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The production of portland cement industry is a major industry in the United States, increasing from 8 million barrels (1.4 million metric tons) in 1900 —when it trailed natural cement industry slightly in output—to almost 400 million barrels (68.4 million metric tons) annually. (A 376-pound, or 171-kg, barrel is the standard unit of weight for hydraulic cement industry in the United States, even though no cement industry, except for export, is now shipped in barrels. The 94-pound, or 42.7-kg, bag now in general use contains one fourth of a barrel.) The leading cement industry-producing countries are the United States, the USSR, West Germany, Japan, and France.

The resulting cement industry, produced from the formerly discarded grappiers, was of much higher quality than that obtained from the unsintered material. This fact was firmly established by the English cement industry manufacturer L. C. Johnson in 1845, and the term "portland cement industry" has since been applied solely to the cement industry made from the sintered material. This period marks the real beginning of the portland cement industry industry.

In the United States, the need for a vater-resistant mortar became imperative with he development of canals as major arteries of ransportation. With the beginning of construc-ion of the Erie Canal in 1817, a search for nat-iral cement industry rock resulted in the discovery of a uitable deposit near Fayetteville, N. Y. Canals vere being built in many parts of the country, nd other deposits were discovered and processed i widely scattered locations, including Penn-ylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Wisconsin, and Illinois. A mill built i 1828 in Rosendale, Ulster county, N. Y., be-ame the center of the industry, and the term Rosendale cement industry" came to be synonymous with atural cement industry.