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Confidence Cement’s net profit rises 25% in 1HFY23-24

16 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Confidence Cement PLC , Bangladesh’s leading cement manufacturer, recently announced its financial results on the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSX). The company reported a profit after tax of BDT434.1m (US$3.96m) between July and December 2023 (six months) against a profit of BDT346.3m earned during the same period last year. This translates into a growth of 25.34 per cent in profit due to a fall in the cost of sales, less foreign currency exchange loss and deferred tax options. The company sal...

Kohat Cement Co profits grow by 24% in 1HFY23-24

15 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Kohat Cement Co Ltd announced its financial result for 1HFY23-24 on the Pakistan Stock Exchange website on 14 February, posting a profit after tax (PAT) of PKR4.453bn (US$15.9m) compared to a PAT of PKR3.578bn in the same period last year (SPLY). This translates into a growth of 24 per cent YoY. On the other hand, the profitability in 2QFY23-24 advanced by 14 per cent YoY to PKR2.224bn compared to SPLY. According to AHL Research, the topline during 1HFY23-24 clocked in at PKR21.462bn, s...

Kohat Cement Co to post strong results

12 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Kohat Cement Co Ltd is scheduled to announce its financial result for 1HFY23-24 (July-December 2023) on 14 February whereby AHL Research  anticipate the company will post a profit after tax of PKR4.313bn (US$15.57m) as compared PKR3.578bn, up by 21 per cent YoY. Likewise, in 2QFY23-24 (October-December 2023) earnings are expected to climb by seven per cent YoY, arriving at PKR2.084bn. The top line in 2QFY23-24 is expected to decline by nine per cent YoY to settle at PKR10.017bn...

Attock Cement Pakistan’s profitability jumps 264% in 1HFY24

08 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Attock Cement Pakistan Ltd posted its financial result for 1HFY23-24 on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) website on 6 February, wherein it declared a profit after tax (PAT) of PKR2.04bn (US$730.1m) compared to a PAT of PKR560m in the same period last year, a growth of 264 per cent YoY. The company's profitability in 2QFY23-24 advanced by 12 per cent YoY to PKR497m compared to the year-ago period. Alongside the result, ACPL announced an interim cash dividend of PKR2.50/share in 2QFY23-2...

Cement dispatches exhibit mixed trend during January 2024

07 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Pakistan's total cement dispatches declined by 14.8 per cent in January 2024 to 3.414Mt against 4.006Mt in January 2023. Out of this total, local cement deliveries decreased by 17.3 per cent to 2.967Mt compared to 3.588Mt in January 2023. However, exports increased by 6.8 per cent as the volumes increased from 418,067t in January 2023 to 446,595t in January 2024. A spokesman of the All Pakistan Cement Manufacturers Association (APCMA) informed the government about the serious implications...

Bangladesh cement export turns in double-digit 7MFY23-24

07 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Bangladesh has recorded a 59 per cent YoY expansion in cement export revenue to US$10.51m in the first seven months (July-January 2024) of FY23-24 from US$6.61m in the same seven months of the previous year, according to the Bangladesh Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). This figure includes minor amounts of salt, stone and related products. The 21.1 per cent YoY rise in cement exports also surpassed the target of US$8.68m for 7MFY23-24. Bangladesh had set a higher target export revenue of US$...

Kohat Cement Company completes BMR

05 February 2024, Published under Cement News

Kohat Cement Company Ltd (KCCL) informed the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) on 1 February that the Balancing, Modernisation and Replacement (BMR) (pyro-process optimisation) of the existing 6700tpd grey cement production line located at Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), has successfully been completed. It will help the company to bring operational and cost efficiencies to the plant. A last quarter report adds that the company commissioned a 10MW solar power project at its Kohat site in Augu...

Fauji Cement Co expected to post mixed financial results

05 February 2024, Published under Cement News

According to AHL Research, Fauji Cement Co Ltd (FCCL) is scheduled to announce its financial result for 2QFY23-24 (October-December 2023) soon with an expected profit after tax of PKR2.347bn (US$8.39m) as compared to PKR2.764bn a year ago. This represents a fall of 15 per cent YoY. This will take the earnings for 1HFY23-24 (July-December 2023) to settle at PKR4.961bn compared to PKR5.079bn in 1HFY22-23. Despite a seven per cent YoY decline in total dispatches in 2QFY23-24, the top line is...

Pakistan extends T&T implementation deadline

02 February 2024, Published under Cement News

The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has launched the Track and Trace System (TTS) that was to be rolled out across the cement, sugar, fertiliser, beverages, tobacco, POL products and steel sectors from 1 July 2021 in Pakistan to enhance tax revenue, reduce counterfeiting and preventing the smuggling of illicit goods through the implementation of a robust, and has extended the deadline for cement manufacturers to fully implement the TTS to 30 April 2024. According to a local report, the last ...

UltraTech Cement commissions Rajpura plant

31 January 2024, Published under Cement News

UltraTech Cement ( Aditya Birla Group ) has announced the commissioning of a 2.6Mta greenfield grinding plant at Rajpura , Punjab, India. This project forms part of the 22.6Mta capacity expansion announced in June 2022. The additional capacity will help UltraTech service the markets in Punjab. With the plant’s commissioning, the company’s total grey cement manufacturing capacity in India now stands at 135.59Mta.