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Cuban cement output declines

13 February 2025

Cuba: Cement production fell to 258,000t in 2024, representing only 10% of the country’s installed capacity, according to the OSDE Group of Business Construction Materials. President Reynolds Ramírez Vigaud attributed the decline to energy shortages amid national financial challenges.

The sector's problems date back to 2017, according to CiberCuba, when capacity utilisation was 58%. Despite initiatives such as the first ‘eco-friendly’ cement production in 2018 and the reopening of the Sancti Spíritus cement plant in 2022, the industry has faced logistical issues and plant shutdowns. This has a knock-on effect on the government’s annual housing plan and the inability to meet domestic demand for cement. The government is also prioritising the export of cement to obtain foreign currency, worsening shortages and increasing prices.

New cement plants at Nuevitas and Santiago de Cuba will begin production in 2025.

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Deadly disaster at Cementos Cienfuegos’ Carlos Marx cement plant

30 August 2024

Cuba: A ‘materials spill’ at Cementos Cienfuegos’ Carlos Marx cement plant in Guabairo on 27 August 2024 resulted in the death of one worker and injuries to five others. General manager Ernesto Gálvez said that a filter in the plant’s Kiln 3 collapsed, leading to the spillage of hot material from a hopper. Granma News has reported that Raymundo Narciso Sarría, an employee of contractor Empresa de Construcciones Ingenieras No. 6, died, while one other worker is in a critical condition, two in a serious or very serious condition and two others in a less serious condition.

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Cuban plant supplying oil well cement products

21 April 2023

Cuba: Corporación Cementos Cubanos’ Siguaney plant is supplying oil well cement products for Empresa de Perforación y Reparación de Pozos de Petróleo y Gas (EMPERCAP) and Australia-based Melbana. It has contracts to supply around 300t to both companies for local projects, according to the Prensa Latina news agency. It is also supplying PP-25 and P-35 types of oil well cement to the government.

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Corporación Cementos Cubanos’ Siguaney cement plant resumes production

04 January 2023

Cuba: Corporación Cementos Cubanos’ has resumed production once more at its Siguaney integrated cement plant in Sancti Spíritus Province. The plant was closed for the last seven months of 2022 due to technical issues. Escambray News has reported that plant manager Gonzalo Reina Aguilar said that imported refractory bricks proved crucial to the successful repair operation. Reina Aguilar also noted a ‘better energy situation’ in the country, ensuring the plant of its ‘necessary allocations’ in future.

Corporación Cementos Cubanos hopes that the return of the Siguaney plant to regular operations will help to ease a shortage of cement in Sancti Spíritus and neighbouring Ciego de Ávila.

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Guyanese officials meet Cementos Cienfuegos representatives

29 November 2022

Cuba/Guyana: Guyanese government officials attended a meeting with representatives of Cuba-based Cementos Cienfuegos on 25 November 2022. The Guyana Chronicle newspaper has reported that the Cuban government advised the Guyanese officials of the feasibility of importing Cuban building materials, including cement, into Guyana.

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LafargeHolcim to settle Cuban confiscated property lawsuit

03 June 2021

Cuba: Switzerland-based LafargeHolcim has agreed in principle to settle a US court case regarding alleged trafficking in private property previously confiscated by the Cuban government. The Miami Herald newspaper has reported that the group is preparing to pay the claimant compensation. In the complaint, the plaintiffs had claimed the current market value of the property was an estimated US$270m, plus legal fees, interest and other costs could be involved. An agreement is expected to be reached by late June 2021.

In late 2020 a court in Florida, US accepted a request for damages from LafargeHolcim to over 20 parties from Cuba whose land was nationalised and subsequently had a cement plant built on it. The claim alleged that Switzerland-based Holderbank had held a stake in the partly-state owned Carlos Marx cement plant near Cienfuegos since 2001. Holderbank later became Holcim and then LafargeHolcim. The plaintiffs have been aided by a change in US law allowing Cubans to claim damages in US courts for expropriated property from private companies which profited from them.

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Cementos Cienfuegos’ Carlos Marx cement plant resumes production

28 May 2021

Cuba: Cementos Cienfuegos’ Carlos Marx cement plant in Guabairo resumed production in late May 2021. Production had been suspended since 14 January 2021 due to a lack of petcoke, according to the Sierra Maestra newspaper. Fuel suppliers had been affected by a fuel shortage created by US trade sanctions. Despite the enforced shutdown the plant intends to meet its production target for 2021.

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Corporacion Cementos Cubanos resumes production of grey cement at Siguaney plant

15 April 2021

Cuba: Corporacion Cementos Cubanos’ integrated Siguaney plant has resumed production of grey cement after stopping in late 2020 due to technical problems. The plant is targeting grey cement production of 65,000t in 2021, according to the Escambray newspaper. In 2020 local media reported that the plant produced 87,000t of grey cement and 3000t of white cement. At present the plant has 4000t of white cement in inventory and its annual production target for 2021 is 8000t.

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Cuban cement exports fall sharply in 2020

08 April 2021

Cuba: Cuba’s full-year cement exports totalled 21,200t in 2020, down by 40% year-on-year from 35,200t in 2019. ADN Cuba has reported that the value of exports fell by 45% to US$1.04m from US$1.89m. The vast majority of exported cement went to Colombia. Cuba is currently experiencing domestic shortages of cement.

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Cuban cement shortage affects homebuilders

01 April 2021

Cuba: Citizens have begun buying stolen cement from government construction sites due to a shortage that has caused a price rise on the cement market. The Havana Times has reported that many people are unable to repair their housing due to the high prices. Government and military projects reportedly continue unaffected.

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