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Pakistan cement market progress

15 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Latest statistics on the Pakistan cement sector show that the country will have ended the first quarter of FY12-13 (July-September 2012) ahead of the same period as last year as September sales gather pace on the back of increased real estate activity and higher government infrastructure spending. Improving prices and government incentives are likely to further spur industry profitability but declining exports remain a concern.   Preliminary estimates for September 2012 dispatches show tota...

Indonesian September sales rise 34.4 per cent YoY

12 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Indonesian cement sales in September surged to a record high in September after dipping a month ago due to fewer working days during the Muslim festivities, data from the country's largest cement producer PT Semen Gresik Tbk showed on Friday.     September sales soared 34.4 percent from a year ago to 5.2Mt boosted by increasing monthly sales in main islands of Java and Sumatra, the data said. While sales in the island of Moluccas and Papua fell 21.7 percent on a monthly basis.     "We...

Ecuador sales rise 4.3 per cent, Jan-Sept

11 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Sales by domestic cement producers in Ecuador reached 4.36Mt between January-September 2012, up 4.3 per cent YoY compared to the same period of last year (4.18Mt). Data from the Instituto Ecuatoriano del Cement Y Hormigon shows that sales for September 2012 reached 519,919t representing a 4.1 per cent rise compared to September 2011 figures which stood at 499,369t.

US shipments rise 14% YoY, Jan-July 2012

10 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Total shipments of Portland and blended cement in the United States and Puerto Rico for the year through July were 44.4Mt, up by about 14%, data from the US Geological Survey (USGS) showed. The leading producing states in July were Texas, California, Missouri, Michigan, and Florida, in descending order and accounted for about 43 per cent of total output. The leading consuming States (Texas, California, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois, in descending order) received about 35 per cent of the Jul...

Latin American cement demand rises in 2Q2012

09 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Cement consumption in the second quarter in major Latin American economies closely reflected the current economic cycle and countries such as Peru, Bolivia and Chile stood out for their dynamism against a background of overall economic growth, according to the latest Infrastructure, Water & Waste Stats report by BNamericas. Peru noted a 18.3 per cent YoY rise to 2.235Mt in cement demand. For 2012, the country is expected to grow by 5.9 per cent, making it the fastest-growing economy in the ...

Deliveries to Lebanon decline during Jan-July 2012

08 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Cement deliveries to Lebanon declined by 5.32 per cent YoY to 3,075,466t during the first seven months of 2012, from 3,248,415t a year earlier. On a monthly basis, deliveries eased by 4.55 per cent to 488,690t in July compared with 511,973t in June. The average monthly growth rate in cement deliveries reached 4.32 per cent during the first seven months of 2012 compared with a higher 7.21 per cent growth in the same period in 2011. The compounded annual growth rate in cement deliveri...

Holcim: September '12

08 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Ambuja Cements increased production for the first nine months of the year by 6.1 per cent to 16.38Mt, while deliveries were ahead by 6.2 per cent to 16.77Mt. For the month of September, Ambuja Cements increased shipments by 4.9 per cent to 1.55Mt, while the monthly production rose by 6.6 per cent to 1.56Mt compared with a 1.6 per cent decline the previous September. Sister company ACC Ltd increased cement deliveries for the nine months by 2.4 per cent to 18.22Mt, while production was r...

Lafarge: September '12

08 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Lafarge has agreed the sale of two integrated cement works, two quarries, eight batching plants, a fly ash business and certain other downstream assets to Eagle Materials for US$446m. The two cement plants involved are those at Sugar Creek, Kansas City, in Missouri, and at Tulsa in Oklahoma. They have a combined cement capacity 1.6Mta and leaves Lafarge with nine cement plants in the United States.  Lafarge Malayan Cement increased its first half turnover by 5.4 per cent to MYR1,338.2m (€...

Cemex sees 9% increase in 3Q12 operating EBITDA

05 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Cemex said on Thursday it expects to report a nine per cent rise in operating cash flow in the third quarter of 2012, compared with the year-earlier period, although sales in dollar terms are expected to be down about two per cent. This is Cemex’s first results guidance in more than three years. The Mexican cement major said that adjusted for currency swings, sales in the third quarter were probably up three per cent from a year earlier, and EBITDA was likely 13 per cent higher. The res...

Adelaide Brighton full year earnings on track, Australia

04 October 2012, Published under Cement News

Adelaide Brighton has confirmed it is on track to meet its 2011-12 earnings guidance, underpinned by its exposure to the resource and infrastructure sectors. Speaking to the Australian Financial Review, Adelaide Brighton managing director Mark Chellew said the group’s 2012 financial year net profit guidance was between A145m-155m. Although the group has been hit by a slowdown in the residential sector, it has reviewed its resources-based cement exposure and was not expecting any fall in ce...