Cement output in the first five months of the current calendar year (started on 21 March 2013) continued its upward climb to reach 31.475Mt, information from Iran’s Cement Producers Association showed.

"The figure shows a three per cent increase compared to the same period of the previous year," the IRNA News Agency quoted Abdolreza Sheykhan, an official of the association as saying. Some 30.874Mt of clinker was produced during the same timeframe, also representing a rise of three per cent YoY. 

In the fifth calendar month (July 22 - August 21) stood at 5.82Mt.

Sheykhan noted that around 24.351Mt of the country’s total output served domestic market needs.