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Major item in the expansion program is a 360-foot rotary kiln which is in the final stages of fabrication in the San Francisco shipyards of Bethlehen-r Pacific Coast Steel Corporation. It is Calaveras' fifth, and rvill raise the company's production capacity by 3O/o to more than 4,500,00O barrels of cement per year.

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"The $lant enla,rgement is being rushed because Calaveras wants to continue to supply its customers with whatever amounts of cement they may require," Mein declared.

The first of eight 45-foot long sections of the kiln already has arrived at the Calaveras plant in San Andreas, Calif. The other sections will continue moving by rail at threeday intervals until the shipment is complete. Supporting piers for the kiln already are in place, and the sections will be assembled into a completed unit without delay.

The Bethlel-rem yard in Sarl Francisco is rolling the shell of the kiln out of fu-inch steel plate on the same floor and with the same machinery and personnel used in the construction of oceangoing vessels.

Calaveras already has completed the construction of nerv cement storage silos and new slurry tanks which are a part of the overall expansion program. A new tertiary crusher went into operation last month.

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