Cement News tagged: Corporate
Italcementi incurs substantial trading losses in Italy and Spain
Italcementi has reported a 2012 trading loss compared to a profit in 2011 as the Italian cement major incurs substantial losses in its domestic market and Spain. Italian prices, however, see important improvements. Turnover for the year declined by 3.8 per cent in 2012 to €4480.1m but underlying EBITDA was down by 9.8 per cent to €632.4m. After an impairment charges that jumped from €134.3m...
Domestic demand, higher prices boost DG Khan 1H profit
Pakistan-based cement producer DG Khan Cement reported a rise in second-quarter profit-after-tax up of 53 per cent to PKR1.5bn (US$15.3m), thanks to advances in domestic demand on the back of the government's Public Sector Development Programme and higher prices. This takes half-year profit for FY12-13 to PKR2.9bn, representing a growth of 128 per cent. According to a report of BMA Capital...
China Resources in loan agreement
China Resources Cement has entered into an agreement relating to a HK$200m (US$25.8m) three-year term loan facility with a bank. Under the agreement, it shall be an event of default if China Resources (Holdings) Company Limited ceases to hold at least 51 per cent of the issued share capital of China ResourcesCement. CRH currently owns around 73.34 per cent interest in China Resources.
Credit Suisse upgrades Taiheiyo Cement, Japan
Credit Suisse has upgraded Japan’s leading cement producer Taiheiyo Cement to Outperform from Neutral and sees improved profits for the company in the next fiscal. The house sees a one-off but substantial shortfall versus guidance in the current fiscal year due to higher fixed costs and increases in cost outlays due to production-related issues. However, it expects the company to achieve pro...
Tianrui Cement's net profit falls 38.5% YoY
China Tianrui Group Cement announced that the company saw net profit reach CNY783m (125.9m) in 2012, a YoY decline of 38.5 per cent. The Henan Province-based clinker and cement producer said its operating revenue fell 8.1 per cent YoY to CNY7.59bn, with basic earnings per share of CNY0.33
Titan's profits decline, except in the USA
Titan Cement of Greece reported a 3.6 per cent recovery in turnover for 2012 to €1130.7m, following the 19.2 per cent drop in the previous year. EBITDA, however, continued its double-digit decline and fell by 19.8 per cent to €195.8m. While consumption in its home market of Greece has fallen to less than a quarter of the 2006 peak level, Titan has witnessed a reversal in fortunes in its US ope...
China Resources Cement profit down by 44.4%
China Resources Cement (CRC) reported a 44.4 per cent loss in net profit attributable to shareholders last year to HK$2.32bn (US$299m). In 2012, the firm's turnover rose 9.1 per cent from a year earlier to HK$25.35bn. The sales volume of cement and clinker surged by 26.5 per cent and 36 per cent, respectively. The average cement price, however, decreased 12.23 per cent to CNY324.3/t while cli...
Lower revenues and higher costs hurt QNCC net profit
Qatar National Cement (QNCC) reported a seven per cent decline in 2012 net profit on the back of lower revenues and higher costs. Net profit for the 12 months to the end of December 2012 fell to QAR425.31m (US$116.8m) while revenues were down three per cent to QAR964.28m. The company also registered an eight per cent rise in selling and distribution costs to QAR8.64m, general and administra...
Vicem Hoang Mai Cement seeks to raise 2013 pretax target, Vietnam
Vicem Hoang Mai Cement JSC is seeking approval from its parent company Vietnam Cement Industry Corporation (Vicem) to revise its 2013 pretax target upwards by 4.65 per cent. The company hopes to raise its target to VND90bn (US$4.29m) from the initial VND86bn, its chief accountant, Tran Minh Son, told the Dau Tu Chung Khoan newspaper. Last year Hoang Mai Cement achieved a net profit of VND112...
Boral consolidates Australian construction and cement divisions
Building materials producer Boral Ltd has said it will consolidate its Australian construction materials and cement segments into one Australian division as part of ongoing restructuring initiatives. As a result of the merger, Joseph Goss has been appointed Divisional Managing Director, Boral Construction Materials and Cement, effective 1 April 2013. Mr Murray Read’s position of Divisional ...
South Africa’s cement industry body to close
South Africa’s Cement and Concrete Institute (C&CI) is to close down following the withdrawal of funding from some of the key funding members, local producer AfriSam disclosed in a statement on Friday. AfriSam said it believes in the value that the C&CI offered the construction industry and explored various other options in an effort to sustain this industry body. "Unfortunately, no soluti...
HASLE Refractories opens India subsidiary
HASLE Refractories A/S, former FLSmidth company, has established a subsidiary in Hyderabad, India. HASLE Refractories India Pvt Ltd will be headed by Mr Sumanta Mukhopadhyay, who has more than 20 years of experience in industry. Harpreet Singh, former agent for HASLE Refractories in India, has been designated as group senior advisor with special tasks in the Middle East. Owner of HASL...
Holcim ahead despite Europe slowdown
Annual results released by Holcim earlier this week show that cement sales for the Swiss major in 2012 were ahead in spite of lower European volumes and political instability in the Middle East. Turnover during the year rose by 3.9 per cent in 2012 to CHF21,544m and in euro terms the increase was 6.4 per cent to EUR17,867m. Operating EBITDA improved 6.2 per cent to EUR3502m before restructu...
Bamburi Cement 2012 pretax profit down 15%
Bamburi Cement has reported a 15 per cent decline in pretax profit for full year 2012 to KES7.17bn (US$83m) as it is impacted by lower gains on its foreign currency holdings, Reuters has reported. Bamburi Cement, which is part of the Lafarge group, said turnover edged up four per cent to KES37.bn but higher costs drove operating down 14 per cent. "The group anticipates underlying cement ...
Russia’s Antimonopoly Service blocks Siberian deal
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has disallowed a deal for cement producer Russkyaya Tsementanaya Kompania to acquire a 100 per cent shareholding in fellow cement producer Iskitimtsement, according to local press reports. In its ruling, the FAS said it believed the deal would result in limited competition in the Siberian cement market and increased prices, SKIRIN news agency repo...
Tongli Cements reports decline in 2012 profit
Henan Tongli Cement has reported a 2.38 per cent decline in operating revenue for 2012 to CNY4.12bn (US$661m). The company's net profit for 2012 fell 31.79 per cent YoY to CNY164m, with basic earnings per share of RMB 0.5, according to reports in China Business Newswire. Tongli Cement plans to convert three shares from the capital surplus for every ten shares based on its share capital of ...