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Peru's cement demand up 14% in April16 May 2018, Published under Cement NewsPeru’s cement market expanded by 13.5 per cent YoY in April 2018 as cement deliveries reached 0.817Mt, according to the latest data from the country’s cement association, Asocem. When compared with the previous month when 0.816Mt was dispatched, a more stable picture emerges. Deliveries by domestic producers rose by 8.6 per cent YoY in April 2018 as they reached 0.759Mt. However, when compared with the previous month, such dispatches slipped one per cent from 0.767Mt. Domestic supply w... |
Spanish cement demand growth decelerates15 May 2018, Published under Cement NewsCement demand in Spain saw its growth slow to 7.6 per cent in March 2018, when compared with the previous month, according Oficemen’s Cement Demand Index (IDC). For the rolling year, from April 2017 to March 2018, consumption rose to 12.4Mt, an increase of 0.9Mt when compared with the same period in the previous year. While the latest market expansion represents 13 months of growth, the March data point to a strong deceleration of growth. Oficemen has attributed this slowdown to the effe... |
Argentina demand up 14% YoY11 May 2018, Published under Cement NewsArgentina’s cement market expanded by 13.5 per cent in April to 958,241t when compared with April 2017, but fell 12.2 per cent MoM, according to the country’s cement producers’ association, AFCP.This demand was met by 953,081t of domestic output and 5160t of imports. Argentine producers saw total dispatches decline by 11.3 per cent MoM, but YoY deliveries, which include exports, advanced by 13.3 per cent to 957,981t. Exports reached 4900t. In the first four months of 2018, the country... |
Imbalances yet to surface in Trump’s US economy09 May 2018, Published under Cement NewsICR took a moment to talk to Ed Sullivan, Portland Cement Association’s vice president and chief economist of Market Intelligence, to understand more about how the US economy is faring and what factors might yet cause a brake on cement demand going forward. Figure 1: impact of different outcomes of the tariff issue on the economy and cement sector ICR: What is the current PCA forecast for economic growth in the USA in 2018-19? Ed Sullivan (ES) : Good, very good. We are well in... |
Going to Graceland02 May 2018, Published under Cement NewsThe 2018 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Industry Technical Conference will be held between 6-10 May in Nashville, Tennessee. Therefore, the timing is right for ICR to visit Graceland and examine the recent developments in the nearby southern US cement markets. By Rob Roy Economic Consulting, USA. Lehigh Portland Cement Co’s 3.5Mta plant in Union Bridge is one of Maryland’s two integrated cement facilities and the country’s second-largest after LafargeHolcim’s Ste Genevieve works, Missouri ... |
Colombia's cement market contracts 10% in March01 May 2018, Published under Cement NewsCement deliveries in the Colombian cement market fell 9.9 per cent YoY to 976,300t in March, according to the country’s national statistics office, DANE. Around 68 per cent, or 668,700t of this total was supplied as bagged cement with a further 307,600t as bulk product. Deliveries to the country’s largest market, Bogotá, declined by 9.9 per cent while the key markets of Antioquia and Cundinamarca also reported significant decreases of 10.4 and 17 per cent, respectively. Further drops were... |
Sibirskiy Cement production stable in 1Q1830 April 2018, Published under Cement NewsRussia’s Sibirskiy Cement produced 473,500t of cement in January-March 2018, maintaining a stable output when compared with the equivalent period of the previous year, according to Esmerk Russian News. Topkinskiy Cement produced 320,100t of cement, Krasnoyarsk Cement 126,800t and Timluysky Cement 26,500t. Analysts reported that cement demand in Siberia fell 2.6 per cent YoY to 670,000t in the first quarter of 2018. Gennadiy Rasskazov, first vice-president of Sibirskiy Cement, expects a... |
CIROM: Romanian cement market growth muted at 2%24 April 2018, Published under Cement NewsRomania’s cement association, CIROM, expects the country’s cement market to show only modest growth in 2018. "We are not very optimistic about the cement market in 2018. We estimate an increase of about two per cent, because the non-residential works are few and the infrastructure, if some of the work is done is good," says Mihai Rohan, president of CIROM. In 2017 Romania’s cement demand expanded by 6.6 per cent to 8.4Mt. The country has seven cement plants, operated by Holcim, Heidelb... |
Cemex: Mexican cement market to grow 3% in 201824 April 2018, Published under Cement NewsMexico’s cement market is forecast to grow by 2-3 per cent, according to Cemex CEO, Fernando González. While construction of housing is expected to advance only modestly, the commercial and industrial building segments are envisaged to show sufficient growth. Infrastructure will also account for 25 per cent of cement offtake. “I wish we could do much more in infrastructure. I think that what is possible is usually invested as a function of the government programs and the works are pro... |
Russia’s new dawn23 April 2018, Published under Cement NewsGrowing construction activity, a recovering economy and stabilising cement production – 2017 marks something of a turn-around year for Russia after years of recession. But the situation is still fragile with much of the economic growth fuelled by oil prices, which remain volatile, and construction increasing in less obvious sectors such as agriculture and healthcare. By Alexey Semenov, GS-Expert LLC, Russia, and ICR Research, UK. Russia’s economic recovery and increase in construction... |