Preliminary data and market estimates show that cement sales in Brazil during October reached 6.5Mt, a 4.7 per cent YoY increase from the same period of last year.

Data from local cement association SNIC shows that over the first nine months of the year, sales totalled 58.9Mt, a YoY increase of 2.4 per cent.

For the 12 months between November 2012-October 2013, sales reached 69.7Mt, representing an increase of 2.2 per cent on the comparative period of the previous year.