Matsiloje Portland Cement could reopen by year end
Matsiloje Portland Cement (MPC), one of only two homegrown cement producers in Botswana, is considering a return to production by the end of the year following its closure in 20...
South Africa
390 posts · Page 13 of 39
AfriSam wins Roadstab cement road stabilisation order
AfriSam's specialised Roadstab cement is creating a safer and wider R67/5 road between Queenstown and Whittlesea in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The Raubex Construction and R...
Scaling up for growth Premium
Cement producers do not just manufacture cement, they need to sell it too. So what happens when a new equity partner invests in the company with a plan to increase factory outpu...
Financial restructuring positions PCC for long-term recovery
Competent management is transforming PPC's prospects for the better. Under CEO Roland van Wijnen, the company has deconsolidated the company's Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...
PPC reports 3% increase in revenue
South Africa’s PPC has reported a three per cent YoY increase in group revenue for the year ended 31 March 2021, rising to ZAR8938m (US$626.07m) from ZAR8671m, due to a recovery...
PPC to sell Botswana aggregate quarry business
South Africa-based PPC has entered into a binding sale and purchase agreement to sell its 100 per cent shareholding in PPC Aggregate Quarries Botswana Proprietary Ltd for a cash...
Cement sales stabilise in South Africa in the 3Q20
Sales of cementitious products in South Africa edged up 0.3 per cent in the third quarter of 2020 to 3,457,438t when compared with 3,447,822t in the 3Q19, according to Levitt Ki...
Sephaku Cement CEO passes
The death of Peter Fourie, Sephaku Cement (Dangote Cement South Africa) CEO, was announced on Wednesday. Mr Fourie had suffered a stroke a week earlier and had been admitted to ...
PPC sells lime operations to Kgatelopele Lime
South Africa’s PPC has announced the sale of its lime operations to Kgatelopele Lime for ZAR515m (US$35.5m). The net proceeds from the divestment are part of PPC’s capital restr...
PPC postpones its ZAR750m rights issue
PPC Ltd, South Africa's biggest cement maker, held off on a planned rights issue of about ZAR750m (US$640m) following a sales boost and advancing talks on the disposal of its li...