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The production of plants is still adjusting to the decline in demand
Cement consumption moderating its fall in September and stood at 23.7 %
Source: Oficemen15/10/2009
October 15, 2009
As it has been happening since the beginning of last year, cement consumption has been falling in the month of September compared to the same month of 2008, and with 2.5 million tons the decrease stood at 23.7%. However, it should be noted that for the second consecutive month (the fall in August was 21.2%), the data are less pessimistic than in the same months of previous year, when the declines reached 30.2% in August and 24.7 per cent in September.
What far this year the decline in the consumption of cement is situated at 36.8%, 21.8 million tons, figure slightly better than that experienced in the past twelve months, with a drop of 37.1%.
Since the beginning of the year the drop is almost 34 per cent, to 22.3 million tons
Key figures of the cement sector (tonnes). Monthly data (September).
Accumulated data of the year (January to September).
Data mobile year (from October 2008 to September 2009).
The production of plants is still adjusting to lower demand and last experienced a decrease of 20.2%. Since the beginning of the year the drop is almost 34 per cent, to 22.3 million tons. The same applies to imports from third countries, which descend in the first nine months of this year 69 per cent, with 1.9 million tonnes, almost 9% of domestic consumption.
"Oficemen understand the budgetary adjustment which we have had to bring the economic crisis but we wish that the Ministry of development soon run planned infrastructures to energize the sector of the construction, unquestionable motor of the Spanish economy"explains the business association.
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