Globally, gray cement trade prices rose in the third quarter of 2018, according to the 3Q 2018 update of CW Research’s Global Cement Trade Price Report (GCTPR).

Within five years, synthetic graphite is projected to account for almost 70 percent of the global graphite market in terms of demand, a similar share to that expected for 2018, according to CW Research’s 2018 update of the World Natural and Synthetic Graphite Market Demand Forecast Report.

According to CW Research’s 2018 update of the Oman Cement Market Report, cement apparent consumption in the country is forecast to increase to almost eleven million tons in 2023.

The global graphite market volume is forecast to grow at a double-digit average annual rate, increasing to over six million tons between 2018 and 2023, according to CW Research’s 2018 update of the World Natural and Synthetic Graphite Market Demand Forecast Report.

Global cement capacity is forecast to edge up by almost one percent per year on average between 2018 and 2023, according to CW Research’s 2H2018 update of the Global Cement Volume Forecast Report.

Global cement consumption is projected to decline marginally to 4.05 billion tons in 2018, according to CW Research’s 2H2018 update of the Global Cement Volume Forecast Report (GCVFR).

According to CW Research’s Cement and Clinker Price Assessments for Med Basin and Persian Gulf, FOB prices for cement and clinker have remained flat in August.

According to CW Research’s “Petcoke Country Market Data”, during the first half of 2018, petcoke production rose in India, but contracted in China and Brazil.

Gray cement trade prices recorded an overall improvement in the second quarter of 2018, according to the 2Q 2018 update of CW Research’s Global Cement Trade Price Report.

According to CW Research’s Cement and Clinker Price Assessments for Med Basin and Persian Gulf, FOB prices for cement and clinker have remained unchanged in July.