Beaver

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Clinker manufacture operational: 1884-11/1907

Approximate total clinker production: 400,000 tonnes

Raw materials:

Ownership:

See also a general history of the Frindsbury cement plants. The plant had eighteen chamber kilns, installed as follows: five in 1884, four in 1888, five in 1891 and four in 1893, giving a final capacity of 468 t/week. The plant was operated in common with Beehive from 1895, and was absorbed into the Crown and Quarry site in 1907, the kilns continuing in use there until 1925.

Power supply

The plant was entirely direct-driven by a 300 HP steam engine.

Rawmills

There was a washmill followed by four flat stone mills.

No rotary kilns were installed.


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