{"id":472881,"date":"2025-06-25T14:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/construction-sector-falls-2-3-in-dr-according-to-adocem\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T18:15:56","slug":"construction-sector-falls-2-3-in-dr-according-to-adocem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/construction-sector-falls-2-3-in-dr-according-to-adocem\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction sector falls 2.3% in DR, according to Adocem"},"content":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo<\/strong>.\u2013 The construction industry is falling in the Dominican Republic, according to the president of the Dominican Association of Cement Producers<\/a> (Adocem), who revealed that the sector registered a 2.3% drop in the first four months of the year, which has directly impacted local cement sales, which decreased by 6.2% compared to the same period of 2024.\n\nThe data was provided by Jorge David P\u00e9rez, general director of Argos Dominicana, who warned that this negative trend has been dragging on since last year and is well below the historical average growth of the sector. “We are facing a slowdown that requires the joint attention of all economic actors,” he pointed out.\n\nP\u00e9rez took the opportunity to reiterate the cement sector’s commitment to sustainability, highlighting the capacity of cement kilns to process waste as an energy source, a circular economy model that \u2014as he explained\u2014 could help reduce dependence on open landfills and their environmental impacts.\n\n\n

You may be interested in… <\/em><\/strong>Community members block the Duarte highway in Santiago to demand promised works<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\nHowever, the executive expressed concern about a modification project to the General Law on Waste Management, which proposes to impose mandatory energy valorization quotas on cement companies. “Without a structured and competitive market, these measures generate distrust for new investments and could create unsustainable monopolies,” he warned.\n\n\n

Finally, P\u00e9rez called on the government and society to work from collaboration and technical exchange. “No isolated effort will be sufficient. We need to move forward together towards a sustainable future with clear and realistic rules for all”<\/strong>, he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\nThe new Board of Directors of Adocem was also sworn in, headed by Enrique Garc\u00eda (Cementos Progreso) as vice president; F\u00e9lix Gonz\u00e1lez (Cemento Santo Domingo), secretary; Adriano Brunetti (Domicem), treasurer; Cruz Amalia Rodr\u00edguez (Cemento Cibao), vocal; and Giuseppe Maniscalco (Cemento Panam), as past president.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Santo Domingo.\u2013 The construction industry is falling in the Dominican Republic, according to the president of the Dominican Association of Cement Producers (Adocem), who revealed that the sector registered a 2.3% drop in the first four months of the year, which has directly impacted local cement sales, which decreased by 6.2% compared to the same […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15239,"featured_media":474375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Z17","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/construccion-1080x720-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Diana S\u00e1nchez","author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/69c8b1e2bccf3de82d67a11dbfe000ad325e79bc5968852a7240d1237ac986d1?s=96&d=mm&r=g","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/06\/construccion-1080x720-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}