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It accelerates the fall of the consumption of cement with 28,4% in October
16/11/2011
16 November 2011
The month of October has been the worst in 27 years with a consumption of cement of 1,5 million tonnes. Like consequence of this same tendency, the production of cement has diminished 21,5% with regard to the same month of 2010 reaching the 1,8 million tonnes. With regard to the accumulated of the year, have consumed 17,7 million tonnes, 15,6% less than in the 10 first of 2010. Only the exports achieve to keep in similar figures to the ones of the past exercise, whereas the imports reduce 37,8% with near of 1 million of tonnes until October. According to words of the general director of Oficemen, Saragossa, “is urgent that the Government that go out of the urns revise the cuts that the Plan of Stability has established in obra public for the next years and boost performances to facilitate the purchase of house. It is the moment to generate employment, no of rlo And know that by each million of euros that recorta in infraestructuras destroy 18 places of work”.
