Local cement sales in the Dominican Republic increased 5.1% in the first six months of 2018 to 2,196,282 tons from 2,089,935 tons in the same time period in 2018, according to the country’s cement association, Adocem. In terms of sales revenues, a 12.9% rise was reported to RD$9.612 billion (US$192.176m) from RD$1.096 billion.
Output from the country’s cement plants rose by 4.8% to 2,738,284 tons in the first six months of this year from 2,612,099 tons in the equivalent period of the previous year. The production volume reflects a capacity utilization rate of 79.1%, an improvement of 3.7 percentage points when compared with last year, reported the online cement industry portal, Cemnet. Around 21.7% of this production volume was exported.
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5 September 2018
