Creditors seek debt rescheduling for Hyundai Cement
Creditors of Korea-based company Hyundai Cement Co. are seeking a debt workout for the country’s No. 3 cement maker as it is grappling with rising debt and a debt guarantee for its affiliate, industry sources said Friday.
The creditors will make a final decision on whether they will put the company under debt workout next week, they said.
The creditors said Hyundai Cement and its affiliate, Sungwoo Engineering & Construction Co, have been facing financial difficulty due to a slowdown in the local construction sector.
Hyundai Cement, which started as a cement business unit of Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co. in 1958, was spun off from the construction company in 1969.
It posted a profit of 17.4 billion won (US$14.5 million) last year, bouncing back from a loss of 68.2 billion won a year earlier.
But the company, which has an annual capacity of 7 million tons of cement, recently shut down some of its plants in the wake of the slumping construction sector. Hyundai Cement also runs a leisure-related business. Published under Cement News
