Cement News tagged: Corporate
Al-Jouf Cement returns to quarterly profit
Al Jouf Cement has posted a 16.4 per cent rise in second-quarter net profit following five consecutive quarterly declines. A gradual improvement in shipments for the three-month period is also leading the Saudi-based company to anticipate a full recovery by year-end. During the second quarter of the year, the company posted a net profit of SAR16.1m. The results were slightly above analyst c...
SCCC second-quarter net profit down, Thailand
Siam City Cement Co (SCCC), Thailand's second-largest cement producer, posted a nine per cent YoY decline in 2Q14 net profit to THB1.47bn (US$46m) due to foreign exchange losses and declining equities revenue from associated companies. Net sales were ahead by 4.4 per cent YoY to THB7.8bn but fell 10 per cent QoQ on seasonal effects. First-half net profit increased by 19.2 per cent to THB3.38...
Vecoplan names Eschenhorst VP of cement unit
Uwe Eschenhorst has been named VP – Cement Business Unit at Vecoplan LLC. Eschenhorst joined Vecoplan in 2012 as vice president of its Alternative Fuels and Energy Competency Center. Prior to that he was environmental services manager at Polysius Corp USA, working with the cement and minerals industries. While at Polysius, he directed the design, engineering, construction, and implementatio...
Loesche delivers slag mill to Taigang Group
Loesche has delivered the world’s largest slag mill to Taigang Group International Trade Co, Ltd, German equipment specialists have said in a statement. Loesche received the order for a vertical mill type LM 63.3+3 for grinding granulated blastfurnace slag in September 2011. The plant went into operation at the steelworks of TISCO, Shanxi Taigang Stainless Steel Co. Ltd in Taiyuan in March 2...
RAK Cement swings to first-half net profit, UAE
Preliminary first-half results for Ras Al Khaimah Cement (RAK Cement) show that the UAE-based producer achieved a net profit of AED3.2m (US$871,198) compared to a loss of AED1.6m in the equivalent period of last year. In a statement to the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange revealed that revenues from local sales amounted to AED37.5m (US$10.2m) against AED38m in 2013, down 1.05 per cent YoY. Expo...
Oman: OCC profit rises despite drop in sales
Oman Cement Co (OCC) posted a 4.3 per cent rise in net profit before tax for the first six months of this year, despite a drop in sales. The sultanate’s second-largest cement producer by capacity reported a pretax profit of OMR9.9m (US$25.7m) during the period compared to OMR9.5m in 1H13. Sales in the first half of 2014 stood at OMR3.7m, down 5.9 per cent on the OMR27.3m seen in the compara...
China Tianrui Group expects 15% rise in 1H14 net profit
China Tianrui Group Cement said it expects to record an increase of about 15 per cent in consolidated net profit for the six months to the end of June 2014 compared to the same period of 2013. The growth was mainly attributable to the substantial increase in sales volume compared to the same period of last year.
Umm Al-Qura signs financing agreement, Saudi Arabia
Umm Al-Qura Cement Company announced the signing of an Islamic financing agreement with The Saudi British Bank (SABB) on 22 July for SAR 618.874m. The financing has a tenor of three years and is for specific project financing needs.
Cemex EBITDA margin under pressure
Cemex' first-half turnover improved by 5.7 per cent to US$7736.5m and the EBITDA edged ahead by 1.5 per cent to US$1269.7m, while the trading profit improved by 4.5 per cent to US$721.5m. Net interest payments rose by 15.1 per cent to US$841.4m and, after other charges, there was a pre-tax profit of US$49.2m compared with a US$118.9m loss. At the net attributable level, the loss fell by 4...
UltraTech full-year hit by operational costs
UltraTech Cement, an Aditya Birla Group company, today announced its financial results for the year ended 31 March 2014. Full-year net sales stood at INR58.32bn compared to INR53.91bn in the corresponding period of the previous year. Profit before interest, depreciation and tax was INR13.29bn compared to INR13.83bn. Profit after tax was INR8.38bn against INR7.26bn in FY13. Combined cement ...
Lafarge Holcim antitrust reviews ‘on-track’
Holcim and Lafarge are in "advanced" discussions with European antitrust regulators over their proposed merger, Bernard Fontana, chief executive of Holcim, told the Wall Street Journal. Earlier this month, the companies identified shared assets, including 23 plants in eight countries amounting to a total of 27.5Mta, that will be sold to allow the merger to go ahead. Mr Fontana told the news...
Arabian Cement second-quarter exceeds analysts’ forecasts
Saudi-based Arabian Cement reported a 60.2 per cent rise in second-quarter net profit to SAR199.8m (US$53.3m), beating analysts' forecasts. Al-Rajhi Capital noted that while most cement companies reported weak sales volumes this quarter, Arabian Cement bucked the trend and reported strong sales dispatches (+44 per cent YoY) as the company was relatively unaffected by the broader sector issue...
Colombia boosts Cemex Latin American Holdings
First-half turnover at Cemex Latin American Holdings improved by 6.1 per cent to US$864m while EBITDA declined by 7.5 per cent to US$283.1m. At the trading level there was a 9.5 per cent reduction to US$235.6m. After a net interest charge 19 per cent lower at US$47.6m, the pretax profit emerged 4.8 per cent lower at US$184.2m. The net attributable profit declined by 14.3 per cent to US$121....
ARM Cement first-half pretax profit 20% higher YoY
ARM Cement's pretax profit rose 20 per cent to KES1.2bn (US$13.68m) in the first half of 2014, the Kenyan firm said on Friday. Total revenue increased by 16 per cent YoY to KES7.6bn with cement sales up by 10 per cent in Kenya and by more than a third in Tanzania. "The east African regional economies are growing briskly, and demand for cement, as well as the other products are expected ...
Turkey: Cimsa acquires local cement producer
Sabanci group company Cimsa has acquired fellow Turkish producer Sancim Bilecik Cimento in a deal reportedly worth US$220.7m. The company signed the contract allowing it to purchase 100 per cent of Sançim Bilecik’s shares, according to a statement released by the Public Disclosure Platform (KAP) The transfer price of the shares, a nominal value of TRY87.5m has been set as US$220.7m, the stat...
Vicat to take full control of Indian joint venture
Vicat is to take 100 per cent control of Vicat Sagar Cements after agreeing to buy out Sagar Cements from the joint venture company. An agreement has been reached whereby Sagar Cements will sell its entire 47 per cent stake in the collaboration for INR66.68 per share (US$1.1). The company said it would use a part of the money to purchase some capital equipment for its Matampally plant, whil...