Upward trend in Ecuadorian sales continue

Domestic cement sales on the Ecuadorian market in the first four months of 2013 rose by 14.2 per cent YoY while April sales alone surpassed 500,000t.

Latest data from the country's cement association INECYC shows that dispatches for the three months to the end of April 2013 reached 2.03Mt compared to 1.79Mt in the same period of last year.

In April 2013 alone, sales rose to 545,440t, representing a 25.7 per cent increase on the 433,784t recorded in April 2012. On a sequential basis, April 2013 sales were 9.1 per cent higher compared to March's 499,742t.