Steppe Cement increased its sales of cement by two per cent in the first half of 2012, having sold 615,838 tonnes of cement for 7,728m Tenge, compared with 601,099 tonnes of cement for 6,286m Tenge in the same period the previous year.
The average price for the current period for delivered cement was 12,549 Tenge per tonne (excl. VAT), compared with 10,458 Tenge per tonne in the corresponding period of 2011.
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