German cement deliveries up 4.1% in 2017
Published by Jonathan Rowland,
Editor
World Cement,
German cement shipments were up in 2017, figures from the Association of German Cement Plants (VDZ) have shown. According to the associations, deliveries stood at almost 26.60 million t, a 4.1% increase on the previous year’s total of 25.54 million t.
Growth continued into 2018 with deliveries up 73.2% at 1.30 million t. This compares to just 0.75 million t in January 2017 and comes despite the severe winter weather that hit northern Europe in the first quarter of this year.
Read the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/europe-cis/10092018/german-cement-deliveries-up-41-in-2017/
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