爱尔兰水泥子公司，CRH建筑材料集团，正考虑水泥价格提高18%，尽管由于建筑业减速导致水泥销售量下降。
此举刺激了一些国内建筑工业开发商，他们已经身受房价下降和信贷紧缩的影响。
爱尔兰水泥的总经理Seamus Lynch上个月致客户信，提醒客户目前的迹象表明水泥每吨可能提价15%到%18。鉴于目前水泥价格是100欧元每吨，提价被认为幅度很大。
Lynch表示十月他将再致信他的客户，详谈2009年确切的价格细节。
Lynch在信中说，价格上涨是由于“电力供给和窑燃料这些能源价格大幅上涨导致的不可预期的运营成本上涨”。
Lynch预期十一月重签电力供应合同时，电力价格可能上涨40%。他还预期，由于全球煤炭需求，明年窑燃料价格可能上涨40%。
爱尔兰水泥最近增加其在Drogheda 附近的Platin 水泥厂的生产量，这是一个2亿欧元的项目计划，用于水泥需求旺盛达到高峰时。
一个爱尔兰水泥的发言人说，公司正面临“成本显著增加”时期，但还不知道这将“如何影响产品定价”。
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".
