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Peru: Cement and clinker production fell by 14% year-on-year to 9.14Mt and 39% year-on-year to 5.54Mt respectively in 2020. Data from the Association of Cement Producers (ASOCEM) shows that production fell significantly during March to May 2020 at the same time as a coronavirus-related lockdown. However, ASOCEM reports that cement sales from August to December 2020 were higher than the historical monthly averages. Exports of cement and clinker fell by 28% to 0.14Mt and 56% to 0.31Mt. Imports of cement decreased by 7% to 0.72Mt but clinker imports grew by 7% to 0.67Mt.

Switzerland: CemSuisse, the Swiss cement association, says that cement deliveries fell by 1.5% year-on-year to 4.15Mt in 2020. Deliveries remained stable in the first quarter before falling by 3.3% year-on-year in the second quarter at the same time of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. They subsequently recovered to a small increase in the third quarter before falling by 3.1% year-on-year in the fourth.

Argentina: Data from the Asociación de Fabricantes de Cemento Portland (AFCP) shows that cement shipments fell by 11.1% year-on-year to 9.87Mt in 2020 from 11.1Mt in 2019. They fell significantly in the first half of the year but subsequently recovered. Overall shipments - including local sales, imports and exports – last rose in 2017. Despite this, exports rose by 31% to 0.13Mt in 2020 from 0.10Mt in 2019.

Brazil: Cement producers sold 60Mt of cement in 2020, up by 11% year-on-year. The Valor Econômico newspaper has reported that residential and commercial renovations and new projects contributed to the increase. The National Cement Industry Association (SNIC) has forecast that growth will not exceed 1% in 2021. It said that this will be due to an economic downturn and the end of the government’s emergency aid programme.

Algeria: Groupe des Ciments d'Algérie (GICA) subsidiaries Société des Ciments de Hamma Bouziane (SCHB) and Société des Ciments de Ain El Kebira (SCAEK) are planning to export 50,000t of cement to West Africa. The L’Expression newspaper has reported that SCHB will supply 35,000t of the cement, and SCAEK will supply the remainder. SCHB produced 0.8Mt of cement in 2020.

Pakistan: Cement dispatches in the first half of the 2021 financial year were 29Mt, up by 16% year-on-year from 25Mt in the first half of the 2020 financial year. The Pakistan Observer has reported that the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturing Association (APCMA) recorded an 11% year-on-year rise in December 2020 dispatches to 4.8Mt from 4.3Mt. Exports for the half were 5.0Mt, up by 15% from 4.4Mt.

China: Companies increased total cement production in the first 11 months of 2020 by 1% year-on-year to 2.16Bnt from 2.14Bnt in the first 11 months of 2019. Xinhua News Agency has reported that estimated total building materials sector operating revenues rose by 1% to US$700bn. The sector’s estimated profit for the period rose by 3% to US$61.9bn.

Spain: The Spanish cement association Oficemen has targeted a 43% emissions drop by 2030 across its entire value chain compared to 1990 levels. The objective has been published as part of the association’s sustainability roadmap to 2050. It is a tightening of the previous target of 27% by 2030. Oficemen intends to meet the tougher reduction by using the so-called 5C approach - clinker, cement, concrete, construction and built environment, and (re)carbonation – as detailed by Cembureau, the European Cement Association. Oficemen also revealed that it is working with the Spanish Technological Platform for CO₂ (PTECO₂) on identifying potential locations for storing captured CO₂. Hugo Morán, Secretary of State for the Environment, participated remotely with the launch event.

Oficemen also reports that Spanish cement consumption fell by 12% year-on-year to 12.2Mt in the first 11 months of 2020. Exports declined by 5%.

Tajikistan: Cement producers recorded total production volumes of 3.95Mt in the first 11 months of 2020, up by under 1% year-on-year. Tajikistan Newsline has reported that in 2019 the country produced 4.2Mt of cement and exported 1.5Mt, worth US$68m. The country has an estimated production capacity of 4.7Mt/yr.

Turkey: Total cement exports raised nearly US$1bn in revenue in 2020. Tamer Saka, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Turk Cement, told the Anadolu Agency that the country exported 30Mt in 2020 making it the world’s second largest cement exporter. He added that the local sector has a production capacity of 100Mt/yr. "The sector has been selling cement to important big projects in the US and they prefer Turkey because of both price and quality,” said Saka.