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Leading cement producers: 2017 overview

On the whole, 2017 was a year of growth for the world's leading cement producers. HeidelbergCement saw its revenues advance by 13.8 per cent YoY, while China's Anhui Conch reported sales growth of...
News - 29 March 2018

Changing world, changing industry

How much influence do modern-day global trends such as climate change, shifting economic power and urbanisation exert on the cement sector? This article looks at several key megatrends and their i...
Articles - 28 March 2018

Central Asia: the Chinese way

Central Asia stands at the brink of an economic and trading revolution as China looks west and implements its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative to reach across into Eurasia and Africa. To drive t...
Articles - 26 March 2018

Dangote

2017 was a “record year” for Dangote with revenues up 31 per cent YoY to NGN805.6bn (US$2243m) and EBITDA advancing by 50.9 per cent to NGN388.1bn. In Nigeria cement volumes fell 15.9 per cent, bu...
Corporate - 26 March 2018

Sephaku Cement posts 16% fall in profits in 2017

Dangote-owned Sephaku Cement has posted a 16 per cent drop in its full-year profit, despite revenue increasing by 3.7 per cent to ZAR2.37bn (US$201.1m) in 2017. The South Africa-based company tu...
News - 23 March 2018

Export boost for Sönmez

Sönmez Çimento improved its export capability by constructing a new port at the Yumurtalık TAYSEB Freezone in Adana, Turkey. Designed with both high loading rates and the environment in mind, usin...
Articles - 19 March 2018

Siam City Cement posts 28% revenue increase 43% net profit dip 2017

Siam City Cement announced a total consolidated revenue increase of 25.8 per cent to THB43.885bn in 2017 from THB34.896bn the previous year. Net sales increased 27.6 per cent YoY to THB43.634bn fr...
News - 14 March 2018

LafargeHolcim targets better growth

LafargeHolcim's CEO, Jan Jenisch, announced this week that the company is writing off its US$4.04bn impairment charge in the 4Q17 and is establishing a five-year strategy up to 2022 'Building ...
News - 09 March 2018

A path towards value creation - part 2

Following on from the first part of this article (ICR February 2018/ CemNet 28 February 2018 ), McKinsey & Co establishes the four strategic levers for value creation and explains why now is an id...
Articles - 08 March 2018

Facing an oversupply challenge

Indonesia’s cement market saw a significant expansion in 2017 despite economic woes. While the country’s property market performs below par, cement producers are pinning their hopes on the governm...
Articles - 08 March 2018