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Shareholders approved Fancesa restructuring

19 April 2021, Published under Cement News

Bolivia-based Fancesa’s shareholders have unanimously approved the restructuring proposed by the company’s Board of Directors, said Armin Cortez, chairman of the Board of Shareholders. Mr Cortez explained that the project includes a restructuring in the administration and “in the management of human resources”, in addition to other elements such as the internal business relationship between the companies “that are managed separately but that correspond to the same owner, which is Fancesa.”...

CNBM begins restructuring cement business

05 March 2021, Published under Cement News

China National Building Materials (CNBM) has begun restructuring its cement business and has subsequently sold China United Cement, Sinoma Cement, as well as a 99.9 per cent stake in South Cement and a 95.7 per cent stake in Southwest Cement, to its Xinjiang Tianshan Cement subsidiary for a total consideration of CNY88.25bn (US$13.64bn).  Tianshan Cement will issue 442,343,026 consideration shares for the amount, alongside a cash consideration of CNY3.97bn. CNBM will have an 87.5 per cent...

EAPC restructuring enters final phase

03 September 2020, Published under Cement News

The restructuring of East African Portland Cement Co (EAPC)’s human resources in Kenya is entering its final phase with 270 employees seeing their permanent contracts converted to contract terms. Speaking during a consultative meeting with the permanent staff, the acting MD, Stephen Nthei, said the strategic objective is to reduce administrative costs as outlined in the turnaround strategy adopted by the board and to comply with regulations outlined by the State Corporations Advisory Commit...

UltraTech Cement

26 September 2019, Published under Cement News

UltraTech Cement, part of the Aditya Birla Group, is close to finalising the deal to sell its stake in Emirates Cement Bangladesh to HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd. The price of the stake has reportedly been set at US$32.1m. UltraTech first produced cement in Bangladesh following Aditya Birla’s acquisition of ETA Star Cement in 2010, when it bought into ETA’s Bangladeshi subsidiary, Emirates Cement, which operates a 0.5Mta grinding plant in Dhaka. HeidelbergCement Bangladesh Ltd has two ...

East African Portland Cement withdraws dismissing workforce notice

12 August 2019, Published under Cement News

Kenya’s East African Portland Cement Co (EAPCC) has withdrawn the notice about the plan to dismiss its workforce of 800, saying it would make a further statement about restructuring the company. "(The) notice has been withdrawn," Acting Managing Director, Stephen Nthei said in a letter addressed to the Kenya Chemical Workers Union and seen by Reuters. "A fresh replacement notice on the intended company restructuring and staff rationalisation shall be circulated in due course," the letter s...

Disposals or growth for CRH?

08 June 2018, Published under Cement News

Last week, CRH made an announcement that it was creating a new global Building Products division which would start operation in January 2019 by merging its European Distribution and Americas Products divisions. Due to the company's enlarged scale, it sees opportunities for further value creation for its shareholders and is looking to maximise its network to improve its global products business. This comes after several years of re-positioning itself post-financial crisis when several of th...

Cemex to restructure Puerto Rico operations

11 January 2018, Published under Cement News

Following its significant fall in domestic cement sales, Cemex Puerto Rico has announced changes to its operations effective this month. While the company did not disclose further details about the number of dismissals, it aims to protect the highest number of jobs possible. The cement producer will also modify operations at its Ponce works, which will operate as a grinding unit. Cemex Puerto Rico President, Jorge Rojas, the current conditions in the local market prevent the compa...

China National Building Materials (CNBM)

01 November 2017, Published under Cement News

China National Building Materials Group (CNBM) is in talks to integrate some of its 15 subsidiaries. The move follows the announcement in September this year of the merger between CNBM and China National Materials Group, another state-owned building materials player, also known as Sinoma. Of the 15 subsidiaries in question, three are listed overseas. T he aim of the merger is to consolidate and strengthen the core business of each subsidiary, boosting profitability and maximising their va...

Cemex

02 September 2016, Published under Cement News

Cemex investment in Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua is being restructured, with Cemex taking a 23 per cent direct stake as well as a minority interest in Camcem, which will be the majority shareholder in Cementos de Chihuahua. Cementos de Chihuahua will remain a quoted company. Cementos de Chihuahua saw its turnover for the first six months decline by 1.4 per cent to US$333.4m, with the US operations registering a 4.2 per cent improvement to US$235.4m, while the Mexican activities registered ...

LafargeHolcim receives go-ahead for Indian streamlining

21 July 2016, Published under Cement News

India’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has given its blessing to LafargeHolcim’s proposals to simplify the structure of its remaining operations in the country. The company is now awaiting the formal sign-off of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board, but this is expected shortly. Under the proposals, LafargeHolcim will increase its stake in Ambuja to 61.14 per cent, while Ambuja itself will take a 50.05 per cent stake in ACC. Thus, ACC will become a subsidiary of Ambuja, which its...