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Cement production reached an estimated ** million metric tons in the United States in 2025, the lowest production volume since 2017. That same year, ****billion metric tons of cement were produced worldwide.

Concrete vs cement

Cement is manufactured through the high temperature heating of materials like silica, alumina, and iron, which results in a material called “clinker”, which is then ground and mixed with limestone and gypsum to produce concrete. Concrete is essentially a mix of aggregates (sand and gravel or crushed stone) and paste (water and cement). Portland cement is a generic term to describe the type of cement used in almost all concretes.

Cement production in the United States

The production of cement clinker in the U.S. reached about ** million metric tons in 2024. Overall, U.S. cement production remains under the 2005 record due to idle production plants, underutilized capacity at other plants, disruptions due to plant improvements, as well as the decreased costs of importing cement.