Construction materials manufacturers to increase investments
Valor Econômico - 07/03/2008
With heated demand and increasingly smaller idle capacity, most industries of construction materials foresee making investments in next the 12 months in order to increase their production capacity. A survey made by the Brazilian Association of the Industries of Construction Materials (Abramat) shows that 54% of the entity's member companies will invest. Optimism is greater among companies that manufacture materials for finishing. According to the research results, 60% of them intend to increase production, whereas among manufacturers of base materials, 47% affirmed they will make investments. For 63% of the surveyed companies, the month of July will register good performance, whereas in the month of June 70% of them gave the same answer. The survey also showed the average use of the installed capacity among the companies of the sector reached 85% in June.