Aggregate demand to exceed 2 billion tons

摘要

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that aggregates consumption for 2012 was 1.99 billion metric tons. This is about the same as our estimates over the past few months (2.01), but 2012 marks the fourth year of demand being below 2.0 billion metric tons. Still, the economy is recovering - especially residential building - so the outlook is for demand to exceed 2 billion tons during 2013 and 2014.