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Adelaide Brighton predicts 2015 sales gain

28 May 2015, Published under Cement News

Australian construction materials group Adelaide Brighton says cement and clinker product sales volumes should be "similar to or greater than" levels in the prior year. Lime sales, which declined 7.7 per cent in 2014 after a downturn in the gold sector, were also anticipated to be similar or slightly higher than last year. The group told shareholders at today's annual general meeting that after last year's acquisitions, Adelaide Brighton was expecting to book around $4.4m worth of syn...

Vicem monthly sales down 3.1% YoY

20 May 2015, Published under Cement News

State-owned Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem), the country’s leading cement producer, said it sold about 2.24Mt of cement and clinker in April, down 3.1 per cent from a year ago. Of the volume, 1.74Mt of cement and clinker were sold in domestic market while 450,000t were exported. In the first four months, Vicem’s cement and clinker sales declined 4.9 per cent YoY to 7.38Mt. Of the total, 5.88Mt of cement and clinker were sold in domestic market, up 4.7 per cent YoY while 1.5Mt we...

Ecuador sees decline in monthly sales

14 May 2015, Published under Cement News

Ecuador cement sales declined fell to 468,432t compared to 504,682t in the month before, latest data from domestic cement association Inecyc reveals. The decline follows a 15.68 per cent MoM increase in March. Cumulative sales over the first four months of 2015 reached 1.913Mt, the statistics show.

Philippine first-quarter cement sales up 9.6%

30 April 2015, Published under Cement News

Philippine cement sales grew 9.6 per cent in the first quarter from a year ago to 5.7Mt, latest statistics from the Cement Manufacturers Association of the Philippines (CeMAP) show. Growth was attributed to demand from projects being undertaken by the public and private sectors. CeMAP president Ernesto Ordoñez said  public sector spending, particularly that of the Department of Public Works and Highways increased. Private sector spending also improved because of growing confidence in the...

Ecuador first-quarter sales at 1.4Mt

27 April 2015, Published under Cement News

Ecuador cement sales in the first three months of 2015 reached 1.427Mt, latest data from local association Instituto Ecuatoriano del Cemento y del Hormigon shows. In March alone, sales were 504,682t, up 15.67 per cent compared to the February 2015 figure of 436,287t.

SPC upbeat on outlook for Polish cement sales

15 April 2015, Published under Cement News

Polish cement producers sold nearly 2.7Mt of cement in the first quarter of this year, up 3.4 per cent YoY, with further growth anticipated in 2015 and beyond. "We expect that in 2015 we will record an increase in cement sales YoY," Jan Deja, director of Polish cement association Stowarzyszenie Producentów Cementu (SPC) told PAP Market Insider. "We expect a 5-6 per cent growth and a result at the level of some 16Mt. "By 2018, I believe the economic situation will allow us to record cement...

Semen Padang posts 1Q sales decline, Indonesia

14 April 2015, Published under Cement News

PT Semen Padang, part of the Semen Indonesia group of companies, reported a 6.8 per cent decrease in sales volumes in the first quarter of this year to 1.5Mt. "The poor sales of cement were attributed to the sluggish domestic demand," said Semen Padang president director Benny Wendry told local press on Monday. However, the company does not intend to rein in production levels and maintains its target of 7.6Mt, according to Wendry. It plans to offset the slump in domestic sales by stepping...

Saudi cement sales see annual gains

09 April 2015, Published under Cement News

Saudi cement sales for the month of February 2015 were 6.5 per cent higher than in February 2013 and 9.7 per cent higher than February 2014 when the market was impacted by a labour shortage caused by a government immigration crackdown, according to new research from NCB Capital. Sales were 3.3 per cent lower than in January 2015, but this was due to the shorter working month. NCB Capital said the increase was led by smaller players in the market like Najran Cement and Aljouf, who are co...

Pakistan nine-month shipments up 4%

09 April 2015, Published under Cement News

Pakistan cement dispatches increased by four per cent to 25.65Mt in the first nine months of the current fiscal compared to 24.78Mt in the same period of the previous year, according to data released by the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA). Local dispatches increased by eight per cent YoY to 20.22Mt in 9MFY15  compared to 18.76Mt in same period of last year. However, cement exports were down by 10 per cent YoY and reached at 5.43Mt in 9MFY15 from 6.02Mt in 9MFY14. ...

Ecuador monthly sales down 10.3%

02 April 2015, Published under Cement News

Cement sales in Ecuador in February 2015 were 0.436t, down 10.3 per cent compared to 0.486Mt recorded in January 2015. For the first two months of this year, accumulated sales totalled 0.922Mt, latest information from Instituto Ecuatoriano Del Cemento Y Del Hormigon shows. Total sales last year came in at around 6.45Mt, up from 6.3Mt the previous year.