Cement News tagged: Corporate
Blackstone, CVC reportedly among bidders for Lafarge and Holcim assets
Groups led by Blackstone Group LP and CVC Capital Partners Ltd have submitted bids for assets put up for sale by Lafarge and Holcim, according to reports by Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter. Blackstone teamed up with Cinven Ltd and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, while CVC made a bid with Singapore’s sovereign-wealth fund GIC, the undisclosed sources said. CRH, the Dubl...
Cameroon: first raw materials arrive at Dangote’s Douala plant
Dangote Cement has received the first cargoes of raw materials for its new cement works at Douala, Cameroon. The delivery consists of clinker, gypsum and pozzolan, produced in the 27ha quarry in Tombel, in the south-west of the country. Dangote has an exploitation agreement for five years for the location. Over the past two weeks, the company has been carrying out equipment tests in the new ...
Johnston named PCA Government Affairs Vice President
Portland Cement Association named A Todd Johnston as vice president for government affairs, effective 19 January 2015. Based in the association's Washington office, he will represent PCA and its members with the federal government. Johnston comes to PCA with a strong record of experience and accomplishments in state government, industry, and in Congress, the association highlights. Most rec...
Cementir Holding plans rights issue, Italy
Cementir Holding is to ask it shareholders to approve a rights issue of up to EUR300m, the Italian cement major has said. The board is calling an extraordinary shareholders’ meeting on 23 February 2015 to mandate the board for the rights issue to be carried out in five years, in one or more tranches, with pre-emptive rights, Cementir said in a statement. “The purpose of this proposal is to i...
BBMG Corp issues profit warning, China
Chinese cement producer and property developer BBMG Corp said its 2014 net profit is expected to fall by up to 25 per cent from the year earlier, on weaker sales in the property market. The company did not give exact figures for its profit warnings, but said it posted a net profit of CNY3.2bn (US$523m) in 2013.
FLSmidth sells Cembrit Holding A/S
FLSmidth has signed an agreement with a company in the Solix Group AB to sell all shares in Cembrit Holding A/S, one of the leading distributors and manufacturers of fibre-cement products in Europe, for DKK1.1bn (EUR147.9m). The sale of Cembrit concludes FLSmidth's divestment of building materials companies, a process that started 10 years ago by the divestment of Aalborg Portland and Uni...
UltraTech to not bid for Lafarge/Holcim assets
UltraTech has pulled out of the race to buy cement assets up for sale as Lafarge and Holcim’s proposed merger, the Indian cement major confirmed to local press. An UltraTech spokesperson told ET Now that the company has not participated in the final round of bidding. The company had reportedly previously expressed an interest in buying assets in Brazil and Philippines and had placed a b...
Yanbu Cement 4Q net earnings up 20.63%
Saudi producer Yanbu Cement Co posted SAR193m (US$51.4m) net earnings for the fourth quarter of 2014, rising 20.63 per cent from SAR160m in 4Q13 and 18.4 per cent from SAR163m in 3Q14. However, full-year net earnings fell 2.31 per cent YoY from SAR821m to SAR802m. Earnings per share (EPS) decreased from SAR5.21 to SAR 5.09. The cement producer attributed fourth quarter profit growth to...
Thailand: TPI Polene bond issue
Thai-based cement producer TPI Polene says it will issue two tranches of THB6bn (US$182.5m) worth of debentures. Prachai Leophairatana, chief executive of TPI, said the first tranche would be a four-year debenture carrying a coupon rate of 4.85 per cent while the second tranche for five years carries a coupon rate of 5.20 per cent. Both tranches of debentures are senior unsecured debts...
Conch places new order with Claudius Peters, Myanmar
Conch has awarded Claudius Peters an order for the supply of an ETA cooler to be installed in Myanmar. This new order takes the total number of Claudius Peters ETA coolers ordered by Conch to 22. The new order will be Conch's first ETA cooler, installed outside of China.
Sançim Cimento acquired by Askale Çimento.
Turkish cement producer Sançim Cimento (Sançim) has been acquired by Askale Çimento, according to local news reports. The acquisition follows the recently aborted acquisition of Sancim by domestic cement major Cimsa, for EUR185.14m. The new owner of Sancim is a joint-venture of Sonmez Holding (43 per cent), Aunde Teknik (38 per cent), E.N.A. Tekstil (10 per cent) and Umut Insaat (nine per cent).
CRH announces 2014 acquisition spend of EUR0.19bn
CRH announced a total 2014 acquisition and investment spend of EUR0.19bn, reflecting the completion of 21 transactions. On the divestment front, the group undertook 16 transactions and realised total disposal proceeds of EUR0.35bn. Commenting on these developments, Albert Manifold, CRH Chief Executive, said: “In August 2014 we announced a multi-year EUR1.5 billion to EUR2 billion divestment p...
Hope celebrates second anniversary with major investment
Hope Construction Materials is investing GBP14m (EUR17.9m) to boost production at its Hope Works cement plant in the Derbyshire Peak District, UK. The company, which yesterday celebrated its second year of cement production, has kicked off several major capital projects which will help improve the plant’s sustainability, improve the efficiency of the operation and help to secure future suppl...
Fitch Ratings revises China Shanshui Cement Outlook
Fitch Ratings has revised China Shanshui Cement Group Ltd's Outlook to Negative from Stable. Meanwhile, Shanshui's Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) and senior unsecured ratings have been affirmed at 'BB'. The Outlook revision reflects Shanshui's slower-than-expected deleveraging process, mainly driven by weaker cash flow generation due to the lower cement average sell price (ASP). "We e...
Paraguay: INC plans to raise capacity
Paraguay’s Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC) plans to increase its production capacity from 50,000 to 70,000 bags/day in 2015, according to Jorge Méndez, head of the company. This is expected to create a good supply to the market and lower prices by the end of the year. Although the company is forecast to have an accumulated deficit of nearly PYG1bn, due to successive years of losses, he ...
Puerto Rico: Cemex cement sales hit 55-year low
In 2014, Cemex cement sales in Puerto Rico fell 10.6 per cent YoY to 24,000t, according to Enrique García, president of Cemex Puerto Rico. The 55-year low has prompted the country’s largest cement producer to take action, including laying off 18 staff at its Ponce plant. "We are being proactive after a thorough analysis of the subject. The aim is to ensure the future of our company. In ...