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CMS sees 1Q revenues up by 6%

23 May 2022, Published under Cement News

Malaysia-based Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad (CMS) reported a revenue of MYR214.04m for the first quarter ended 31 March 2022, up six per cent YoY from MYR202.06m. Profit before tax improved to MYR83.86m in the 1Q22 from MYR82.56m in the 1Q21 due to a better performance by the Cement and Road Maintenance businesses and a higher share of results of associates by MYR15.42m. Although higher raw material costs and global supply chain constraints challenged the company’s operations, key initiat...

CMS raises cement price due to higher costs

14 February 2022, Published under Cement News

Malaysia-based CMS is introducing a 10 per cent price hike from 17 February, the first one since 2016, according to Market Screener. The company attributes the need to raise prices to significant and sustained increase raw materials, packaging and freight costs. In the last year, cement production costs have increased by nine per cent and show no signs of abating yet. The Baltic Dry Index has shown a rate rise of 64 per cent in 2021 while the sack kraft paper index was up 33 per cent in ...

Malaysia’s CMS posts 284% rise in 2Q net profit

01 September 2021, Published under Cement News

Malaysia-based Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad (CMS) reported a 32.3 per cent rise in 2Q revenues from MYR139.878m in the 2Q20 to MYR185.001m in the 2Q21. Profit before tax tripled from MYR18.479m to MYR57.471m over the same period. Profit attributable to equity holders of the parent company was up 283.7 per cent to MYR47.39m from MYR16.707m. In the first half of 2021 the company saw revenue edge up 17.5 per cent from MYR329.322m to MYR387.058m while profit before tax advanced from MYR36.573m to ...

CMS sees 51% rise in profit

15 May 2018, Published under Cement News

Malaysia-based Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) has reported a 15.4 per cent rise in unaudited revenues to MYR354.987m (US$89.7m) in the quarter ended 31 March 2018 from MYR307.679m in the corresponding quarter of 2017. Profit before tax rose 27.8 per cent from MYR44.852m in 1Q17 to MYR56.958 in 1Q18 while profit attributable to ordinary shareholders of the parents advanced by 50.7 per cent to MYR38.977m from MYR25.864m in 1Q17.  “For FY2018, we also expect to see upsides for quarry produc...

Cahya Mata Sarawak's stable transition

09 April 2018, Published under Cement News

This week, Malaysia-based Cahya Mata Sarawak Berhad (CMS) reported FY17 revenues up four per cent at MYR11.16bn (US$415.7m). Revenues improved with the first full year operation of the company's 1Mta grinding section, which has converted its clinker plant at Mambong, outside Kuching, to an integrated works. Opened in November 2016, the MYR190m facility has raised CMS's overall cement capacity by 60 per cent to 2.75Mta ( read the full article in ICR May 2017.) There also has been a ...

CMS sees 3Q profit rise

30 November 2017, Published under Cement News

Malaysia's Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS) reported 3Q17 consolidated revenues of MYR347.968m (US$85.12m), down 2.3 per cent from MYR356.06m in 3Q16. Profit before tax edged up from MYR94.744m in 3Q16 to MYR95.58m one year later while profit attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent company rose 5.7 per cent YoY from MYR58.715m to MYR62.04m. The group attributed the improvement in profit to lower production costs in the cement division. In its outlook, CMS expected the operat...

CMS reports rise in 2Q net profit

29 August 2017, Published under Cement News

Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd's (CMS) net profit jumped to MYR64.73m (US$15.2m) in the second quarter ended June this year from MYR7.9m in the same period a year ago. The increase is mainly attributed to lower handling costs, cheaper imported clinker bricks and lower clinker production costs brought about by the stable production and lower coal prices in the cement, construction and road maintenance, construction materials and trading divisions as well as improved sales in the property developme...

CMS to benefit from Pan Borneo Highway construction

25 April 2017, Published under Cement News

Construction of the Pan Borneo Highway in Malaysia is expected to boost demand for construction materials including an additional million tonnes of cement. Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd (CMS), which is the sole cement producer in the country’s largest state, will be the main beneficiary of the mega highway project. "It is estimated that the project would need up to a million tonnes of cement over the course of the construction of the Pan Borneo Highway [in Sarawak], said Richard Curtis, manag...

Improving Malaysia’s supply

27 March 2017, Published under Cement News

In May 2016 Christian Pfeiffer successfully handed over the new cement grinding plant of Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS) in Malaysia. The new unit will help CMS to increase its cement output and supply the market with a range of cement products. B y Christian Pfeiffer, Germany. Figure 1: draft layout of the new cement grinding plant for CMS, Malaysia The new cement grinding unit for Cahya Mata Sarawak (CMS) is the first turnkey cement grinding plant in Malaysia supplied by Christian P...

Malaysia: CMS Cement division sees 14% drop in 9M16 pretax profits

01 December 2016, Published under Cement News

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 lower sales volumes, expenditure linked to the new cement mill and an unscheduled shutdown of the clink...