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Article: Mirant to Supply Synthetic Gypsum to Lafarge Beginning in 2010.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- August 20, 2008
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Lafarge, North America's largest diversified supplier of construction materials, and Mirant Corporation, a leading U.S.-based competitive energy company, announced that they have signed a long-term agreement under which Mirant, beginning in 2010, will supply synthetic gypsum to Lafarge's gypsum drywall manufacturing facility in Buchanan, New York (see also Lafarge North America Inc.).
Reflecting Lafarge's long-standing commitment to producing "green" products, the company will invest in an upgrade of its Buchanan plant which will enable it to manufacture a full line of gypsum products using this environmentally-friendly material. The supply agreement will also ...