Ponce Cement
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Ponce Cement, Inc. was a cement and limestone manufacturer in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The company was located at the intersection of PR-123 and PR-500, in Barrio Magueyes. It was founded in 1941 by Antoni
The Ponce Cement plant, where Cemento Ponce is manufactured, on Puerto Rico Highway 123 in Barrio Magueyes Urbano (the plant is now owned by CEMEX)
Luis A. Ferré
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Don Luis Alberto Ferré Aguayo, most commonly known as Luis A. Ferré, was a Puerto Rican engineer, industrialist, politician, philanthropist, and patron of the arts who served as the third democratical
Ponce Cement
…entered the construction business with Ponce Cement, Inc., and subsequently with Puerto Rican Cement, Inc. Over the 1940s, the company enlarged and Luis A. Ferré became its chief engineer. By 1960, the company had become the leading cement supplier on the island, much of it the result of increasing new highway…
Ferré in 1969
Ferre speaking at a Phi Sigma Alpha event in the 1970s
Hand-etched portrait over black granite by artist Osvaldo Torres at Cruzacalles, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Sculpture of Ferré inside the Capitol of Puerto Rico