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Azerbaijan sees increase in production of building materials

Business Materials 17 August 2018 12:37 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 17

By Anvar Mammadov - Trend:

In January-July 2018, Azerbaijani companies specializing in construction sector, manufactured products worth 322.8 million manats, which is 31.7 percent more than in the same period last year, said the report of the State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan on the results of the seven months of 2018.

During the reporting period, 1.92 million tons of cement were produced in Azerbaijan (an increase of 21.6 percent, compared to the same period of 2017), 17,000 tons of lime (an increase of 27.3 percent), 109,700 tons of asphalt (an increase of 16.1 percent), 156,300 cubic meters of brick (a decrease of 4 percent), 811,100 tons of finished concrete mixture (an increase of 2.2 times), 14,030 tons of processed marble, travertine, alabaster and products from them (an increase of 44.3 percent), according to the data.

The US dollar was set at 1.7 AZN/USD for Aug. 17.

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