Czech Cement

August 25, 2011 — The Editors

Cement production in the Czech Republic has shown signs of a recovery in the first half of 2011. Today’s market size is the estimated total production of cement in Czechoslovakia in 2011.

Geographic reference: Czech Republic
Year: 2011
Market size: 3.3 million metric tons
Source: “Production rise is not the end of Czech tunnel,” Global Cement Weekly, August 24, 2011, page 2, available online here.
Original source: Jan Hrozek, Chairman of the Ceskomoravsky Cement Company
Posted on August 25, 2011

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Cement in China

July 7, 2011 — The Editors

The rise of China as an economic powerhouse has been a significant development in this century so far. Building an economic powerhouse requires building and building requires building materials, one of the oldest of which is cement. China has invested heavily in its cement production capacity, nearly tripling its clinker production capacity between 2000 and 2010 according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Clinker is, in the most basic sense, a coarse form of cement which has yet to be ground down into the fine powdery substance that is cement, the glue that binds all the ingredients of concrete together.

Today’s market size is the size of cement production capacity in China in 2010.

Geographic reference: China
Year: 2010
Market size: 2.41 billion tons
Source: “Chinese Production Statistics for 2010,” Global Cement Weekly, page 1, July 6, 2011.
Original Source: OneStone Research

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Cement

May 11, 2011 — The Editors

Cement Production Graph

A decade plus worth of production data on the cement industry shows a pattern with which we are familiar, the build-up and crash of the housing market. Most of the construction materials industries have seen similar patterns of growth and decline in the 2000s. Early data on 2010 show that sales of cement in that year reached a 27 year low, falling 45% (59 million metric tons) off the high reached in 2005.

The market size presented below is the number of metric tons of portland and masonry cement produced in the United States in 2010 and the approximate value of that cement if shipped from the mill the same year.

Geographic reference: United States
Year: 2010
Market size: 62.8 million metric tons with an approximate value of $5.7 billion
Source: “Cement,” part of an annual series titled Mineral Commodities Summaries, published by the U.S. Geographical Survey and available online here.
Original Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, USGS

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Market for Cement in Brazil

November 19, 2010 — The Editors

Many nations in Latin America have recovered far more quickly from the global downturn that began in 2008 than has the United States. As a basic building material, the demand for cement serves as an indicator of how the construction industry is faring from country to country. Brazil’s construction industry is doing quite well and is forecast to grow sharply over the next five years. The market sizes presented here are based on demand for cement and the figure for 2015 is a forecast by the source.

Geographic reference: Brazil
Year: 2010 and 2015
Market size: 58 Million and 75 Million metric tons respectively
Source: “News North and South America: Brazil forecast to experience big growth,” Global Cement Magazine, November 2010, page 41.

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Cement Market in Thailand

November 18, 2010 — The Editors

Asia has recovered far more quickly from the global downturn that began in 2008 than have the industrialized nations of Europe and the Americas. Complicating matters for the industrialized nations, and in particular the United States, is the nature of the bubble that burst to create the downturn. It was the housing market that was being bet on to inflate the bubble and when that crashed, the overbuilding which took place during the bubble growth period left the construction industry in serious trouble. But, that trouble is not seen everywhere in the world. As a basic building material, the demand for cement serves as an indicator of how the construction industry is faring nation by nation. Thailand has seen healthy growth in the demand for cement in 2010 despite the upheaval caused by flooding in that nation during the late summer.

Geographic reference: Thailand
Year: 2010
Market size: 24 Million metric tons
Source: “News Asia: Siam Cement Group profits down slightly,” Global Cement Magazine, November 2010, page 43.
Original Source: Siam Cement Group

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