Cement News tagged: Corporate
Moody's upgrades West China Cement to Ba3; stable outlook
Moody's Investors Service has upgraded West China Cement Limited's (WCC) corporate family and senior unsecured ratings to Ba3 from B1. "The upgrade reflects the improvement in WCC's financial profile following the investment by Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited (A3 stable) in the company," says Franco Leung, a Moody's Vice President and Senior Analyst. At the end of June 2015, Conch had com...
Lucky Cement signs contract with Siemens Pakistan for SAP system
Lucky Cement Ltd has signed a contract with Siemens Pakistan to implement SAP Enterprise System. "Through SAP, we aim to drive progress through greater integration of our various locations, agility and enhanced efficiency of our operations and further efficiencies in our processes," said Executive Director, Noman Hasan.
Malaysia: YTL Corporation Bhd full-year pretax profit down 15.7% YoY
YTL Corporation Bhd's pre-tax profit for the financial year ended 30 June 2015 fell to MYR2.37bn (US$562m) from MYR2.81bn a year earlier. Revenue decreased to MYR16.8bn from MYR19.3bn previously, the company said in a filing to Bursa Malaysia On its outlook, YTL Corp expects to achieve overall satisfactory performance for the financial year ending 30 June 2016 in construction, information te...
China: Huaxin first-half profit plunges 82%
Huaxin Cement reported 1H15 net profit of CNY89m, down 82 per cent YoY, in line with the company’s guidance at the end of July indicating a drop of 80-85 per cent. The Holcim group company said thesix-month decline was attributed to lower clinker and cement prices (-12 per cent YoY) offsetting higher sales volumes (23Mt, +1.4 per cent YoY, together with increaesd finance expenses (+9 per ce...
AdBri sees strong rise in half-year profit
Adelaide Brighton Ltd reported net profit after tax for the half year ended 30 June 2015 of AUD82.6m, an increase of 61.3 per cent compared to the previous corresponding period. Adjusted fo significant items, the underlying advance was 5.6 per cent to AUD83m. Property transactions contributed AUD12m to net profit. Revenue of AUD678.1m was 12.6 per cent higher YoY supported by higher cement...
S&P upgrades TCL, removes from CreditWatch
Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services raised its corporate credit rating on Trinidad Cement Ltd Group (TCL) to 'B-' from 'CCC', and removed it from CreditWatch with positive implications. The outlook is stable. At the same time, it has assigned its 'B-' issue-level rating to the company's US$200m senior secured term loan. The rating action reflects TCL's successful debt refinancing, whic...
Cimpor's 1H cement sales rise, but volumes drop
Cimpor's first-half turnover increased a 4.8 per cent to EUR1302.8m, while EBITDA declined by 3.3 per cent to EUR279.2m. The amortisation and provision increased by 10.1 per cent to EUR100.6m and the trading profit declined by 9.5 to EUR178.6m and after a 5.5 per cent decline in the net financial charge to EUR166.8m led to a pre-tax profit of a 43.4 per cent to EUR11.8m. After a 32.2 per ce...
Sumitomo Osaka Cement reports strong quarterly rise
Japan's Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co Ltd reported a 26.8 per cent YoY rise in operating profit to JPY4.43bn (US$35.7m) over the April-June quarter. Sales during the period climbed to JPY56.78bn, up six per cent over the same quarter of last year. Earnings per share rose to JPY7.68, up from last year's JPY5.69 for the same quarter. The cement producer has announced it is to raise capacity ...
GCC sees higher volumes and bettter pricing
Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) reported a 19 per cent rise YoY in second-quarter net sales to MXP3051m (US$186m) on the back of higher volumes and a better pricing environment both in its Mexican and US markets. In the US, sales rose by 19.6 per cent in the quarter, totalling MXP2190.3m. This reflected the two per cent rise in cement sales driven by deliveries in Minnesota, Texas, Iowa a...
Paraguay: cement price predicted to fall 15% in 2016
Following the fuel conversion at Industria Nacional de Cemento’s Villeta plant in Paraguay, its CEO, Jorge Méndez, said he expects up to a 15 per cent drop in the price of cement in 2016. The fuel project will enable the works to be fired with alternative fuels including vegetable oil and forest waste as well as oil and petcoke. This is expected to lower fuel costs by US$22m. Mr Méndez a...
Cherat Cement FY14-15 profit dips two per cent
Cherat Cement Co Ltd reported a profit after tax of PKR1.288bn (US$12.6m) during FY14-15, down two per cent from a year earlier, the company said in a notice to the Karachi Stock Exchange. According to a report by Al Habib Capital Markets, during the year the privately-owned cement producer reported a modest two per cent YoY rise in its top line. A decline in dispatches (particularly expor...
West China Cement first-half profit plummets
West China Cement Ltd’s net profit slumped 99 per cent in the first half as China's economic slowdown took a toll on cement consumption. The company said first-half net profit fell to CNY2.4m (US$375,120), down from CNY160.2m a year earlier. Its revenue fell 15.4 per cent to CNY1.69bn from HK$2.00bn a year earlier.
Nigeria: CCNN full-year profit rises 23.1%
The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN), part of BUA Group, has declared a post-tax profit of US$9.64m for the 2014 financial year, increasing by 23.1 per cent YoY. CCNN chairman, Abdulsamad Rabiu, said that despite lower cement sales recorded in the last quarter of 2014 mainly due to pockets of unrest in CCNN's business markets, the company's focus on efficiency and strategic investme...
Fosroc reaches agreement to acquire majority shareholding in Idea Kimya, Turkey
Fosroc, the international construction chemicals group, said it has reached an agreement to acquire a "substantial majority shareholding" in Turkish cement additives company Idea Kimya, subject to regulatory approval. Commenting on the deal, Dr Andre Ladurelli, CEO of Fosroc, said: “Our strategy is to continue achieving double-digit organic growth in existing businesses and enter new terri...
LH to sell two eastern Indian plants to Birla Corp
LafargeHolcim announces that it has entered into a letter agreement with Birla Corp Ltd, subject to approval by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), for the divestment of certain assets in India for an enterprise value of INR50bn (approximately US$765.8m). The proceeds from the sale of the divestment business will be used to further reduce debt. As announced in April 2015, LafargeHolc...
Shanshui Cement issues first-half profit warning, China
Shanshui Cement on Friday said it expects to record a loss in net profit for the six months ended 30 June 2015 compared to the net profit of the same corresponding period in 2014, adding that the loss is expected to be "relatively significant." Management attributes the loss to two main factors. Firstly, the group has seen sluggish cement demand in the regions where it operates, particular...