South Africa sales rise by 3% in 2012

South African cement sales edged ahead 2.9 per cent in 2012 to reach 11.6Mt from 11.23Mt the year before, data from the Cement and Concrete Institute (C&CI) shows.

For the final quarter of the year, sales were just over 3Mt, also representing an increase of  2.9 per cent on the same period of 2011 when fourth-quarter sales were 2.944Mt.

The C&CI will be closing down at the end of April, and as such, these are the last set of statistics to be issued by the institute.