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Colombian market expands 4% in June

Colombian market expands 4% in June

Domestic dispatches in Colombia advanced by 3.8 per cent from 0.943Mt in June 2018 to 0.979Mt in June 2019, according to DANE, the country’s statistics office. Bolívar and Meta ...

Vietnamese market stable, exports slip in June

Vietnamese market stable, exports slip in June

Vietnamese cement companies sold 7.497Mt of cement in June 2019, down four per cent YoY and 12 per cent MoM, according to the Vietnam National Cement Association (VNCA). Of this...

Sailing through high seas

Sailing through high seas Premium

Pakistan’s cement producers are sailing through high tides as domestic demand succumbs to macroeconomic pressures, manufacturing costs rise and utilisation levels look set to we...

Cement shipments in USA slip to 9.3Mt

Cement shipments in USA slip to 9.3Mt

Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the USA and Puerto Rico fell to 9.3Mt in May 2019, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The leading consuming states w...

Chile’s cement sales up 6% in May

Chile’s cement sales up 6% in May

Cement dispatches in Chile slipped 0.9 per cent MoM to 345,001t in May 2019, according to the Chilean Chamber of Construction (CChC). However, this represents a YoY increase of ...

Nepal: the road to exports

Nepal: the road to exports Premium

While cement demand in Nepal is forecast to show significant expansion in the future, the rapid build-up of production capacity is outstripping future domestic consumption growt...

Spanish cement market expands 7% in May

Spanish cement market expands 7% in May

Cement consumption in Spain increased 6.6 per cent YoY in May, reaching 1,333,698t, according to Oficemen. In the first five months of 2019, demand for cement advanced 13.7 per ...

Peru’s cement consumption up 4% in June

Peru’s cement consumption up 4% in June

The Peruvian cement market expanded by 4.1 per cent YoY to 0.914Mt in June, according to Asocem, the country’s cement association. However, MoM demand fell by 4.8 per cent. Ceme...

Brazilian cement sales edge up in 1H19

Brazilian cement sales edge up in 1H19

Cement sales in Brazil in January-June 2019 increase 1.5 per cent YoY to 25.8Mt, according to the country’s cement association, SNIC. In June 4.2Mt of cement were sold, down 15....

Cement demand in DR Congo soars to 1.8Mt in 2018

Cement demand in DR Congo soars to 1.8Mt in 2018

Cement consumption in the Democratic Republic of Congo continued to surge in 2018 to 1,825,757t, up has from 881,733t in 2017 and from 229,967t in 2016, according to provisional...