Colombia’s local cement dispatch lower in Jan. 2024
Colombia’s local cement dispatch has been this January with 0.891 Mt-4.2% lower than in January last year with 0.930 Mt. This is now the 3rd year that the January dispatch is declining.
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Colombia with minus cement production start into 2024
Colombia started into the new year with a minus of -4,4% in the cement production with 1.001 Mt after 1.048 Mt in January 2023. The minus is the result of a lower cement demand in January.
BTB assits Brazil’s Intercement in strategic alternatives
InterCement Participações informed that during the last few months, the company has received a series of inquiries and expressions of interest in its assets in Brazil and Argentina. The company operates 15 cement plants with 17.2 Mta capacity in Brazil…
Peru’s cement production slightly recovered
In Peru in January 2024 the cement production recovered with 0.924 Mt almost to last year’s level, after the massive annual decline in 2023 by -13.6%.
Holcim to produce calcined clay cements in Mexico
With its strategic investment of USD 55m at its Tabasco cement plant in Macuspana, Holcim Mexico will start for the first time the production of calcined clay cements (LC3) (we reported here 14.02.2024). However, Holcim did not release any information…
Holcim Colombia buys clean power to reduce scope 2
Holcim is committed to the transition towards renewable energies. In Colombia, Holcim uses electrical energy from 100% renewable sources in its Nobsa cement plant (Boyacá) and the Puente Aranda concrete plant (Bogotá). The electricity is purchased from Colombia’s 2nd largest…
Trinidad and Tobago’s cement production slightly up
In 2023, the annual cement production in Trinidad and Tobago slightly increased by +1.7% to 0,719 Mta, after 0.707 Mta. The cement capacity utilization increased to 59.9%.
Mexico’s annual cement production* development
In 2023, in Mexico the annual cement production by the integrated cement plants increased by 1.3% to 41.488 Mta after 40.946 Mta in 2022. * Please note, these data are from the Mexican Statistics Office and only include the production…
Argentina’s cement dispatch started with a huge decline
In 2024 Argentina’s cement dispatch started with a huge -20.0 % decline to 0.773 Mt, after 0.966 Mt last year. The decline is even higher than in the Corona year 2020, when the dispatch declined to -14.3%.
The Dominican cement production stable in 2023
In the Dominican Republic in the period from January to September 2023 to cement production increased by +1.8% to 5.001 Mt, after 4.914 Mt same period in 2022. The 3.Q in saw the largest increase by +4.0%, while in the…