty men, exclusive of those employed in quarrying. The engine used for working the plant has 150 h.p. The visitors expressed themselves very grateful for the experiences of viewing the works and for the useful information supplied. The business and works of the Eblana Cement Company are first-class, and the cement is worthy of the careful notice of all contractors, builders, etc., in this country, being a locally manufactured article of superior quality.