When this 1960 Ford convertible was new, the Lehigh Cement Company had fourteen plants in eleven states producing cements for the use in paving applications, concrete pipe, masonry products, oil and gas drilling, precast concrete structures, soil stabilization, and farm silos. While the terms concrete and cement are often used interchangeably, they are not the same. Cement is an ingredient of concrete. It’s the fine grey powder that, when mixed with water, sand and gravel or crushed stone, forms the rock-like mass known as concrete. Cement is a small percentage of a concrete mixture, acting as the binding agent or glue in concrete.
Lehigh began as a single-mill operation in 1897 in Ormrod, Pennsylvania, producing Portland cement. By the mid-Seventies, Heidelberg Cement, one of the world’s leading producers of cement and ready-mixed concrete, acquired Lehigh to become today's Lehigh Heidelberg Cement Company.
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