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USA: Elementia intends to buy 55% of Giant Cement14 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsElementia of Mexico, 49 per cent owned by billionaire Carlos Slim, said it had signed a letter of intent to purchase 55 per cent of Giant Cement Holdings Inc, a wholly-owned unit of Cementos Portland Valderrivas of Spain. Currently, Giant has an accumulated debt of approximately EUR437m in a securitised bond issue, says dirigentesdigital. At the same time, Cementos Portland has signed a loan of EUR553m to repay part of its debt, amounting to EUR1114m according to the Spanish source. Ceme... |
Qatar National Cement Company profits flat for 9M201613 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe Qatar National Cement Company (QNCC) has released its earning statement for the first nine months of 2016, showing that revenues and profits have changed little from the corresponding period in 2015. Profits at QNCC were down one per cent to QAR355m (US$97.6m), while revenues also fell slightly, being down 0.9 per cent to QAR839m. Taken together with previous three-monthly earnings statements, QNCC’s revenues have now fallen for two straight quarters, declining by 3.0 per cent in Q... |
Semen Indonesia to continue Rembang construction12 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsDespite the decision of Indonesia’s Supreme Court to cancel an environmental permit for Semen Indonesia's Rembang plant, the cement producer will continue the construction of the works. Semen Indonesia's Corporate Secretary, Agung Wiharto, said: "As a publicly-listed state owned company, the management will comply with the legally-binding court decision ...(but,) until we receive the official copy of the ruling, we'll continue construction.” The project represents an investment of ID... |
EC to investigate HeidelbergCement-Schwenk acquisition of Cemex Croatia11 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe plans of HeidelbergCement and Schwenk to acquire Cemex's Croatian subsidiary will be subject to review by the European Commission (EC). The transaction would result in the merger of Cemex Croatia, the largest domestic cement producer, with Duna Drava Cement, the largest importer and a subsidiary of the two German cement producers. After a preliminary analysis, the EC concluded that "the proposed transaction would remove a significant competitor in an already concentrated regional ... |
Oman Cement profit surges 39%11 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsOman Cement Co announced that it has achieved a 38.78 per cent growth in net profit, reaching OMR9.68m (US$25.14m) for 9M16, compared to OMR6.98m for the same period a year earlier. Revenue also grew by 12.45 per cent to OMR43.75m for the period, up from OMR38.9m the previous year. Total expenses increased 5.93 per cent from OMR31.02m to OMR32.86m and sales income grew 12.18 per cent to OMR42.3m in the period under review when compared to OMR37.71 per cent in the year prior. The financ... |
LafargeHolcim exits Chile as it sells Cemento Polpaico10 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsLafargeHolcim will sell its majority stake in Chile's Cemento Polpaico to investment firm Inversiones Caburga Ltda, whose interests include the Chilean ready-mix market through Cementos Bicentenario. Caburga, owned by the Hurtado Vicuna Group, agreed to buy the 54.3 per cent stake, which represents around CHF220m (US$225m), via a public tender offer, according to LafargeHolcim. Cemento Polpaico operates one integrated cement works and two grinding units with a total cement capacity o... |
Vietnam: 9M16 cement sales reach 55.25Mt05 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsAccording to the Ministry of Construction, Vietnam's cement sales reached 55.25Mt for the period January-September 2016. No YoY comparative figures were given. Of the total, 43.55Mt were sold domestically, a 7.7 per cent increase on the previous year, and 11.7Mt of cement and clinker were exported, representing a -1.3 per cent YoY change. In the month of September Vietnamese companies sold 5.25Mt of cement in the domestic market and exported 1.3Mt of cement and clinker, the ministry added... |
Georgia: new cement plant in partnership with LafargeHolcim04 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsGeorgian Cement Company (GCC) opened its new cement plant on the 4 October 2016 in Poti, with an initial annual capacity of 0.25Mta. GCC decided on the location of the plant after market research revealed that western Georgia was mainly supplied by cement imported from Turkey. To complete the project GCC entered a partnership with Lafarge, which has since merged with Holcim to become LafargeHolcim. Construction of the plant commenced in 2014. The new plant boasts a unique laboratory based... |
Mexico: Cemex announces intention to sell its stake in GCC03 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsCemex SAB de CV said on Friday that it is looking to sell the 23 per cent stake it directly owns in Mexican cement producer Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua SAB de CV through a secondary public offering. In its filing, Cemex disclosed that it had asked CNBV, Mexico's banking and securities regulator, to approve the planned transaction, under which the Mexican building materials company will offer the shares to domestic and foreign investors in a concurrent private placement. The sale would be... |
HeidelbergCement achieves high acceptance rate for Italcementi share offer03 October 2016, Published under Cement NewsHeidelbergCement achieved a high acceptance rate in the mandatory tender offer to the remaining shareholders of Italcementi. According to provisional results, 165,371,229 Italcementi shares were tendered at the end of the subscription period, on 30 September 2016. In addition, HeidelbergCement purchased 14,000,000 Italcementi shares outside the offer on the stock exchange. Together with the 45 per cent stake already acquired from Italmobiliare on 1 July 2016, the tendered and acquired shar... |