"Public funds is expected to earn tens of millions of shekels a year of competition in the cement," says Eyal Hecht, CEO importer of cement Ciment.
Hecht's statement comes against the backdrop of the company's announcement yesterday that it will start to import to Israel "Slag Cement", mainly for infrastructure projects, including bridges, ports, subways and other large castings. Imports possible after Ciment got Standards Institute standard for cement, which will buy from factories in Greece.
Ciment say that the company intends to import about 100,000 tons of slag cement per year. This is the first time Schmelt slag, which is considered the highest quality and most environmentally friendly, imported to Israel. The volume of slag cement market in Israel is estimated at 400-300 thousand tons per year, with the increase in demand for cement this impression up 10% to 5% annually. It is expected that the ongoing boom in infrastructure development over the coming years will bring further significant increase in demand for cement this type.
According Ciment, since the opening of the cement market competition 4 years ago, the prices of gray cement in Israel at rates of 30% -20% when the number of players in the field of cement in Israel jumped two about ten. Ciment hope that this encourages phenomenon will be copied also to the slag cement. "Cement slag cement is considered a particularly high quality, and is therefore sold at high prices in Israel of NIS 325 per ton," says CEO of Ciment Hecht. "Ministries, government companies and local authorities are the largest consumers of cement slag, so that the public purse expected to earn tens of millions of dollars a year from the opening of competition in this area as well. "
It should be noted that recently learned that the Commissioner for Trade Levies Ministry of Economy is considering re-charge antidumping duty on cement imports, as published in the Israel Hayom "August 20, 2019. It was the Minister of Economy, Eli Cohen considered the matter and decided to impose rate customs icons to allow the increasing competition in the sector, one of the monopolies stable since the state.
 
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This is part of the ongoing ideological struggle between those who put their consumers at the center and those who put the manufacturers in the center. In the free world went notion that promote competition to benefit consumers, while supporting directly Brands by vital interests of each country.