Whatever happened to the Ideal Cement plant ...
May 20, 2011· The Ideal Cement plant closed in November 1982, laying off 115 of its 170 workers, according to StarNews articles. The company blamed the slumping construction industry for a decline in business. The 1,868acre Castle Hayne site where Titan America has proposed to build a new cement plant includes the old Ideal Cement plant, which in .