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Canada: McInnis Cement CEO quits after new plant cost overruns

05 August 2016, Published under Cement News

The chief executive officer of McInnis Cement, Christian Gagnon, has stepped down after it emerged that the cost of constructing the company’s new 2.2Mta Port-Daniel integrated plant had gone over budget by CAD450m (US$346m). McInnis’s investment was partly financed by government bodies, including Quebecois provincial authorities and also included a CAD360m (US$277m) loan from the National Bank of Canada. According to Radio-Canada, when news of the spiralling costs of the project first...

Total cost of ownership

13 May 2014, Published under Cement News

Dr Clark returns to the saga of the fictional cement company, Ruritania Cement, where problems have been encountered during the operational phase of the cement manufacturing project. Counting the total cost of ownership Mr Entrepreneur, one of the richest people in Ruritania, and indeed the continent of Pangea, was not best pleased. It was now three years since he had looked on with pleasure as the first truck loaded with cement rolled out of the packing plant of his new cement ...