Colombian cement consumption declines 8% in March
Cement dispatches in Colombia fell 7.5 per cent YoY to 1.163Mt in March 2023 from 1.257Mt in March 2022, according to national statistics agency, DANE. While deliveries of bu...
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Andrés Segú Undurraga resigns from Polpaico Board
Andrés Segú Undurraga has resigned from his position as director of Cemento Polpaico SA, Chile. His respective alternative director, José Tomás Edwards Alcalde, also resigned o...
Peru’s cement market contracts 17% in March
Cement consumption in Peru declined by 17 per cent to 0.958Mt in March 2023 when compared with March 2022 when dispatches reached 1.151Mt, according to the country’s cement ass...
CBB to implement a new AF project at Teno
CBB and Ambipar Environment’s general managers announced the implementation of a project that will enable the cement producer to recover energy from non-recyclable waste at C...
Cement sales in Brazil decline 2% in March
Brazil’s cement market contracted by two per cent to 5.398Mt in March 2023 from 5.507Mt in March 2022, according to the country’s cement association, SNIC. The association attr...
Chile’s cement dispatches down 10% in January-February 2023
Cement dispatches in Chile fell by 9.5 per cent to 288,761t in February 2023 from 309,297t in February 2022, according to the country’s construction chamber, CChC. In the firs...
Argentine cement consumption up 6% in March
Argentina’s cement market expanded by 6.4 per cent in March 2023 as 1,114,722t of cement were supplied, compared to 1,047,227t in March 2022, according to the country’s cement ...
Cement demand in Colombia falls 4% in February
Cement consumption in Colombia fell by 4.4 per cent YoY to 1.058Mt in February 2023 from 1.107Mt, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. Of this total, bagged ceme...
Peruvian cement market contracts 17% in February
Cement demand in Peru fell by 17 per cent YoY to 0.883Mt in February 2023 from 1.068Mt in the year-ago period, according to the country’s cement association, Asocem. Of this to...
Ecebol plant expected to start up in June
Bolivia’s Empresa Pública de Cemento (Ecebol) expects to commission its new Potosí plant in June with the project currently 92 per cent complete and a budget execution of 85 ...