This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at El consumo de cemento en Cataluña cae en febrero un 43%
The consumption of cement in Catalonia falls in February, a 43 %
12/03/2009
March 12, 2009
The consumption of cement in Catalonia experienced another major decline during the month of February. According to the latest figures from the Catalan producers, collected in 'Monthly progress of production and sales' Association ciment català, this month the market used 371.650 tons of material, 42.8 per cent less than the same month of 2008. In this way, the fall in the consumption of the cement during the past 12 months already is 29.7% compared to the previous period. For its part, the production of this material was also reduced in February in a meaningful way (43.1%), pushing the annual figure to a decline of 34.3%.
To deal with the situation, companies trust that the institutions use effectively to develop counter-cyclical public investment strategies. Its implementation should be helpful to provide the country's infrastructure needs to face the future with guarantees and maintain the competitiveness of its economic fabric.
The implementation of these measures would contribute decisively to improve rates of activity of the sector, very affected by the crisis affecting the residential construction sector today.
