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:: Monday, May 10, 2004 ::
Cement buyers hit with hard times By Valerie Miller, Las Vegas Business Press
Southern Nevada's cement is brought in from Southern California, Utah and, sometimes, Oregon. Some of that cement has been imported to California from overseas. Warren says the cement shortage is being caused by a perfect storm of events, including a decrease in imports from Pacific Rim countries in Asia, booming economies worldwide, power problems in California, increased shipping costs and problems with delays on the railroads.
Part of the problem is that the Pacific Rim nations of China and Thailand produce a huge amount of the world's cement, but are now using more of it at home as opposed to exporting it, he explains.
'China produces ten times the amount of cement [powder] as the U.S.,' Warren says. 'The U.S. produces eighty to eighty-five million tons of cement per year. China produces seven hundred million tons and exports about forty million tons ... China has cut their exports by fifty percent.'------------------------------------------- posted 6:41 AM :: reference link ::
