愛爾蘭水泥子公司，CRH建筑材料集團(tuán)，正考慮水泥價(jià)格提高18%，盡管由于建筑業(yè)減速導(dǎo)致水泥銷售量下降。
此舉刺激了一些國內(nèi)建筑工業(yè)開發(fā)商，他們已經(jīng)身受房價(jià)下降和信貸緊縮的影響。
愛爾蘭水泥的總經(jīng)理Seamus Lynch上個(gè)月致客戶信，提醒客戶目前的跡象表明水泥每噸可能提價(jià)15%到%18。鑒于目前水泥價(jià)格是100歐元每噸，提價(jià)被認(rèn)為幅度很大。
Lynch表示十月他將再致信他的客戶，詳談2009年確切的價(jià)格細(xì)節(jié)。
Lynch在信中說，價(jià)格上漲是由于“電力供給和窯燃料這些能源價(jià)格大幅上漲導(dǎo)致的不可預(yù)期的運(yùn)營成本上漲”。
Lynch預(yù)期十一月重簽電力供應(yīng)合同時(shí)，電力價(jià)格可能上漲40%。他還預(yù)期，由于全球煤炭需求，明年窯燃料價(jià)格可能上漲40%。
愛爾蘭水泥最近增加其在Drogheda 附近的Platin 水泥廠的生產(chǎn)量，這是一個(gè)2億歐元的項(xiàng)目計(jì)劃，用于水泥需求旺盛達(dá)到高峰時(shí)。
一個(gè)愛爾蘭水泥的發(fā)言人說，公司正面臨“成本顯著增加”時(shí)期，但還不知道這將“如何影響產(chǎn)品定價(jià)”。
附英文：
CRH considering 18 percent price increase of cement
(Ireland) -- Irish Cement, a subsidiary of construction materials group CRH, is considering
increasing the price of cement by as much as 18 per cent despite a fall-off in cement sales due to the construction slowdown.
The move has enraged some players in the domestic construction industry already
suffering from the falling price of houses and the impact of the credit crunch.
Seamus Lynch, managing director of Irish Cement, last month wrote to customers
warning that current indications were that it would be announcing price increases
of between €15 and €18 per tonne. Given that cement currently sells at about
€100 a tonne, the increase is seen as substantial.
Lynch indicated that he would be writing to his customers again in October to
inform them of the exact price details for 2009.
In the letter, Lynch said the prices rises were due to "unprecedented increases
in its operating costs due to massive rises in the price of energy, both in electricity
supply and kiln fuels".
Lynch expected to incur a 40 per cent electricity price increase when the company's
electricity contracts were renewed in November.
He also expected that, because of increased world coal demand, the price of kiln
fuel would rise by 40 per cent next year.
Irish Cement recently increased capacity at its Platin Cement Works near
Drogheda, a €200 million project planned at the height of the property boom
when demand for cement was soaring.
A spokesman for Irish Cement said that the company was faced with "significant
cost increases" but that it did not yet know "how it will affect product pricing".
