Industria Nacional de Cemento sees 39% increase in sales in 2024
Paraguay’s Industria Nacional de Cement (INC) sold 12,105,570m bags of cement in 2024, up 39 per cent YoY when compared with sales in 2023. The level enabled the state-owned com...
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Construction sector crisis pushes Melón to 2024 loss
Chilean cement producer Cemento Melón , owned by the Peru-based Brescia group, posted revenues of CLP249.794bn (US$264.9m), up 3.3 per cent YoY, in 2024. The increase was suppor...
Brazilian cement demand up 5% in January 2025
Cement consumption in Brazil saw a 5.4 per cent increase in January 2025 as SNIC, the country's cement association, reported domestic sales of 5.174Mt, compared with 4.911Mt in ...
Cementos Pacasmayo sees improved 4Q net income
Peru-based Cementos Pacasmayo reported an uptick in of 2.6 per cent in sales volumes of cement, concrete and precast in the fourth quarter of 2024, supported by improved bagged ...
Brazil market expands 4% in 2024
Cement sales in Brazil increased by 2.9 per cent to 4.686Mt in December 2024 from 4.555Mt in December 2023, reports the country's cement association, SNIC. Sales volumes in Braz...
Argentina's cement market expands 8% in January
Argentina's cement demand increased by 8.4 per cent YoY to 831,703t in January 2025 from 767,263t in January 2024, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. Of this t...
Peruvian cement market remains stable in 2024
Domestic dispatches in Peru edged up by 0.1 per cent YoY to 0.967Mt in December 2024, according to the country's cement association, ASOCEM. Of this total, 0.897Mt were supplied...
Argentina's producers caught in public works collapse
The Argentinian cement market is bracing itself for another difficult year. The bottom of the market is predicted to fall through completely in 2025 after a hazardous 2024 when ...
Calcined clay cements: a Brazilian case study Premium
Cements made with calcined clay have been receiving a great deal of attention as a sustainable way to reduce the CO2 emissions from cement production. As blastfurnace slag and f...
Argentina's cement producers faced challenging 2024
Cement consumption in Argentina fell by 5.6 per cent YoY and 12.1 per cent MoM to 764,935t in December 2024 when from 810,343t and 870,090t, respectively, according to data publ...