韩国建筑行业下滑 水泥企业关闭生产线
最近的政府数据表明第二季度韩国国内的建筑定单比去年同期下降了近三分之一,比第一季度下降了14.2%。9天的维修工作,使得韩国最大水泥公司的产量减少其总产能1450万吨的3%。该公司有关人士说:“在每年这个时候进行维修工作对于我们来说是很不正常的,我们通常都是在水泥需求比较少的冬天进行维修,这次我们关闭生产线,主要是由于水泥的销售情况不好,这也是不良的建筑需求造成的。”该公司已经有25万吨的水泥库存,这比正常情况要高的多。
由于疲软的水泥市场,第二大水泥公司也没有其他选择。该公司有关人士说:“水泥是一种很容易变硬的产品,因此它的存放需要特殊的存储设备,而我们没有足够的设备。”
据韩国经济日报报道说,韩国拉法基公司从9月24号起关闭四条生产线,并且在10月10号之前不会恢复生产,该公司的人并没有对次报道发表意见。
建筑工业消费占韩国经济消费的十分之一。由于大量的出口,韩国政府预计今年的经济可增长5%。
原文:
S.Korea cement makers cut output on building slump
Ssangyong Cement and other major South Korean cement makers have cut production as inventories pile up amid a slump in construction spending, company officials said on Friday.
Ssangyong Cement Industrial Co. Ltd, the country's largest cement maker, has shut two of its production lines since Sept. 25 for nine days' maintenance work, said company spokesman Park Joong-seok.
Second-ranked Tong Yang Cement Corp., almost wholly owned by Tong Yang Major Corp, has recently closed two of its seven production lines for an indefinite period, said company spokesman Suh Byung-hoon.
Domestic construction orders during the second quarter fell by nearly a third from a year earlier because of a soft local economy, following a 14.2 percent drop for the first quarter, according to the latest government data.
The nine days of lost output at Ssangyong is equivalent to 3 percent of its capacity of 14.5 million tonnes per year.
"It's unusual for us to do maintenance work at this time of a year," Park said. "We usually do that in winter when demand is very low, but this time, we shut the lines because cement is not selling well, hit by the bad construction demand."
The company held stocks of 250,000 tonnes of cement, which he said was higher than normal levels.
Tony Yang had no choice but to cut production because of the weak market, said Suh. "Cement becomes hard quick, so it requires special storage facilities, but we don't have enough storage," he said.
French-South Korean joint venture Lafarge-Halla Cement Corp. has shut four lines since Sept. 24 and will not restart them until Oct. 10, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Friday. Company officials were not available for comment.
The construction industry is responsible for nearly a 10th of gross domestic product in an economy grappling with depressed consumer spending. The government expects economic growth of 5 percent this year thanks to robust exports.(中国水泥网 转载请注明出处)
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