Cement production in CR grows by 21 pct in H1.

(From Czech News Agency)

Prague, July 31 (CTK) - Cement production grew by 21 percent year-on-year to 1.7 million tonnes in the first half of this year and its consumption rose by 11 percent to 1.4 million tonnes, according to the latest data of the Czech Cement Producers Association. Ceskomoravsky cement company board chairman Jan Hrozek, however, said he did not see many reasons to be optimistic. According to him, the figures mean just a slowdown of the steep fall of construction output that occured in the previous years. "Comparing cement consumption in the first half of 2009, when the …