In the first eight months of this year, Azerbaijan produced non-metallic building materials totaling 312 million manats, which is 13.7% higher than in the same period of 2014, the State Statistics Committee said.
Cement production for the period amounted to 1 million 828.3 thousand tons, of which 200,000 tons accounted for August. The volume of production grew by 15.1%.
The production of glass fiber also increased (566.6 tons, + 3.1 times), as well as plaster (127.4 thousand tons, + 2%), lime (11.5 thousand tons, + 52.8%), artificial stones and bricks based on cement (100 thousand tons, + 85.5%), etc.
At the same time the production of asphalt, concrete and brick factories decreased respectively by 8.7%, 40.3% and 0.3% -----08D
Economics
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