The US Federal Trade Commission has approved the sale of the Essroc cement plant in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
HeidelbergCement and Italcementi have sold the the Essroc cement plant and eight cement terminals in the mid-Atlantic and related assets to Argos USA, a subsidiary of Cementos Argos.
The sale is required by the Trade Commission's August 2016 final order settling charges that the merger of Heidelberg and Italcementi would likely harm competition in five regional markets for cement in the United States.
