market studies

Carry out a market study on the aggregate or cut stone market for the construction and industrial sectors, by breaking it down into the major micromarkets (ready-mixed concrete, concrete products, plant mixes, roads, animal feed, soil improvement, industries, etc.) by department or by region.

Contacts with UNICEM, DRIRE, prefectures, chambers of commerce, quarry operators, concrete manufacturers, road construction companies, etc.

• Characterisation of supply
  - identify the players in the aggregate extraction field (alluvial, calcareous, eruptive, various minerals, etc.) and map the establishments: competing companies and quarries (qualitative and quantitative)
  - identify the geology of each department
  - determine the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of materials
  - obtain the main contents of prefectoral orders : average and maximum authorised volumes, areas, reserves, duration of prefectoral authorisations, etc.


• Characterisation of demand
  - identify the main opportunities per micromarket by dividing the aggregate volumes produced by application: roads, asphalt mix and sand-gravel mix plants, earth-moving companies, ready-mixed concrete, prefabrication of concrete, environment, industries, agriculture, trade, etc. and map the main establishments (qualitative as well as quantitative)
  - determine the needs of the main target sectors : types of materials used, required characteristics, quantities, used and potential, purchasing criteriat
  - assessment of ex loco prices and market trends in terms of consumption
  - establish the department's export and import flows (volumes, origins and destinations)