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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. -
Organization News | UNICEM committed companies: 30 years of commitment to sustainable development in the quarry and building materials sector UNICEM entreprisesengages, the association that carries CSR initiatives in the quarry and building materials sector, organized its general meeting on September 15, 2022 around the theme - Crossed perspectives "30 years of commitments, and now?", led by Nicholas Rossignol. -
Conjuncture | Building materials activity recorded a sharp decline in April The signs of a downturn in activity are confirmed in construction materials as in the rest of the economy. The rebound period that followed the lifting of post-pandemic health restrictions seems to have come to an end with the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict, which further accentuated the supply difficulties already present. -
Conjuncture | The building materials business shows the first effects of the Ukrainian conflict While materials activity had shown itself to be rather resilient at the very start of 2022, the latest data available for March suggest that the outbreak of the war in Ukraine weighed on the productive dynamic.