End of an Era: TXI Cement Sold To MartinMarietta ...
Jan 30, 2014· In a 2 billion deal, Raleigh, North Carolinabased aggregate and crushed stone manufacturer Martin Marietta Materials (a separate spinoff on the more wellknow aerospace conglomerate) bought Dallas'' own TXI Cement, which opened its first cement kiln in Midlothian in 1960.. This year, that kiln, along with the three other obsolete wet kilns at TXI''s Midltohian plant that burned .