USA: Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico in December 2015 were about 6.6 mt, an increase of 5.6 per cent from December 2014. Shipments for the year through December totalled 91.5 mt, up by 3.5 per cent from FY14. The leading producing states for Portland and blended cement in December were Texas, California, Missouri, Florida, and Alabama, in descending order. The leading cement-consuming States (Texas, California, Florida, New York, and Illinois, in descending order) received about 42 per cent of the December shipments.
Clinker production totalled 6.9 mt in December 2015, an increase of 6.1 per cent from the output in December 2014. Production for the year through December was 76.5 mt, up by 2 per cent from FY14. Masonry cement shipments of about 193 000 t in December 2015 were up by 11.5 per cent from those of December 2014. Shipments for the year through December were 2.4 mt, up by 2.1 per cent compared with total sales in 2014.