Cuba's construction economy is taking its position as one of the key drivers of the country's economic growth with housing at the forefront. However, its state-run wet-process cement works are still suffering from inefficiency, in need of rehabilitation and investment.
With over 25,000t of grey cement made in the first quarter of this year, the “26 de Julio” cement works situated in the municipality of Nuevitas, Cuba, celebrates its 44th anniversary. Rudy Gar...
Pilar Fernandez Gonzalez-Pardo, head of MINCIN’s Non-Food Retail Sale Group has told local press that building materials will be sold in every municipality of the country in an effort to foster ho...
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said that a total of 6900t of cement from Cuba will be imported, although the government controls 90 per cent of the cement market. The reasons to purchase import...
Cuba’s largest cement factory met its annual target to produce 900,000t of clinker. According to Serafin Céspedes, Technical Director of Cementos Cienfuegos SA, the industry has demonstrated i...
The central Cuban province of Sancti Spiritus has increased production of construction materials for the domestic market and export. As per this local report the province already supplies large vo...
The cement factory in Nuevitas, eastern Cuba, has resumed production after being damaged by Hurricane Ike. Brigades of skilled workers repaired the damage on pipes and roofs, thus creating condit...
The Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce focused primarily on alleviating the problems that arose from the shortage of cement, basic food commodities such as flour and rice and the scrap ...
Minister of Industry, Commerce & Investment Karl Samuda said that 5,000t of cement would arrive in Jamaica from Cuba within the next two weeks, to ease the current shortage, reports local press. ...
