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Maple Leaf Cement's new line on-stream in May 2019

19 April 2018, Published under Cement News

Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd (MLCF) has informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) about the progress achieved on the implementation of the expansion of its Iskandarabad plant, which is estimated to come online mid-2019. The 7300tpd dry-process grey clinker line, a brownfield expansion at the company's existing site in Punjab, will take total grey cement capacity at the plant to 18,000tpd. The total project cost is estimated at PKR25bn (US$216m), which includes the impact of the recent dev...

Maple Leaf Cement profit falls in 6MFY17-18

16 February 2018, Published under Cement News

Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd (MLCF) announced its half-year financial result for the period ended 31 December 2017 today. It reported earnings o f a profit after tax of PKR2.24bn (US$20.2m) compared to PKR2.62bn (US$23.6m) earned in corresponding period last year showing a fall of 14.50 per cent on YoY basis. According to financial result sent to Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), the company also announced an interim cash dividend of PKR1.50/share. Its net sales increased to PKR12.27bn d...

Maple Leaf reports growth in 1QFY18

26 October 2017, Published under Cement News

Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd (MLCF) has reported that during 1QFY18 its profit after tax (PAT) stood at PKR1.05bn (US$9.9m), showing a growth of 47 per cent on QoQ basis.   MLCF incurred selling and distribution expense of PKR266m and administrative expense of PKR150m during this quarter against PKR373m and PKR122m incurred respectively in 1QFY17.

Maple Leaf FY17 net profit dips

14 September 2017, Published under Cement News

Pakistan-based Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd (MLCF) reported a net profit of PKR4.77bn in FY17, a decline of two per cent on a YoY basis. Revenue was up by two per cent YoY to PKR24.0bn for FY17. Finance costs of the company declined by 27 per cent YoY to PKR318m during FY17.  Along with the results the company also announced a final cash dividend of PKR1.75/share taking cumulative DPS to PKR3.75/share (compared to a DPS of PKR4.0 in FY16).  

Maple Leaf issues right share to finance expansion

16 August 2017, Published under Cement News

Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd will issue a right share to partially finance a 7300tpd clinker production line at Daud Khel in Iskanderabad, Mianwali, Pakistan. According to a statement to the Pakistan Stock Exchange, Maple Leaf's Board of Directors has recommended an issuance of 12.5 per cent right shares by offering 65,966,740 right shares to existing ordinary shareholders a price of PKR65/share (including a premium of PKR55/per share) in proportion of 12.50 right shares for every 100 ord...

Mixed 1HFY17 results for Pakistani cement producers

16 February 2017, Published under Cement News

The latest series of business results of Pakistani cement producers show a mixed performance during the first half of the 2017 financial year. DG Khan Cement Company DG Khan Cement Company Ltd (DGKC) has announced its 1HFY17 financial result. It reported a profit after tax (PAT) of PKR4.506bn (US$42.9m) during 1HFY17 against a PAT of PKR4.080bn during 1HFY16, up 10 per cent, YoY. In line with trends, DGKC did not declare any dividend along with its 1HFY17 results.   The company's...

Maple Leaf Cement to raise cement capacity

20 January 2017, Published under Cement News

Maple Leaf Cement Factory Ltd (MLCF) was in the news this week when FLSmidth announced it had secured an EPC contract for a new 7300tpd third line at Daud Khel in Iskanderabad, Mianwali, Pakistan, which will be completed before the end of 2018. The brownfield project is an expansion that is estimated to cost PKR20bn (US$190.8m) and will take grey cement capacity at the factory up to 18,000tpd, the equivalent of around 5.9Mta. Started in 1956, MLCF was established in northern Pakistan as ...

Pakistan: gas price reduction to benefit cement manufacturers

28 November 2016, Published under Cement News

The Federal Minister for Finance, Senator Mohammed Ishaq Dar, approved a gas price reduction at a meeting of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC). The decision will see prices fall from PKR600 to PKR400/mBTU. Lucky Cement, DG Khan Cement and Maple Leaf Cement, each of which operate captive gas-fired power facilities, are set to benefit from the decision with the impact on profitability estimated at 4.1 per cent, 1.6 per cent and 1.2 per cent, respectively.

Pakistan: Maple Leaf and Thatta Cement 1QFY16/17

26 October 2016, Published under Cement News

Pakistan's Maple Leaf Cement Factory earned profit after tax of PKR1.185bn (US$11.3m) in July- September 2016 compared to PKR846.72m in the corresponding period last year, representing a 40 per cent rise. The company's net sales increased to PKR5.52bn from PKR4.96bn in 1QFY15/16. It incurred higher distribution cost of PKR373m and administrative expenses of PKR124m from PKR303m and PKR112m during this comparative period. In addition, its financing cost fell to PKR52m from PKR185.9m of sam...

Pakistan: Maple Leaf and Lucky Cement plan power plants

24 October 2016, Published under Cement News

Pakistan's two leading cement manufacturers, Maple Leaf Cement Factory (MLCF) and Lucky Cement, have approached the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) to obtain a formal generation licence for setting up power plants in the country. Maple Leaf Cement has earlier announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary company, Maple Leaf Power Ltd, had signed an agreement with plant supplier Sinoma Energy Conservation Ltd, China, to build a 40MW imported coal-fired power plant at Isk...