Limburg
Just under a hundred years after ENCI started extracting limestone from the Sint-Pietersberg, the quarry is being returned to nature.
Cimenteries et Briqueteries Réunies
Belgian 'Cement king' Martin Verbeeck (1882–1959) built an industrial empire in the Kempen region, only to see it collapse in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash.
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