Cement News tagged under: consumption
Preliminary US cement shipments to June 201619 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe US Geological Survey has released preliminary results for the US cement shipments up to June 2016. US deliveries totalled 8,146,984t of ordinary Portland cement (OPC) and blended cements in June, while foreign imports totalled just over 1Mt. The state of Missouri produced the most cement during June with a production of 889,858t, closely followed by California’s 889,133t. Florida saw its production of cement reach 506,593t. For the year up to 30 June 2016, US cement producers manu... |
USA: cement shipments rise 5.1% in May05 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsTotal shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in May 2016 were about 8.2Mt, up by 5.1 per cent from sales in May 2015. The leading producing states for Portland and blended cement sales in May were California, Texas, Missouri, Florida, and Michigan, in descending order, and these states accounted for nearly 40 per cent of the national total. The leading cement-consuming states (Texas, California, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois, in descending order) receiv... |
Ecuador: a challenging recovery03 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsWith severe earthquakes, massive debts and low crude oil prices, Ecuador’s way ahead appears uncertain. The country’s future is dependent on the outcome of the 2017 elections and a recovery in oil prices to get the economy moving again in the right direction under positive leadership. By Rob Roy, ROI Consulting, USA. Ecuador faces an uncertain future, but next year's presidential elections may provide the potential for change Ecuadorian cement consumption is expected to decline ... |
Turkey eyes export markets20 July 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe Turkish cement market appears to be on a course of recovery as the latest data indicates robust growth in the first quarter of 2016. However, to reach healthy capacity utilisation levels, particularly in view of any new capacity to come online, the country’s cement producers will continue to rely on solid export sales, which have seen a fall in recent times. By Turkish Cement Manufacturers’ Association (TÇMB), Turkey. To achieve robust capacity utilisation rates in times ahead, Tu... |
Spain: consumption decreases 2.3% in 1H1612 July 2016, Published under Cement NewsCement sales in Spain slipped by 0.9 per cent to 1,048,116t while for 1H16 they fell 2.3 per cent to 5,525,720t. The continued fall in demand is attributed to the lack of construction in the infrastructure sector with the key housing sector unable to offset the decrease. "The virtual paralysis of public works has been a setback in our forecasts for the end of the year," says Jaime Ruiz de Haro, Oficemen president, adding that "at the end of 2015 we envisioned a scenario with slight growth... |
Spain: cement consumption falls01 July 2016, Published under Cement NewsCement consumption in Spain fell by 7.5 per cent in May, reaching 965,465t, 78,535t less than a year ago and the lowest comparable figure since May 1965, according to the latest figures of Oficemen, the Spanish cement association. During the first five months of the year cement consumption declined by 2.7 per cent YoY to 4.478Mt, 122,792t less than in the same period of 2015. According to Aniceto Zaragoza, CEO of Oficemen, the cement sector is being punished "by the absence of measu... |
Peru cement demand up 1.4% in May16 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsPeru’s cement consumption increased by 1.4 per cent YoY in May, according to the Asociación de Productores de Cemento. Total deliveries, which include exports, increased 1.9 per cent. Production slipped 0.2 per cent when compared with May 2015. “During the fifth month of 2016, cement production fell slightly but national and total dispatches continued to grow,” said the cement association. |
Colombia's market expands 5.9% in April03 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsCement dispatches in Colombia rose 5.9 per cent to 1.05Mt in April 2015, according to the country’s statistics office, Dane. Cement production in April reached 1.1Mt, up five per cent YoY and the highest output for April in the past eight years. By region, the department of Córdoba saw the highest increase in cement demand at 27.8 per cent, followed by Risaralda, with 20.8 per cent. Antioquia was reporting a variation of 9.5 per cent. Bolivar and Cesar recorded falls of 17.4 and 18.5 ... |
Italy: Consolidation needed as consumption forecast to remain depressed27 May 2016, Published under Cement NewsWith the European Commission having this week given the go-ahead to HeidelbergCement’s acquisition of Italcementi, Italy’s largest cement producer is set to become even less dependent upon what was until now its home market. Since 2007 Italcementi's domestic market has contracted from a peak consumption of 46.4Mt nine years ago to 19.6Mt in 2015, with demand predicted to be flat in 2016. The Italian cement producers’ association, AITEC, predicts that consumption will remain below 23Mt until ... |
Spain: April cement demand contracts 3.3%23 May 2016, Published under Cement NewsCement consumption in Spain fell 3.3 per cent YoY in April, slipping to 946,329t, according to Oficemen. The latest data bring the figures for the first four months of 2016 to 3,512,140t, reflecting a decrease of 1.2 per cent YoY. Oficemen attributes the decline particularly to public works, which, according Oficemen’s director general, Aniceto Zaragoza, "is being much worse than expected and does not correspond to the approved by government budgets, which means there is a slowdown of... |