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Organization News | Alain Plantier elected new President of the National Union of Quarry Industries and Building Materials The General Assembly of UNICEM, organized in Reims on June 21, 2023, elected Alain Plantier as president of the federation, succeeding Alain Boisselon whose mandate ends on June 21. He was also re-elected President of the National Union of Aggregates Producers (UNPG). -
Appointment | Alain Plantier elected new President of the National Union of Quarry Industries and Building Materials The General Assembly of UNICEM, organized in Reims on June 21, 2023, elected Alain Plantier as president of the federation, succeeding Alain Boisselon whose mandate ends on June 21. He was also re-elected President of the National Union of Aggregates Producers (UNPG). -
Conjuncture | Building materials business down in the first quarter of 2023 In response to a persistent inflationary environment (resulting from tensions over energy, raw materials, food and wages), central banks have initiated a cycle of interest rate hikes which, to date, have not probably hasn't come to an end yet. -
Conjuncture | The building materials business experienced a sharp decline in the start of 2023 compared to 2022 In just three years, the building materials sector (just like many other sectors) has had to deal with the accumulation of major shocks: two years after the start of the COVID19 pandemic and the first sanitary confinement, the Ukrainian conflict has once again tested the productive structures, adding to the existing supply tensions an energy supply crisis. -
Conjuncture | Construction materials in the turmoil of uncertainties at the start of autumn The economic outlook for the French economy has darkened over the months: supply difficulties, initially linked to post-COVID recovery tensions on supplies and recruitment, have been compounded by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and a crisis major energy sector which, by fueling inflation, is gradually eroding incomes and demand prospects. -
Conjuncture | The building materials activity remained in decline this summer The multiplication of exogenous shocks (health with COVID and its successive confinements, geopolitics with the Ukrainian conflict and its deleterious effects in terms of energy supply, climate with the drought this summer and its impact on agricultural production, etc.) has contributed in recent months to maintain significant pressure on production processes and to weigh on growth, while fueling inflation.
