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Argentina: Cement despatches in August 2025 totalled 0.89Mt, down by 0.4% year-on-year from August 2024, according to the AFCP. Volumes fell by 0.2% month-on-month.

However, cumulative despatches from January to August 2025 reached 6.59Mt, an 8% increase from 6.08Mt in the same period of 2024. Cement imports in August 2025 stood at 298t, taking the year-to-date total to 1597t.

Kenya: Cement production rose by 17% year-on-year to 4.85Mt in the first half of 2025 from 4.14Mt in the same period of 2024, according to The Kenyan Wall Street newspaper. Monthly output surpassed 0.8Mt consistently from March to June 2025, the first four-month streak above that level since July to November 2023. May 2025 was the strongest month, with 0.85Mt produced.

Cement consumption grew by 22% to 4.76Mt in the first half of 2025 from 3.90Mt in 2024. Consumption peaked in May 2025 at 0.83Mt, the highest monthly level since August 2023, supported by housing, infrastructure and commercial construction demand.

Morocco: Cement deliveries by members of the Professional Association of Cement Manufacturers (APC) reached 9.6Mt by the end of August 2025, up by 10% from 8.7Mt in the same period in 2024, according to the Ministry of National Territorial Planning, Urban Planning, Housing and Urban Policy.

In August 2025, APC members delivered 1.3Mt of cement, a 7% rise from 1.2Mt in 2024. APC members include Asment Temara, Ciments de l’Atlas, Ciments du Maroc, LafargeHolcim Maroc and Novacim.

Dominican Republic: Cement and clinker exports totalled US$72.5m in the first half of 2025, a 37% rise year-on-year, according to cement exporter Despradel & Asociados (DASA) and the Dominican Association of Portland Cement Producers (Adocem). Haiti was the main market, with US$39.6m of exports, followed by Jamaica (US$9.4m), Guyana (US$8.3m), Turks and Caicos Islands (US$6.0m), Suriname (US$2.3m) and the US (US$1.2m).

Pakistan: Cement despatches, including exports, reached 3.85Mt in August 2025, a 12% year-on-year increase from 3.42Mt in August 2024, according to the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA). Local despatches grew by 10% to 3.10Mt from 28Mt, while exports rose by 22% to 0.75Mt from 0.6Mt previously.

In the first two months of the 2025–26 financial year, total despatches rose by 21% to 7.85Mt from 6.49Mt a year earlier. Domestic despatches grew by 14% to 6.09Mt, while exports climbed by 51% to 1.76Mt.

The APCMA noted that August growth was slower than in July 2025, when domestic despatches rose by 19% and exports rose by 84% year-on-year.

Bolivia: Cement production was 325,068t in June 2025, down by 4% month-on-month from 338,536t in May 2025 and by 2% year-on-year from 331,854t in June 2024, according to the Institute of National Statistics (INE). La Paz led output with 98,290t, followed by Santa Cruz with 90,385t. In the first half of 2025, cement production reached 1.9Mt.

Cement sales fell to 306,714t in June 2025, a 20% fall from 381,160t in May 2025 and down by 4% from 319,041t in June 2024. In the first half of 2025, sales declined by 1% year-on-year to 1.88Mt from 1.91Mt in the first half of 2024.

Portugal: Cement consumption reached 1.97Mt in the first half of 2025, down by 2.2% year-on-year, according to the construction industry association AICCOPN. In the same period, permits issued for construction and rehabilitation of residential buildings rose by 14% to 10,262. The number of licensed new housing units saw a ‘significant increase’ of 26%, totalling 20,613 new dwellings.

India: Local industry and the construction sector generated 340Mt of fly ash in the 2024 – 25 financial year, of which 333Mt was utilised across infrastructure and industrial sectors, according to the Economic Times. The figures showed that 27% of the total fly ash generated was used in the cement industry. Government policy mandates fly ash use in cement and other building materials.

Thailand: Domestic cement sales are expected to decline by 5.5% year-on-year to 34.7Mt in 2025 due to a contraction in private construction, particularly new housing projects, according to local press. In the first quarter of 2025, sales rose by 9.6% to 8.8Mt. Government projects will continue to expand but at a slower pace than in 2024, which is reportedly insufficient to offset weaker private demand. Political uncertainty may delay the 2026 budget and new project bidding, which could impact demand for government construction projects from late 2025 into 2026.

El Salvador: Data from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR) showed apparent cement consumption rose by 30% year-on-year in May 2025 to 4.8m 42.5kg bags, from 3.7m bags in May 2024, according to local press. The figure was the country’s highest monthly consumption in five years. Consumption from January to May 2025 reached 21.4m bags, up by 17% year-on-year from 18.4m bags in the same period of 2024.

From January to June 2025, imports of hydraulic cement totalled 0.3Mt, worth US$26m, up by 41% year-on-year from 0.21Mt in the same period of 2024. Guatemala was the leading supplier at US$12.7m, followed by Vietnam (US$6.6m), Japan (US$2.8m), Honduras (US$1.4m) and China (US$1.3m).