The effect calendar and the good time limit the fall of the consumption of cement to 2,2% in the first quarter of the year

The consumption of cement in Spain has fallen in the first quarter of the year 2,2%, situating in 2.473.648 tonnes. This ralentización in the descent has produced by the positive evolution of the month of March, in which the consumption has brushed the million of tonnes.

Unfortunately, do not find us in front of a backstitch of the market, but in front of two external circumstances that are skewing the data. In the first place, in 2013 the Saint Week celebrated in the month of March, what caused a 'unemployed vacacional' in the works. To this circumstance, besides, joined the climatological factor. According to the State Agency of Meteorology, the month of March of 2013 was one of the rainiest of the history, surpassing the record of precipitations in this same month, that had produced in 1947. This circumstance lastró the consumption and turned it into one of the worst months of March lived along the history by the industry cementera in our country. In 2014, by the contrary, the climatic conditions have been more benign of the usual and have not celebrated remarkable festivities, what has motivated the backstitch.

Nevertheless, if we abide by us the data of consumption in mobile year (last twelve months) the consumption of cement in our country continues with a fall accumulated of 12,9%, and a total volume consumed of 10,9 million tonnes, figure very similar to the reached by the sector to the closing of the exercise 2013. The forecasts of the department of Studies of Oficemen for the total of 2014 continue estimating a fall from among a 7 and 8%.

Remains therefore a lot walk still for visiting so that the sector cementero Spanish between really in the senda of the recovery. “It is necessary to recover the public investment”, explains the general director of Oficemen, Aniceto Saragossa, that adds that “they continue existing a good number of discreet ‘infrastructures' whose state finds very move# away of the European best practices. We refer us to the necks of bottle in the accesses to the big cities, the rail connections with Europe, and the networks of saneamiento and stations of purification of waters in small and average populations, between others”.