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Siam Cement to buy Vietnamese packaging company

07 April 2020, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement is to acquire a Vietnamese packaging materials maker, Bien Hoa Packaging. The group will purchase Bien Hoa Packaging through a joint venture with top Japanese cardboard maker Rengo. Siam Cement said the size of the deal has yet to be determined, but estimated it would be less than 15 per cent of the Thai group's total assets as of the end of December, which came to THB634.7bn (US$19.2m). Bien Hoa produces 90,000t of cardboard boxes and 10,000t of food packaging materials a year...

Siam Cement Group Cambodian sales revenues top US$226m in 1H19

31 July 2019, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement Group Public Co (SCG) announced sales revenues of US$226m in Cambodia in 1H19, an increase of 11 per cent on 1H18, mainly due to higher cement sales. SCG raised US$116m in the 2Q19 with the help of the company's recently launched Interior Solution scheme to design and provide material specification services for residential and commercial buildings. Currently, the construction sector is booming in Cambodia. A total of 2047 construction projects worth US$3.39bn were approved in ...

SCG launches SCG Super Cement in Vietnam

02 May 2019, Published under Cement News

Thai cement producer, Siam Cement Group (SCG) has recently launched its SCG Super Cement brand to customers in central Vietnam. The new product applies SCG Nano Tech, which “develops molecules of cement on the nano-scale to create extremely tight bonding ability, which in turns reduces the quantity of pores during concrete making. This advancement is important for construction works, as pores created during concrete mixing are the major causes of cracks and leaks, especially under the impa...

Siam Cement targets floating solar power projects

01 March 2019, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement Group (SCG) aims to diversify by developing floating solar modules that it hopes to supply as 1GW solar farms to state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). EGAT is planning to eight hydroelectric dams in Thailand over the next 20 years. EGAT announced in January that installation of the first project, a 45MW farm at the Sirindhorn Dam on the country's eastern border, would begin in April, with four others following soon after. But the utility still has not pi...

Siam Cement Group plans to expand products and services in Cambodia

12 February 2019, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement Group (SCG) plans to expand new service solutions and retail operations in Cambodia to tap opportunities in the country's growing construction industry and changing consumers' behaviour. According to, SCG's Managing Director of Kampot Cement plant, Somwang Manpimonchai, “Our target this year in Cambodia is to maintain existing businesses which produce and sell our products, and to add new service solutions and introduce retail or B2C to the market." As part of a five-year pla...

Siam Cement Group's Philippine sales rise 46% July-September 2018

29 October 2018, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement Group (SCG) of Thailand has reported a cement sales increase between July-September 2018 of 46 per cent, boosted by the government's 'Build, Build, Build' in the Philippines. SCG’s Philippine sales from July to September expanded by to PHP5.09bn (US$94.8m), from PHP3.48bn during the same period last year. This put its total sales in the Philippines at PHP14.29bn after three quarters, 34 per cent better than the previous year's PHP10.62bn. SCG's sales in southeast Asia, excludin...

Siam Cement expect stronger growth in Myanmar in 2019

17 September 2018, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement Group (SCG) expects its growth target for 2018 in Myanmar to be affected by inflation and flooding. This is despite seeing cement sales in Mon state rise nine per cent YoY and revenues of US$152m in the 1H18, which were up 14 per cent on 1H17. Surachai Pomjindachote, SCG's Myanmar director, said," For this year, Myanmar is facing floods and inflation, so total growth of the country might fall below target. But in 2019, we foresee higher growth compared to this year's. "Myanmar'...

Siam Cement's 2Q18 profits down 6%

26 July 2018, Published under Cement News

Siam Cement posted a six per cent drop in second-quarter profit on Wednesday, hurt by weak seasonal cement demand and its chemical business. Revenue from the cement and building materials business increased five per cent to THB44.6bn (US$1.34bn) due to demand from Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines but was held back by weak demand in Thailand. Profit came in at THB12.4bn for the three months ended June, compared with THB13.2bn a year earlier. Siam Cement's revenue rose 11 per cent i...

Thai King increases stake in Siam Cement

19 June 2018, Published under Cement News

Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun has increased his stake in Siam Cement Group from 0.8 per cent to 30.8 per cent, and has become the top shareholder. King Vajiralongkorn took over all of the shares previously controlled by the Crown Property Bureau (CPB), an entity that manages royal assets, according to Nikkei. The transfer will not result in any change to the operations of the company. Alongside Siam Cement, King Vajiralongkorn also assumed control over the CPB...

Siam Cement to appoint a new director

15 March 2018, Published under Cement News

Air Chief Marshal, Satitpong Sukwimol, a close aide of Thailand’s King Vajiralongkorn, is awaiting shareholder approval to become a director of Siam Cement Group (SCG). Mr Sukwimol has previously served on the board of the national flag carrier, Thai Airways International from 2009-13. More recently, he was appointed director-general of the Crown Property Bureau on Sunday. The multibillion-dollar royal property management organisation manages the assets of the king, including stakes in SC...