Cement is one of the most basic building materials in the global construction industry. Nevertheless, although it occupies an important role in construction, its characteristics in the global sense are still relatively unknown. The findings in this book reveal, for example, that the manufacture of cement is predominantly capital intensive; that the production and distribution of cement is a highly vertically integrated trade; that the major cement producers resort to large scale price cutting when there are production surpluses; that geographical affinity can determine the flow of the global cement trade; and that the global demand for cement is erratic, and more.
- ISBN10 997169171X
- ISBN13 9789971691714
- Publish Date July 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 October 2008
- Publish Country SG
- Publisher NUS Press
- Imprint Singapore University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 110
- Language English