UNICEM
, France National Union of Quarrying and Building Materials Industries Federation, Order, Union, Union
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Conjuncture | Gloomy start to the year for the construction materials sector The main triggers of the real estate crisis, namely the inflationary surge and the sharp rise in interest rates, are now behind us. The level of rates still remains high compared to the past but their expected trend is more downward than upward, while, on the price side, their deceleration is well underway. -
Conjuncture | A very bad month of November 2023 for the Building sector and a year 2024 which promises to be complicated For almost two years now, the production volumes of construction materials have been gradually contracting in connection with the real estate crisis which is weighing on construction activity. With work in stock or in progress gradually coming to an end, the contraction in building permits recorded in recent months is now drying up housing starts, pushing BPE and aggregates activity to new lows. -
Conjuncture | Towards a third year of decline and historically low levels for the materials and construction sectors The volumes of BPE and aggregates activity in October were at levels much lower than those of last year. The housing crisis, which began a year ago and which is reflected in the marked decline in construction starts, sales and permits, is gradually spreading to all downstream and upstream sectors of the sector, with materials not escaping for this purpose “domino”. -
Website update | UNICEM launches its new website and those of its unions The National Union of Quarrying and Construction Materials Industries (UNICEM) and its unions aim, through this overhaul, to offer their members and the general public comprehensive information platforms on the mineral materials and ready-made concrete sectors. to work. -
Conjuncture | Construction materials: “all lights flashing red” for concrete and aggregates in 2024 With the real estate and new construction crisis, aggregates and concrete professionals are preparing for a year 2024 "which pushes all historic lows downward" in France, after an already difficult year 2023. -
Conjuncture | A “gray September” for construction materials Over the months, the slowdown in inflation seems to be confirmed. But this good news is unfortunately accompanied by a moderation of growth. Economic activity (particularly in the construction sector) is now suffering the repercussions of the erosion of household purchasing and investment power, eaten away by increases in prices and interest rates. -
Appointment | Louis Natter re-elected President of the UNICEM committed companies association Unanimously re-elected at the General Assembly on October 25, Louis Natter will serve for three more years as president of the UNICEM engaged companies association, whose mission is to support progress initiatives and CSR issues in the National Union of Quarrying and Construction Materials Industries (UNICEM). -
Conjuncture | A slightly milder end to summer for the construction materials sector The crisis in the construction sector looms with increasing certainty as the months go by. The fall in housing sales, the marked decline in building permits as well as the planned end of support measures trace without much mystery the continuation of the decline in housing starts for the months to come... and consequently, that of the request for materials! -
Conjuncture | A complicated start to the summer for the building materials market The economic environment which conditions the demand for materials continues to deteriorate at the start of the summer: the new real estate market remains weighed down by the rise in interest rates, the tightening of conditions for granting credit, the high level of construction production costs (land included) and by a regulatory and political context that is not conducive to price relief and support for the residential sector.
