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China: Cement companies produced 220Mt of cement in July 2020, up by 3.6% year-on-year from 230Mt in July 2019. Production was 1.2Bt of cement in the first seven months of 2020, down by 3.5% year-on-year from 1.3Bt in the corresponding period of 2019. Revenues over the period declined by 5.5% to US$74.7bn from US$79.0bn.

Czech Republic: Domestic cement production was 4.57Mt in 2019, up by 3.2% year-on-year from 4.43Mt in 2018. CTK Business News has reported a corresponding increase in domestic sales, up by 1.5% to 3.84Mt from 3.78Mt, and exports, up by 1.9% to 761,000t from 747,000t. Slovakia received 380,000t (50%), Germany received 221,000t (29%), Austria received 114,000t (15%) and Poland received 68,500t (9%). Imports fell by 15% to 490,000t, of which Slovakia supplied 245,000t (50%), Poland supplied 122,000t (25%), Germany supplied 98,000t (20%) and Austria supplied 39,200t (8%).

Vietnam: Cement producers increased the total domestic output of cement by 3.9% year-on-year to 64.2Mt in the first eight months of 2020 from 61.8Mt over the corresponding period of 2019. Continuing at this rate, Vietnam will produce 96.3Mt of cement in 2020, down by 0.2% from 96.5Mt in 2019.

Estonia: Cement producers achieved a total output of 129,000t of cement in the first half of 2020, down by 31% year on year from 187,000t in the first half of 2019. Eesti Statistika has reported that the sharpest decline was in June 2020, by 41% year-on-year to 25,800t from 43,700t. Estonian clinker production ended on 27 March 2020 with the closure of Kunda Nordic Cement’s 0.8Mt/yr integrated Kunda cement plant in Lääne-Viru County.

Turkmenistan: Turkmencement’s Lebap cement plant in Koytendag, Lebap region produced 419,000t of cement over the first seven months of 2020, up by 0.4% from 417,000t over the corresponding period of 2019. Turkmenportal News has reported that the rise is due to the start of addition of porphyritic basalt to the clinker mix.

Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan produced 1.56Mt of cement in the first half of 2020, representing a 2.7% year-on-year decline from 1.60Mt in the half of 2019. Concrete sales increased by 6.5% to 0.83Mt from 0.78Mt, while the total value of construction materials sales fell by 4.8% to US$251m from US$264m.

Uzbekistan: Uzbekqurilishmateriallari deputy chair Ulugbek Abrayev has said that Uzbek cement production capacity will total 20.0Mt/yr before 1 January 2021, up by 60% year-on-year from 12.5Mt at the start of 2020. Abrayev added that, due to growing demand, Uzbekistan will produce 14.5Mt in 2021, corresponding to 73% utilisation of projected capacity. A total of ten cement plant projects across eight of the country’s 12 regions are due for completion in 2020 and 2021.

Russia: Eurocement subsidiary Kavkazcement produced 0.89Mt of cement in the first seven months of 2020, up by 10% year-on-year from the corresponding period of 2019. General director Nikolay Muradov said, “Despite the difficult epidemiological situation in the region and in the country, Kavkazcement ensured the stability of production processes and increased production. This was made possible by product quality control and systematic work aimed at increasing efficiency at all stages of production, introducing advanced technologies and the high-quality servicing of equipment.”

Dominican Republic: Domestic cement production declined by 24% year-on-year to 2.1Mt in the first half of 2020 from 2.8Mt in the first half of 2019, corresponding to 62% capacity utilisation. Domestic consumption over the period also fell, by 20% year-on-year.

Colombia: Cement production fell by 20.8% year-on-year to 4.88Mt in the first half of 2020 from 6.17Mt in the same period in 2019. Data from DANE, the Colombian statistics organisation, shows that local despatches fell at a similar rate. Production in June 2020 dropped by 4.7% year-on-year to 0.98Mt from 1.03Mt in June 2019. Local cement production hit a low in April 2020 when the government imposed coronavirus-related lockdowns.