Brazil's cement market contracts in September
Brazilian total cement sales declined by 3.8 per cent YoY to 5.5Mt, according to the country’s cement association, SNIC. Per working day, sales fell by 3.5 per cent YoY to 238,0...
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Argentina’s cement consumption up 9% in September
Argentina’s cement market expanded 9.2 per cent YoY but contracted 1.1 per cent MoM to 1,212,814t in September 2022, according to the country’s cement association, AFCP. Domesti...
CEMEX Colombia and BBVA form Vertua customer alliance
CEMEX Colombia and BBVA in Colombia have formed an alliance that will allow the company's customers to access a sustainable line of credit with the bank to extend the payment te...
Menzel Elektromotoren carries out crane motor order
Menzel Elektromotoren has manufactured four crane motors with the exact electrical and mechanical interfacing positions of a make that is no longer available today for a cement ...
Colombian grey cement market expands 8% in August
Grey cement consumption in Colombia grew by 8.4 per cent YoY in August 2022 to 1.19Mt from 1.098Mt, according to the country’s statistics office, DANE. Of this total, bulk shipm...
Peru’s cement market expands 3% in August
Cement dispatches in Peru edged up by three per cent YoY to 1.227Mt in August 2022 when compared with 1.192Mt dispatched in August 2021, according to the country’s cement associ...
CBB reports 74% drop in net profit
Chilean cement producer Cementos Bío-Bío (CBB) saw a 15.3 per cent increase in sales to CLP155,089m in the first half of 2022 when compared with the CLP134,538m reported for the...
August sales remain stable in Brazil
Domestic cement sales in Brazil edged up 0.1 per cent to 5.866Mt in August 2022 from 5.858Mt in August 2021, according to the country’s cement association, SNIC. The association...
Cemento Polpaico reports 17% rise in 1H revenues, 1H profits are down
Cemento Polpaico SA reported revenues of CLP178.053bn (US$201.8m) in the January-June 2022 period, up 16.9 per cent when compared with CLP152.376bn in the January-June 2021. The...
Venezuelan cement industry operates 40% capacity
The cement industry in Venezuela is operating at 40 per cent of its installed capacity, according to Orlando Chirinos, president of the Cement Workers Federation (Fetracemento)....