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South Korea: Hyundai Cement auction set to raise KRW600bn

09 December 2016, Published under Cement News

The auction of Hyundai Cement, preliminary bidding of which is scheduled for 16 December, is set to attract bids from multiple prospective buyers, with the assets expected to fetch up to KRW600bn (US$515m), reports Korea’s Pulse. Hyundai Cement currently supplies seven per cent of the domestic market, and the company’s location in the country’s interior makes it particularly attractive to Korea’s coastal cement producers, Ssangyong Cement Industrial Co, Tongyang Cement & Energy Co, and La...

CRH reportedly to take part in preliminary bidding for South Korean producer

11 June 2015, Published under Cement News

CRH announced it will take part in the preliminary bidding for Tongyang Cement scheduled on the 12 June after selecting Goldman Sachs as an underwriter, according to local press reports citing investment bank sources. Tongyang Cement was put on the market in early April after its parent group was liquidated. The 74.1-per cent stake held by Tongyang Corp. and Tongyang International is estimated at KWR400-600bn (US$360-540m) Tongyang Cement is ranked second on the domestic the cement market...

Concerns raised by South Korean imports of Japanese coal

23 October 2014, Published under Cement News

Lee In-young, an opposition spokesman for the New Politics Alliance for Democracy party and member of the National Assembly's Environment Labour Committee, has raised concerns over radioactive-contaminated coal bought by South Korean cement firms.   The  Environment Ministry received data that between 2011 to 2013 Sangyong Cement Industrial, Tongyang Cement and Energy, Lafarge Halla Cement and Hanil Cement received waste coal from the Japanese government, which was used in the production ...

Tongyang Cement goes into court receivership

03 October 2013, Published under Cement News

Tongyang Cement has become the fifth victim of the group-wide financial agony. On 1 October the cement unit of Tongyang Group said in a regulatory filing that it applied for court receivership with the Chuncheon (Gangwon Province) District Court. Earlier on the same day, another group company specialising in IT services, Tongyang Networks, had asked for court receivership. As a result, following similar steps by Tongyang Corporation, Tongyang Leisure and Tongyang International, the total n...