Cement News tagged: Corporate
Côte d'Ivoire: Anyama grinding unit nears completion
Oumar Tembely, the director and resident head of mission of the West African Development Bank (BOAD) in Côte d'Ivoire, led a delegation on Saturday to see the progress being made in its investment of Diamond Cement's new grinding station, located 40km from Abidjan, on the road leading to Adzopé. The construction of the Anyama plant started in January 2015. Currently, the rate of completion...
Tanzania: Tanga Cement wins finance award
Tanga Cement Co Ltd (TCCL) has won the award for the best presented financial statement for 2015 from the National Board of Accountants and Auditors (NBAA). The NBAA award seeks to promote integrated reporting through enhanced accountability, transparency and integrity in compliance with appropriate financial reporting framework. The awards are presented annually by the board to various publ...
Caribbean: Cemex launch takeover bid for TCL
Cemex SAB de CV today announced that one of its indirect subsidiaries, Sierra Trading will present an offer and takeover bid for all shareholders of Trinidad Cement Ltd. "This Offer represents a clear sign of our commitment to TCL and the region. In addition, although we believe that our Offer is attractive given the premium to the current share price, as part of this commitment, it is als...
India: Dalmia Bharat Group to expand Odisha plant
Dalmia Bharat Group has announced an investment of INR20bn (US$2.9m) to expand the capacity of its cement plant in Odisha. Group company Dalmia Cement Bharat Ltd has 74.6 stakes in OCL India, a leading cement maker with the largest market share in Odisha. Mahendra Singhi, Group CEO, Dalmia Bharat Group, said: "Odisha is a currently on a high economic growth trajectory and its GDP is expected...
Philippnes: DMCI Holdings wants new cement plant on Semirara island
DMCI Holdings Inc is planning to build a cement plant on Semirara Island in the Visayas worth PHP18.3bn in an industry dominated by foreign manufacturers. The company hopes it can ride on the government’s infrastructure programme. Victor Limlingan, DMCI managing director, said the company is spending a total of US$380m (about PHP18.3bn) for the cement-manufacturing venture, building a cement...
Argos becomes the fourth largest US cement producer
Cementos Argos is now the fourth largest cement plant in the United States after the Federal Trade Commission approved the acquisition of the 2.2Mta Martinsburg cement plant and the eight product dispatch and receipt terminals for US$660m. The assets acquired open the door to new markets in the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia, New York, New Jersey and Ohio. Cemento...
Ghana: Diamond cement fears staff lay offs
Diamond Cement is still considering its decision to lay off 50 per cent of the company’s staff over reports that it cannot sustain its operations, according to Citi Business News. Diamond cement has announced plans to reduce its staff strength by half by the end of November 2016. “We have not started laying off any of the real staff; we are now considering the situation. If nothing changes, ...
Ghana: CIMAF plant opens for business
Ghanaian president John Dramani Mahama has officially opened his country’s newest cement plant, a 1Mta grinding facility owned by CIMAF, according to a report in Ghana Business News. The President – who is seeking to retain power in this month’s elections – called on the company to direct a substantial share of its profits to improving the socio-economic development of the country and the l...
USA: Elementia acquires 55% stake in Giant Cement
Elementia, SAB de CV has announced that its Board of Directors has given its final approval for the completion of the acquisition of a 55 per cent stake and full control of Giant Cement Holding Inc, USA. Elementia will acquire the controlling stake from Cementos Portland Valderrivas SA for US$220m. Elementia used proceeds obtain from he capital increase through a Rights Offering to complete...
Russia: Kavkazcement upgrades packing and shipment facility
Eurocement Group has started operation of a cement palletisation and shipment facility at Kavkazcement in Karachay-Cherkessia, northern Caucasus. A new automated bulk cement shipment system and enhanced dust control system will help speed up the shipment of products more than five-fold, improve customer services and working conditions at the plant.
Chile: Melon SA divests mortar unit to ParexGroup
Chilean cement and construction materials producer Melon SA has agreed to sell its local mortar company Melon Morteros SA to ParexGroup, a French provider of specialty dry-mix solutions for the construction industry. The mortar unit is being sold for CLP4bn (US$6m), according to a filing with Chile’s securities and insurance regulator (SVS). ParexGroup will implement the transaction through ...
Malaysia: CMS Cement division sees 14% drop in 9M16 pretax profits
Malaysia’s Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) reported a total revenue of MYR1.10bn and a pretax profit of MYR160.41m in the first nine months of 2016, down 14 and 40 per cent YoY, respectively. The group’s cement division recorded a pretax profit of MYR76.98m, a decrease of 14 per cent YoY when compared with the record MYR89.23m recorded in 9M15. The company attributes the fall in profits to low...
Cementos Moctezuma completes second line at Apazapan
Cementos Molins and Buzzi Unicem's Mexican joint venture, Cementos Moctezuma, announced that construction of the second production line at its Apazapan plant in Veracruz state has now been completed. The new line will fully enter operation on 15 December, when the mill is commissioned. The project, financed by the company through its own resources, represents an investment of US$23m. It...
Mexico: Cemex prepays 2017 maturity in credit agreement
Cemex has prepaid US$373m, corresponding to the September 2017 amortisation under the facilities agreement of 29 September 2014. Some US$664m of currently-funded commitments maturing in 2018 have now been exchanged into a revolving facility, maintaining their original amortisation schedule and the same terms and conditions. The company says that the new revolving facility will provide it wit...
HeidelbergCement completes sale of US assets to Cementos Argos
HeidelbergCement has completed the US$660m sale of the Martinsburg cement plant and eight terminals to Cementos Argos. HeidelbergCement had been required to sell the West Virginia plant to comply with regulators following the acquisition of Italcementi. It is expected that the company will use the proceeds of the sale to pay down some of debt it took on to finance the acquisition process. ...
Kazakhstan: Steppe Cement refinances US$15m loans
Steppe Cement has announced that it has refinanced two loans worth a combined US$15.3m, StockMarketWire reports. A loan of US$5.5m due this month has split into three tranches, the last of which now falls due in November 2018. A US$9.8m loan contracted in 2014 will now be repaid in equal monthly instalments until November 2021. "The refinancing exercise allows Steppe Cement to spread the...