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Permqnenle to Build lorge Gement Plont in Hqwoii

Permanente Cement Company will build a cement manufacturing plant in Hawaii, it was announced in Honolulu by Henry J. Kaiser, chairman of the board and president. The island of Oahu's Waianae area will be the site.

The new industry will raise Permanente's investment in facilities in Hawaii and other islancls of the Pacific to $20,000,000. The plant will have an initial annual capacity of 1,700,000 barrels, equal to 6,800,000 sacks of cement a year. Delivery of equipment-on order earlier-is scheduletl within five months. The target is to begin cement production as early as August 196O.

Permanente simultaneously is now expanding its Honolulu cement distribution plant by 43/o, raising storage capacity at Iwilei Pier 32 from 80,000 barrels to 125,000. Truck load-out facilities also are being expanded.

A lime-laden area of 2OB acres on Oahu's fast-burgeoning industrial site is being acquired by Permanente. Out of the property will be developed a ZS-acre manufacturing site and a huge deposit of coral. Modern earth-moving equipment will scoop out big tonnages of calcium carborrate rock in the form of coral, which is chemically tl-re ecpivalent of limestone-the basic raw material of cement.

Finished cement will be hauled 28 miles from Waianae into Honolulu points-some 75/o of it being clelivered di-