Over the years the population is growing throughout the world, as it is rising the commercial building as well as the need for place to live is also increasing. The cement manufacturing industry coupled with the construction market and both are rising. There are many investments done by the government to raise the construction market which will led to GDP growth.
Market Scope and Structure Analysis
Cement is mainly used or binding materials for construction purpose. there are many materials like shale, clay, slate, chalk, silica sand, iron ore and blast furnace slag, are heated at high temperatures to form a rock-like substance that is grounded into fine powder to form cement.
Cement can be bifurcated into two kinds: hydraulic and non-hydraulic. Hydraulic cement sets due to the chemical reaction between water and the dry ingredients where as non-hydraulic cement offers optimal resistance against chemicals by reacting with the carbon dioxide in the environment.
COVID-19 Impact analysis
- COVID-19 pandemic has shut-down large number construction sites, power plants, technology advancement companies and others. This has hampered the growth of cement manufacturing market from the last few months and is likely to continue during 2021.
- COVID-19 has already affected the sale of cement. In the first quarter of 2021 and is anticipated to cause a negative impact on the market growth throughout the year.
- The major demand for cement was previously noticed from giant manufacturing countries including the U.S., Germany, Italy, UK, and China, which are negatively affected by the spread of the coronavirus, thereby declining the demand of cement.
- Further, potential impact of the lockdown is currently vague and financial recovery of companies is totally based on its cash reserves. Key players of cement manufacturing market are expected to afford a full lockdown only for a few months, after which the players have to modify their investment plans. For instance, various players in the market halted their service activities for several weeks to reduce the expenses. Whereas few players also adopted employee lay-offs to sustain during the COVID-19 health crisis.
- Cement manufacturing market are expected to focus on protecting their workforce, operations, and supply chains to respond toward immediate crises and find new ways of working after COVID-19. For instance, provision of sanitizers, maintaining social distancing, as well as ensuring the vaccination of every employee in the company can assist in promoting the health & safety of the workforce.
Top Impacting Factors
The market for cement manufacturing is significantly driven by the construction activities going throughout the world. As there is rapid expansion in the population size the need for residential and commercial space is also rising and thus the construction market is also rising.
For instance, prominent infrastructural projects, such as the construction of Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai and the South-North Water Transfer Project in China, are expected to significantly bolster the cement manufacturing and sales part.
The most important restraint for the market growth is COVID-19, as because of pandemic the processing units are getting closed, workforce are not allowed to gather, thus the sales of cement has been reduced. In recent days the situation is getting better and the market has growing again.
Market Trends
- New market trend of cement manufacturing industry is in reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions from cement/concrete production is in improvement of cement pyroprocessing. Pyroprocessing transforms the raw mix into clinkers.
- Global Cement company came up with new technology, cement production has traditionally been focused on OPC, composite and blast furnace slag cements have been developed and are now a central part of the cement-type portfolio of producers.
Key Benefits of the Report
- This study presents the analytical depiction of the cement manufacturing market making industry along with the current trends and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.
- The report presents information related to key drivers, restraints, and opportunities along with detailed analysis of the cement manufacturing market share.
- The current market is quantitatively analyzed to highlight the cement manufacturing market growth scenario.
- Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of buyers & suppliers in the market.
- The report provides a detailed cement manufacturing market analysis based on competitive intensity and how the competition will take shape in coming years.
Key Market Segments
- By Product Type
- By Application Type
- Residential
- Commercial
- Infrastructure
- By Region
- North America
- Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- LAMEA
Key Market Players
- Lafarge Holcim Ltd,
- Heidelberg Cement AG
- Italcementi
- Cemex
- China National Building Materials (CNBM)
- Jidong Development Group Co., Ltd.
- China Resources Cement.
- NBM International Corporation, Anhui Conch Cement Co., Ltd.