They fell more than 5% from sales of construction supplies in June

07/07/2018 –

The Construya Index (IC), which measures the evolution of volumes sold to the private sector of construction products manufactured by the major companies that make up the Construya group (ceramic bricks, portland cement, lime, long steel, aluminum joinery, ceramic floors and coatings, glues and pastels, waterproofing paints, toilets, faucets and water pipes), specifies that the sales of inputs Group companies were 5.4% lower than those recorded in June 2017.

And compared with May, volumes shipped in June 2018 were down 9.06%, seasonally adjusted.

Meanwhile, during the first six months of the year, the Construya index recorded a growth of 7.8% over the same period of the previous year.

It should be noted that other activity-related indicators coincided with a decrease in the demand for building materials for construction in June