The Tianjin Municipality Cement Industry Association revealed announced that the output of Tianjin’s bulk cement reached 5.2Mt in 2006, of which the cement bulk rate reached 90 per cent. Tianjin used 8.3Mt of bulk cement, up by 1.3Mt over 2005 or up 18.57%, with the utilisation rate of bulk cement reaching 61.5%, 3.52 percentage points higher than 2005.