Brazil extends its recovery in spite of pandemic
Brazil's cement market has seen a dramatic change in recent years with growth leading to a record production of 72.5Mt in 2014. However, this was followed by the country's bigg...
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Argentina’s cement market expands 13% in October
Argentina’s cement consumption picked up by 12.7 per cent YoY in October 2020 as it increased to 1,070,118t (October 2019: 948,931t), according to the country’s cement associat...
Colombian cement consumption up 5% in September
Cement dispatches in Colombia increased to 1.131Mt in September 2020, up 4.9 per cent from 1.078Mt in September 2019, according to DANE, the national statistics office. Outpu...
Chilean market contraction slows in 3Q
Chilean cement dispatches fell 13 per cent to 868,487t in July-September 2020 from 998,291t in the 3Q19, according to the country’s chamber of construction, CChC. The latest da...
Cementos Pacasmayo sees EBITDA rise 8% in 3Q
Peru's Cementos Pacasmayo saw its sales volume of cement, concrete and precast rise 14.2 per cent YoY to 819,700t in the third quarter of 2020, reaching historical record level...
Cemex exported 9% of Mexican output in 2019
Cemex exported nine per cent of its Mexican cement sales in 2019. according to CE NAFTA 2.0. The company’s data show that 67 per cent of exports were delivered to US customers ...
Cement price in Paraguay continues to rise
A cement shortage in Paraguay has resulted in another price rise. Bulk CCPII F40 cement, sold by Yguazu Cementos, used in the production of industrial concrete, has seen a 10.7...
CSN reports cement revenues of BRL259m in 3Q20
Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (CSN) reported 3Q20 results for its cement division with net revenue of BRL259m (US$46.2m), up 50 per cent QoQ due to higher sales volumes, whic...
Briones sisters sell Bío Bío stake to Gloria Group
Anita and Loreto Briones Goich of ALB SpA have sold their entire 19 per cent stake in Cementos Bío Bío, the cement company founded by their father, Hernán Briones Gorostiaga in...
INC raises cement price
Paraguayan cement producer INC has increased the price of a bag of cement by PYG2500 (US$0.42). The company is now selling cement for PYG39,800/bag. The company has attribute...