The cement output of the 12 Ukrainian manufacturers, members of local cement producers’ association Ukrcement, totalled 430,800t in January 2006, up just 0.2 pct year-on-year. The Ukrcement enterprises produced some 488,500t of clinker in January 2006, up 12.6 per cent year-on-year, but down 11.6 per cent month-on-month. The Ukrcement companies’ cement output totalled 9.805Mt in 2005, up from 8.89Mt in 2004, and accounted for 80.5 per cent of the total cement output in Ukraine in 2005. Podilsky Cement, Volyn-Cement, Kryvyi Rih Cement and Balcem were among the leaders in terms of cement output in Ukraine in January 2006.