1910s

  • 1910
    • The Iowa Portland Cement Company is formed and builds a wet process plant in Des Moines, operating two kilns.
    • A quarry is opened near Earlham, Iowa, 30 miles west of the plant. The rock is moved to the plant by rail.
1910

1920s

  • 1920
    • Hawkeye Cement Company takes over the operation.
1920

1940s

  • 1940
    • Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company buys the plant.
1940

1950s

  • 1952
    • The annual producing capacity of the plant climbs to approximately 2,000,000 barrels of various types of Portland and masonry cements.
1952

1970s

  • 1979
    • Marquette sells the plant to The Monarch Cement Company, based in Humboldt, Kansas. At the time of purchase, the plant is rated at 300,000 TPY.
1979

1980s

  • 1985
    • The producing plant is transitioned to a clinker grinding facility. Clinker from the Humboldt plant is trucked in open-top trailers to Des Moines for grinding into finish cement.
1985

1990s

  • 1994
    • The plant becomes a distribution terminal, receiving cement via covered rail hopper cars and bottom-dump semi-trailer trucks and pneumatic trucks.
1994

2000s

  • 2000
    • The Des Moines terminal officially becomes Monarch Cement of Iowa, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Monarch Cement Company.
2000
  • 1910

    • The Iowa Portland Cement Company is formed and builds a wet process plant in Des Moines, operating two kilns.
    • A quarry is opened near Earlham, Iowa, 30 miles west of the plant. The rock is moved to the plant by rail.
  • 1920

    • Hawkeye Cement Company takes over the operation.
  • 1940

    • Marquette Cement Manufacturing Company buys the plant.
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