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PPC

PPC has reported a two per cent rise in cement sales for the six months ending March 2014. Revenue came in at ZAR4.16bn (US$0.4bn), an increase of nine per cent on the same period last year. EBITD...
Corporate - 27 May 2014

AfriSam launches Supplier Development Centre

AfriSam recently successfully opened its Supplier Development Centre in support of the company’s Enterprise Development Programme which has been implemented as part of a transformation drive in th...
News - 22 May 2014

PPC: first-half cement sales edge higher

PPC announced its group cement sales were two per cent higher for the first half of the year to the end of March 2014. Improvements in export sales and the consolidation of sales from its Rwanda o...
News - 20 May 2014

Crossing the Andes

Colombia’s cement producers are poised to benefit from the government’s ongoing investment in housing and road networks. The country’s geography and favourable demographics also hold the promise o...
Articles - 20 May 2014

Mamba Cement to build new South Africa plant

Nedbank Capital and the Bank of China Johannesburg have jointly announced the raising of debt capital to fund a new entrant into the South African cement industry. The project is being undertake...
News - 14 May 2014

India: cement firms need solutions to gypsum shortage

According to a research report jointly published on 30 April by lobby group Confederation of Indian Industry and consulting firm AT Kerney, India has a scarcity of gypsum resources, which does not...
News - 09 May 2014

HeidelbergCement shows strong recovery in Europe

HeidelbergCement's first quarter turnover improved by 5.7 per cent to EUR2749.8m and the EBITDA improved by 15.7 per cent to EUR228.8m and the trading profit jumped from EUR9.3m to EUR50.4m. Th...
News - 08 May 2014

Lafarge 1Q14 EBITDA up 21%

Lafarge announced that its 1Q14 sales were down two per cent to EUR2633m (up nine per cent like-for-like YoY). EBITDA was stable at EUR343m and current operating income was up 14 per cent to EUR14...
News - 06 May 2014

New chairperson for Lafarge South Africa

After two terms in office, Nonkqubela Mazwai has stepped down as chairperson of Lafarge South Africa and handed the reins over to Thandi Orleyn, previously a non-executive director of Lafarge Mini...
News - 02 May 2014

PPC

PPC has awarded two contracts to Tenova TAKREF Africa to supply reverse-pulse bag filters to replace existing electrostatic precipitators (ESPs) at its De Hoek cement plant in the Western Cape and...
Corporate - 02 May 2014