Cement News tagged under: cement production
Colombian cement market contracts 5% in May28 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsColombian cement deliveries in May slipped 5.3 per cent YoY in May, totalling 1.129Mt, according to the country’s statistics office, Dane. Output from Colombian cement factories fell 6.4 per cent to 1.057Mt. In the year to date, domestic dispatches remained stable at 5.056Mt while in the June 2015-May 2016 period increased 4.5 per cent to 12.808Mt. |
Indonesia cement demand rises 3% in May28 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsIndonesia’s cement market continues to expand, according to official Indonesian cement industry statistics. In addition, the country is shipping increasing volumes of clinker although cement exports have fallen. In May demand reached 5,133,863t, up three per cent YoY. Cement exports rose 18.3 per cent YoY and clinker exports doubled to 114,000t during the period. Total domestic output reached 5.305Mt, a rise of 5.4 per cent when compared with May 2015. Semen Indonesia, the country’s large... |
Azerbaijan: Cement production drops by 30% in year to May24 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsCement production in Azerbaijan has fallen by 30.3 per cent for the five months to May 2016, Azer press reports. The national statistics committee put the decline in output down to lower public and private sector spending. Production of concrete fell by 60 per cent, to 177,000t. Azerbaijan produced 829,000t of cement in the first five months of the year. Clinker imports also fell by 55 per cent, to 140,500t, with prices remaining unchanged at US$46.60/t. |
Uganda: drop in cement production20 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsAs cement production has decreased and cement prices increased, the construction sector has slowed down. According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) there was a low production of cement between March and April 2016 for "major cement producers in the country", which in turn led to a slump in the construction sector. Tororo Cement and Hima Cement are the largest cement producers in Uganda. The cement industry reported a 14.7 per cent drop in growth as a result of the higher cost pro... |
Colombia's cement market expands 6% in Feb 201631 March 2016, Published under Cement NewsColombia's cement consumption in February rose by 6.1 per cent YoY to 1.046Mt from 0.987Mt the previous year, according to the country's statistics office, DANE. Building companies and contractors supported this rise in particular as they bought 15.2 per cent more cement than in February 2014. Ready-mix companies increased their off take by seven per cent while retail saw a 3.3 per cent advance in volumes. In terms of departments, Atlantic saw the largest rises in demand by 22 per cent,... |
Vietnam's cement output rises 11% YoY in 1Q1629 March 2016, Published under Cement NewsVietnam is estimated to have produced 11Mt of cement in the first quarter of this year, rising one per cent from a year earlier, the government-run General Statistics Office said. In March the country’s cement output is likely to rise 11 per cent from the same month of last year to 6Mt, the office said in a monthly report released Sunday. The office also revised down the country’s cement output in the first two months to 10.4Mt from earlier estimated of 10.8Mt. The Ministry of Constru... |
CEMBUREAU: recovery continues in 3Q1518 December 2015, Published under Cement NewsThe third quarter of 2015 saw no GDP recession anywhere across the EU, according to the European cement association, CEMBUREAU, which published its Quarterly Economic Report for the 3Q15. Moreover, recovery is accelerating in Spain and at moderate levels elsewhere. "However, the macroeconomic picture remains uneven as recovery appears to be uncertain and conditional to many potentially hindering factors, primarily subdued domestic demand in the EU and slowdown in external demand (ie expor... |
Peru: cement sales fall 8.4% in May17 June 2015, Published under Cement NewsCement dispatches in Peru fell by 8.4 per cent YoY in May to 779,000t, reflecting an accelerating contraction of the domestic market, according to cement association Asocem. In April sales decreased 7.1 per cent YoY to 767,000t. Output from Peru’s cement plants dropped 5.7 per cent from 887,000t in May 2014 to 836,000t. In the past 12 months domestic consumption slipped by 0.2 per cent while total output fell by 0.1 per cent. The recent lack of market activity has been attributed to... |
China National Building Materials (CNBM)01 June 2015, Published under Cement NewsFollowing a disappointing month in terms of China’s cement production in March, when volumes fell to 161.39Mt, April 2015 bounced back with production of 208.65Mt. Although this is still on the low side compared to the last 12 months, when monthly production ranged from 204.01Mt (December 2014) to 234.27Mt (May 2014), it will come as welcome news to the country’s leading cement producers such as China National Building Materials (CNBM). CNBM will also be hoping to capitalise on China’s fu... |
China's building materials output falls in 1Q1501 May 2015, Published under Cement NewsOutput of China's building materials sector fell in the first quarter of 2015 as the property market remained weak, the country's top economic planner indicated on Wednesday. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said national cement output was down 3.4 per cent YoY to 428Mt, while flat glass production fell six per cent. Prices of cement and flat glass both dropped in March. Compared with a month earlier, the factory price of cement shed 1.3 per cent, and that of flat... |