Cement News tagged under: Greece
Greece opposition party meets with Heracles employees05 April 2013, Published under Cement NewsThe general secretary of Greece’s Opposition Communist Party of Greece (KKE), Aleka Papariga, has met with representatives of the Heracles Cement plant at the party's headquarters in Perissos and expressed solidarity with those being made redundant following news of the cement plant's permanent closure. The KKE stated that the sector's trade unions, as well as related sectors, should offer their backing to workers who were laid off, Athens News Agency reported. Last month, Lafarge's Greek ... |
Heracles to permanently close Halkis cement works, Greece27 March 2013, Published under Cement NewsHeracles Cement, the largest cement producer in Greece, is to permanently close the doors on its Halkis cement plant as the company restructures its business to adjust to the struggling domestic construction and cement sectors. The 2.6Mta Halkis plant has been idle since July 2011 and management have now made the decision to officially cease operations, as of 26 March 2013. The closure will result in job losses for 236 members of staff. The company stated that: “This decision comes afte... |
Titan Cement denies headquarter move12 March 2013, Published under Cement NewsTitan Cement has denied reports in the press that it is moving its headquarters from Greece. In response to reports on online and printed media the country's second-largest cement producer said in statement released yesterday that: "it is not within its intentions to move its headquarters from Greece.” Last week, Titan reported that demand for building materials in its troubled domestic market declined by about 35 per cent YoY in 2012. “The severe recession of the Greek economy has direct... |
Titan's profits decline, except in the USA05 March 2013, Published under Cement NewsTitan 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 operations. In spite of a swing from a €11.9m loss on foreign exchange to a €1.5m profit, there was ... |
Titan raises EUR200m in bond issue04 January 2013, Published under Cement NewsGreece-based cement producer Titan Cement Co on Thursday successfully concluded a EUR200m bond issue. The new four-year corporate bond (arranged by Eurobank Ergasias SA, Alpha Bank AS and Credit Suisse) matures in January 2017 and has an 8.75 per cent coupon. Part of the proceeds will be used to repay a previous bond maturing later this year, Eurobank said in a statement, adding that the issue was 2.9 times oversubscribed, with considerable interest from large private banking clients a... |
Titan successfully concludes issuance of new EUR200m notes19 December 2012, Published under Cement NewsGreece-based cement producer Titan has successfully concluded the issuance of new €200m guaranteed notes, due in January 2017. Demand from international and domestic institutional and private investors ensured that the €100m minimum issue, as executed through the exchange of existing and issuance of new notes via the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, was oversubscribed 2.9 times. The new notes bear a coupon of 8.75 per cent, the minimum rate set in the offering. The successful conclusion of th... |
Titan suffers from Mediterranean markets14 November 2012, Published under Cement NewsTitan's turnover for the first nine months of 2012 edged ahead by 1% to €847m, but the EBITDA fell by 26.6% to €162.5m. The EBITDA fell by €36.6m in the Eastern Mediterranean, by €19.1m in South Eastern Europe and by €9.5m in Greece, but recovered by €6.6m in the USA. As a result, the group pre-tax profit fell by 65.7% to €26.1m. The net attributable profit dropped by 96.3% from €52.9m to just €2, after a €6.4m loss in the third quarter. Net debt at the end of September was 13.2% lower than ... |
Greek 1H12 construction contracts 12%12 September 2012, Published under Cement NewsGreek construction activity shrank by an annual 12 per cent in the first half of 2012, leaving the industry on course for a seventh consecutive year of contraction as the cement industry heads towards a quarter of 2006 peak levels. Building activity in volume terms contracted to 9Mm3 in the six months to June from 10.2Mm3 a year earlier, statistics service ELSTAT said on Tuesday. It had stood at 36Mm3 in the first half of 2005, the sector's last year of expansion. Construction ha... |
The US recovery is the one bright spot for Titan30 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsTitan’s first half turnover declined by 1.6 per cent to €547.9m and the EBITDA fell by 21.3 per cent to €112.1m, as the cement producer is caught amid a continued downturn it its domestic market of Greece and US operations prove to be its only bright spot. Titan’s trading profit fell 39.5 per cent to €50.5m, but the net financial charge dropped by 54.9 per cent to €20.5m, reducing the fall in the pre-tax profit to 21.8 per cent to €29.5m. The net attributable profit emerged 65.3 per cent l... |
Texas Industries asks Commerce to probe Greece, Republic of Korea imports28 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsTexas Industries, through its subsidiary TXI Operations, submitted a letter on 24 August 2012 to the Department of Commerce and the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center, asking that Commerce self-initiate anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of "unfairly priced" Portland cement from Greece and the Republic of Korea into the Texas region, USA. TXI believes that imports from Greece and Korea are being sold at less than fair value (ie, dumped) and benefit from government subsid... |