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Cement production sees negligible growth in 7MFY23-24

10 April 2024, Published under Cement News

According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan’s cement industry production during the first seven months of FY23-24 (July 2023-January 2024) stood at 24.24Mt, almost flat (0.05 per cent growth) compared to the previous year’s corresponding data. The obvious reason was the slowdown in the country’s construction industry due to the high cost of business.  However, Johar Qandhari, president of the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI), expressed satisfaction over the re...

Pakistan's cement exports rise but fall MoM in FY19

23 July 2019, Published under Cement News

Pakistan's cement industry recorded a growth of 21.9 per cent in earning of foreign exchange revenue, 40.4 per cent in terms of quantity and 49.7 per cent in terms of Pakistani rupee earnings from cement exports in the FY18-19, according to Pakistan's Bureau of Statistics (PBS). The government official data says that export revenue for the first 12 months of the current July 2018-June 2019 stood at US$271.72m by exporting 6.4Mt of cement and clinker during compared to US$222.84m at 4.56Mt ...

Pakistan's seaborne exports grow July 2018-March 2019

23 April 2019, Published under Cement News

Cement exports during the first nine months of July 2018 to March 2019 recorded a YoY growth of 32.8 per cent and 55.4 per cent in terms of value in dollar and quantity, respectively, according to Pakistan's Bureau of Statistics (PBS). The rise in cement exports came on the back of an increase in seaborne clinker and cement exports. However, exports to Afghanistan and India contracted by 17.2 and 20.1 per cent, respectively. Pakistan's cement industry earned foreign exchange revenues of...

Cement production falls on MoM and YoY basis during 6MFY19

18 February 2019, Published under Cement News

Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) has released numbers of quantum index of the Large Scale Manufacturing Industries (LSMI) for 6MFY18-19. The overall output of LSMI fell by 1.5 per cent for July-December 2018 compared to July-December 2017. Similarly, the LSMI output decreased by 10.2 per cent for December 2018 compared to December 2017 and increased by 2.5 per cent if compared to November 2018.   Production in July-December 2018 as compared to July-December 2017 has significantly decreas...