Aalborg Portland

Portland cement was patented in 1824 by the Englishman Joseph Aspdin.

Six decades later the Aalborg businessman Hans Holm and the engineer Frederick Læssøe Smidth built a cement factory 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) northeast of Aalborg in the town of Rørdal.

[2] In 2009 the Sinai White Portland Cement division became the "biggest white cement integrated plant worldwide in terms of capacity".

[5] Aalborg Portland is considered the biggest polluter in Denmark.

[9] In 2022, Aalborg Portland announced a corporate roadmap that sets an emissions ceiling target of no more than 600,000 tons by 2030.