2025, the Colombian cement market continued to grow steadily, with the national cement shipment volume increasing by 9.8% year-on-year to 1.179 million tons, a significant increase from 1.074 million tons in the same period last year, showing a sustained recovery of terminal demand.
From the perspective of product structure, bagged cement has become the main engine driving the overall growth, with sales increasing by 14.7% year-on-year, while the performance of bulk cement market is relatively flat, with an increase of only 0.03% year-on-year. This trend of differentiation is directly reflected in the performance of different sales channels: the wholesale and retail market for end consumers was particularly impressive, with a year-on-year surge of 17.4%; the purchasing volume of ready-mixed concrete enterprises also achieved a steady growth of 5.8%. However, the purchasing willingness of construction companies and contractors is obviously insufficient, and the sales volume of this channel has contracted by 11.2% year-on-year, reflecting that the traditional construction field is still facing some pressure.
The production side follows up the growth of market demand synchronously. In October, the national cement output increased by 5.8% year-on-year to 1.25 million tons, higher than 1.181 million tons in the same period last year, and the rhythm of capacity release basically matched the growth of sales. The cumulative data from January to October
2025 further confirms this trend. Total cement shipments nationwide reached 10.556 million tons, up 4.6% year on year. Among them, the cumulative sales of bagged cement increased by 7.9%, while bulk cement declined by 1.9%, indicating that bagged products are more popular in the market throughout the year. The wholesale and retail channel continued to lead the market segments with a cumulative increase of 11.3%, while the construction company and contractor channel declined by 4.8% and the ready-mixed concrete enterprise channel declined by 4%, indicating that the construction progress of large-scale engineering projects may have slowed down. During the same period, the national cement output was 11.466 million tons, an increase of 2.8% over the same period last year, the growth rate of production was lower than that of sales, and the trend of destocking in the industry was obvious.
On the whole, the Colombian cement market is currently showing the structural characteristics of "strong retail and weak engineering". The small-scale construction and home decoration maintenance market is active, while the demand for large-scale infrastructure and commercial real estate projects is relatively weak. The strong growth of bagged cement is in sharp contrast to the weakness of bulk cement, and this pattern of differentiation may continue for some time to come.
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