Brazil: monthly sales fall 6.1%

Cement sales in Brazil totalled 4.6Mt, down 6.1 per cent compared to the same month a year earlier, according to preliminary results and market estimates gathered by Brazilian National Cement Industries Union, SNIC.

Cumulative sales over the last 12 months (ie, March 2015 - February 2016), reached 63.1Mt, down 9.5 per cent versus the comparative period of the year earlier (ie, March 2014 - February 2015).