Holcim’s cement sales in Romania down 0.7% in first six months

Swiss building materials producer Holcim’s cement and clinker sales fell 0.7 percent in the first half of the year in Romania, compared to the first six months of 2012, while the domestic cement prices were up 3.1 percent, according to the company’s latest report. The company’s volume of aggregates sales in H1 2013 dropped by 27.7 percent year-on-year in Romania, while the domestic aggregates prices decreased by an annual 15.8 percent. In Europe, Holcim’s cement and clinker sales went down 1.5 percent in first half of the year, over the same period in 2012, while aggregate sales volume went down 0.2 percent. Holcim is a global company employing some 80,000 people, with production sites in around 70 countries. In Romania, Holcim runs two cement plants in Campulung and Alesd, one grinding station and a cement terminal in Turda, 15 ecological ready-mix stations, three aggregates sites and a cement terminal in Bucharest. Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com (photo source: Holcim)