Cement News tagged: Corporate
Martin Marietta reports a weak Q1 on lower volumes
Martin Marietta Materials, which last month completed its acquisition of Bluegrass, then the largest privately-held US aggregates company, has announced a first-quarter turnover five per cent below the comparable period last year at US$802m, while EBITDA showed a 16.5 per cent reduction to US$123.3m. The trading profit declined from US$77.2m to US$39.1m, a 49.4 per cent fall. After a net inter...
SMT Shipping and CSL Group announce shipping joint venture
SMT Shipping (SMT) and The CSL Group (CSL) have announced an agreement for CSL to acquire 50 per cent of Eureka Shipping Ltd, SMT's pneumatic cement vessel business. The new joint venture will allow Eureka and CSL to combine expertise, resources and innovative technologies to expand services to customers in the seaborne cement powder and fly ash transportation markets around the world. CSL's ...
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh launches a new cement for plastering
LafargeHolcim Bangladesh is launching a new specialised cement for plastering called Plastercrete. Plastercrete has been carefully tested to ensure quality and meet customers' particular needs. It covers a larger surface area using less cement, resulting in significant cost savings for customers, said LafargeHolcim's spokesperson. "It would be only for plastering and different from others ava...
Fauji Cement 9M net profits total PKR2.12bn
According to Board of Directors report of Fauji Cement Co Ltd (FCCL), during the nine-month period ended 31 March 2018, it earned a net profit of PKR2.12bn (US$18.36m) as compared to PKR1.972bn (US$17m) in the same period last year. FCCL achieved capacity utilisation of 98 per cent, compared to 87 per cent in the corresponding period of the last year. FCCL's local dispatches stood at 2.328...
LafargeHolcim reports continued sales growth in 1Q18
Like-for-like net sales were up 3.1 per cent to CHF5.83bn, driven by growth in cement volumes, LafargeHolcim reported in its 1Q results release. In the quarter, the company sold 47.7Mt of cement, 49.8Mt of aggregates and 11.1Mm 3 of ready-mix concrete. While cement sales were up 3.2 per cent on a like-for-like basis, aggregate and ready-mix concrete sales slipped by 1.4 and 1.1 per cent, resp...
Holcim Philippines' net income drops in 1Q18
Holcim Philippines Inc (LafageHoclim group) said net income in the first three months of the year dropped 25 per cent due to higher energy costs and lower cement prices. Holcim reported that net income for the period of PHP700m (US$13.49m), down from the PHP939.4m (US$18.1m) registered a year earlier. Margins were lower due to the higher cost of goods sold from higher input costs driven by f...
Sanghi Cement gets environmental clearance for Abdasa
Sanghi Cement has received environmental clearance for its capacity expansion project at Abdasa, Kutch district, India. The cement producer is currently boosting cement capacity from 4Mta to 8.6Mta and lifting its clinker capacity from 3.5Mta to 7.5Mta. The INR13bn (US$193.7m) investment also includes the establishment of a grinding facility at Surat. "We raised finance for the project ...
Ciment de Bizerte exports clinker to Italy
Ciment de Bizerte scheduled a ship to sail on 3 May from Tunisia to Italy, carrying around 8000t of clinker, as part of its export programme and continued performance tests of the company's new wharf facilities. The company has scheduled an additional 30,000t of clinker exports later in the month as well as the unloading of a petcoke vessel to ensure the smooth running of its facilities. Las...
Southern Province Cement 1Q profit falls 3%
Saudi Arabian cement producer Southern Province Cement Co has reported a 2.9 per cent YoY decrease in net profits in the 1Q18. Net profits fell to SAR102m (US$27.2m) in the three-month period ended March 2018, compared to SAR105m in 1Q17, according to the company’s statement to the Saudi Stock Exchange. Southern Province has attributed the drop to a decrease in sales due to lower demand...
Bangladesh cement profitability falls in 1Q18
The Bangladeshi cement industry reports a fall in profit due to the increase in raw material cost despite an increase in sales volumes of 12 per cent in 1Q18. The earnings of listed cement companies at the Dhaka Stock Exchange declined moderately for January-March quarter of 2018 as compared to the same period of the previous year as profit margins were squeezed. Cement companies saw tighter m...
Eagle Cement records 3% net profit increase
Philippines-based Eagle Cement Corp has recorded a three per cent YoY increase in net profit to PHP1.1bn (US$21.29m) for the first quarter of the year. Revenue has risen six per cent YoY to PHP4bn in the same period, according to The Philippine Inquirer. Eagle Cement attributed the performance to "long standing cost-effective and efficient production grounded on owning the country’s most-mod...
Three million shares in Sampyo Cement to be sold
Tongyang Networks Corp says it plans to sell three million shares in Sampyo Cement Co Ltd, a South Korean cement firm, for KRW13.72bn (US$12.8m). Sampyo Cement is a slag cement producer with a cemnt capacity of 11Mta that owns the Samcheok integrated plant producing Portland cement and a grinding plant in Donghae, as well as two slag cement plants in Gwangyang and Busan.
FLSmidth to modernise its Valby HQ offices
FLSmidth is building a new campus in Copenhagen that will be the workplace of more than 1000 people. An agreement signed between FLSmidth and ATP Real Estate marks the first step towards a new, modern campus on the Valby HQ site in Copenhagen. Converting the property into the new campus will involve a full-scale renovation of the historic buildings facing Vigerslev Allé worthy of preservati...
Orient Cement announces 4% revenue increase
India's Orient Cement (OCL) has announced a 3.9 per cent YoY increase in revenue for the final quarter of FY18, rising to INR6.2bn (US$92.79m) from INR5.97bn. However, this was below estimates of 15 per cent YoY growth, according to an IIFL report. Net profit fell 22.5 per cent to INR128m, compared to INR165m of the year-ago period. The results have been partially attributed to weak demand i...
Vicat advances in most areas, other than Egypt and Switzerland
Vicat's 1Q18 turnover showed 3.9 per cent improvement to EUR573m, which represents an underlying advance of 10.8 per cent at constant parameters and exchange rates. The cement turnover grew by 2.5 per cent to EUR290m, as cement shipments advanced by 6.5 per cent to 5.21Mt. Before inter-sector eliminations, the cement turnover amounted to EUR342m, a two per cent improvement. The turnover in con...
Umm Al Qura Cement announces fall in net profit
Saudi Arabia’s Umm Al Qura Cement Co has announced a 40 per cent YoY fall in net profit for the first quarter of 2018, decreasing to SAR10.2m (US$2.72m) from SAR17m, according to Reuters. However, revenue has increased 9.3 per cent to SAR56.5m, compared to SAR51.7m of the year-ago period.