Green Island Cement is Hong Kong's only major cement producer.[1] It was a former listed company in Hong Kong and was delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It was founded in Green Island, Macau in 1887, and has established operations in Hong Kong and South China. It operates 6 concrete plants in Hong Kong with a total of 11 production lines, and 3 quarries each in Hong Kong and mainland China. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings.
History
The company was founded in Ilha Verde (meaning "green island") in Macau in 1886 with British investment[2] and was the first manufacturer of Portland cement in the region, with lime kilns that burned locally dredged coral and imported limestone.[3] A second factory was established in Hung Hom in 1898, as Britain took control of the New Territories, under the Second Convention of Peking.[4]
The availability of inexpensive cement was a boon to the development of the area that followed, and further provided a useful export capacity, such as of encaustic glazed floor tiles.[4]
The firm relocated to Hok Un, Hong Kong in 1925 and became a British company shortly afterward.[5]
Business
Ying Mu Manufacturing
Qingzhou Yingni has Yingni clay manufacturing plants in Hong Kong and Yunfu and Shantou in China respectively. Green Island Ying Ni's factory in Tap Shek Kok, Tuen Mun, is the only integrated cement product manufacturing plant in Hong Kong, accounting for about 1/3 of the Hong Kong market.
Mining in Southeast Asia
Limestone is mainly mined and exported in Siquijor Province, Philippines.
Ship transportation
It mainly provides ships to transport its own products.
External links
References
- The Global Cement Report™ – 12th Edition Tradeship Publications Ltd^
- Economy of Macau Jornal Va Kio, Macau, 1988^
- Jason Wordie. One country, many cisterns: when Hong Kong's Toilet King grew rich South China Morning Post, 10 March 2017^