Cement News tagged: Corporate
Bangladesh: Lafarge Surma signs deal with real estate company
Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd (LSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Building Technology & Ideas Ltd (BTI), one of the leading real estate companies of Bangladesh. Under the agreement, BTI will use Supercrete cement in all its construction projects. Masud Khan, finance director of Lafarge Surma Cement Ltd, and Md Sharifur Rahman, executive director, Construction of BTI signed ...
Holcim Philippines' strong 2Q results
Holcim Philippines Inc's strong sales continued in the second quarter of 2015 as its plants delivered record supplies of cement. Holcim Philippines net sales from April to June rose by 9.7 per cent to PHP9.4bn (US$203m) from PHP8.6bn in the 1Q15. The company’s second-quarter net income improved by 1.6 per cent QoQ to PHP1.5bn due to higher volume and prices. Holcim Philippines President and ...
India Cements reports low demand in 2Q15
South India's largest cement maker by volume, The India Cements Ltd, on Wednesday said its profits for the quarter ended June 2015 were INR4010m (US$617.2m) from a loss of INR2960m (US$25.5m) in the comparable quarter last year. Cement producers in south India have previously found profits hard to come by with excess capacity and falling demand. "It's a quarter where price stabilisation hap...
Cemex announces divestment of operations in Austria, Hungary and Croatia
Cemex announced today that it has signed an agreement for the sale of its operations in Austria and Hungary to the Rohrdorfer Group for approximately EUR160.1m. The Austrian operations consist of 24 aggregate quarries (approximately 6.47Mt of aggregates sold in 2014) and 34 ready-mix plants (approximately 1.60Mm 3 of ready-mix sold in 2014). Cemex’s operations in Austria had net sales of ap...
Semen Indonesia may review expansion plans amid slow demand environment
Semen Indonesia has said it may review some planned expansion projects amid sluggish domestic cement demand, according to a senior company executive. “We will probably be accelerating the projects that have already started construction, but for other projects, like our regional expansion and the packing plant, we may adjust the plans,” said Ahyanizzaman, finance director at Semen Indonesia to...
Moody's assigns first-time A3 rating to Anhui Conch Cement
Moody's Investors Service has assigned a first-time A3 issuer rating to Anhui Conch Cement Company Ltd. The rating outlook is stable. "Conch's A3 rating reflects its leadership in the domestic cement industry, as demonstrated by its large production capacity and distribution networks, its strong earnings and ample cash flows, as well as sustained low debt leverage and disciplined capital spen...
PPC hosts groundbreaking ceremony for Zimbabwe plant
PPC has held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new 0.7Mta plant in Msasa, Zimbabwe. The US$80m plant will be the company’s second cement facility in the country. Speaking at the event, Njombo Lekula, the managing director of PPC, said the investment PPC was making in the Msasa plant was a vote of confidence in Zimbabwe’s future. “PPC Zimbabwe is looking to the future of the country, with tod...
Schon named PCA Vice President and Counsel, Government Affairs
Portland Cement Association (PCA) named Michael Schon as vice president and counsel for government affairs. With PCA, he will have lead responsibility for shepherding the association's regulatory advocacy efforts and for promoting the cement industry in general. Schon comes to PCA from Baker Botts LLP, where he served as senior associate in the environmental practice group. In that capacity, ...
Holcim Philippines net quarter down 7.5% YoY
Holcim Philippines Inc said Monday second-quarter net profit was down 7.5 per cent YoY, hurt by rising expenses. Holcim said the April-June quarter net profit declined to PHP1.5bn (US$33.5m) from PHP1.65bn in the year-earlier period. Second-quarter revenue rose 6.8 per cent YoY to PHP9.42bn, around half the pace of the 12 per cent YoY increase in expenses to PHP7.29bn. In the first half, ...
Chinese demand seen improving - Citi
Cement demand in China is likely to improve sequentially in the coming six months with the speeding up of infrastructure construction and more policy support, says Citi. Cement demand in China had declined 5.3 per cent YoY in 1H 2015 on slow infrastructure investments and weak property new starts, leading to an 18 per cent drop in the cement price year-to-date. Citi forecasts demand will ...
Fitch Ratings publishes Anhui Conch Cement’s Rating of 'A-'/Stable
Fitch Ratings has published Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited's (Conch) Long-Term Foreign-Currency Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and senior unsecured rating of 'A-'. The Outlook on the IDR is Stable. The rating's agency notes that Conch is one of the largest cement producers in China. Its principle business includes the manufacturing and selling of cement, clinker and aggregate products. Its c...
China Resources 1H attributable profit falls 25.6%
China Resources Cement said its profit attributable to owners for the six months ended 30 June 2015 dropped 25.6 per cent YoY to HK$1530.2m. The basic earnings per share were HK23.4 cents. The turnover was HK$13,404m a decrease of 11.6 per cent from a year earlier. The consolidated gross margin was 25 per cent, representing a decrease of 6.9 percentage points from 31.9 per cent for the corre...
CMA welcomes recent sale of UK plants
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has welcomed the sale of plants by Lafarge Tarmac and Hanson. In the Competition Commission’s (CC) market investigation report published in January 2014, the CC had ordered Lafarge Tarmac to sell one of two cement plants and Hanson to sell one of its ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) plants to enhance competition in the cement and GGB...
Honduras: Goldlake invests US$230m in 1.2Mta plant
Italy’s mining company Goldlake will invest US$230m in a new cement plant via its local subsidiary Five Star Mining. The 1.2Mta works in the Agalteca valley will produce sulphate-resistant cement for marine infrastructure projects. The project is currently applying for operating permits following the submission of feasibility and environmental impacts studies. The start of construction is ex...
National Cement Co first half ahead 4.7%
National Cement Co (NCC) posted a net profit of AED70.2m (US$19.11m) in the first half of 2015, a rise of 4.7 per cent from AED67m (US$18.24m) in the corresponding period from last year. NCC’s profits for Q2-15 saw a marginal increase to AED33.73m compared to AED33.13m in the same period in 2014, according to a filing to the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) on Thursday. The cement firm previousl...
RAK Cement reports first-half profit drop
Ras Al Khaimah Cement reported a 22.3 per cent profit drop to AED2.45m ($667,000) in the first half of 2015, compared to AED3.15m (US$858,000) in the same period of 2014, according to a filing to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.