Cement News tagged: Corporate
Pakistan: Bestway Cement to acquire Dewan Cement
Dewan Cement Ltd and Bestway Cement Ltd have both separately informed the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) that they are signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU), wherein Bestway will acquire Dewan Cement, subject to approval by concerned authorities. Previously, three local cement companies and a Chinese company expressed their intention to acquire stakes in Dewan Cement. The Bestway C...
Peru: Cementos Yura Q4 profit falls by 20%
Cementos Yura has announced that its profits for4Q16 were down by 20.1 per cent YoY to PEN40.2m (US$12.4m), reports Business News Americas. The firm saw sales revenues fall by 3.3 per cent, while administrative costs more than doubled as the firm paid a PEN25.7m penalty for cancelling a contract with a supplier. Cementos Yura was also negatively affected by foreign exchange fluctuations. ...
Lucky Cement: Karachi expansion scheduled for end-2017
Lucky Cement Ltd is currently undergoing a series of investments in capex projects. Its 1.25Mta Karachi plant expansion poject is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2017, while the company is still in the process of seeking approvals and necessary authorisations for a 2.3Mta greenfield integrated cement plant in Punjab province. Company officials hope that construction at the Punjab si...
Oman Cement annual profit up 10% as production rises
Oman Cement has announced that its profits rose by 10 per cent in 2016, to OMR12.87m (US$33.4m). In an earnings statement to the Muscat Securities Market, Oman Cement said that sales revenues rose by 8.5 per cent, but better control of costs produced a greater rise in profitability. The company sold 2.3Mt of cement in 2016, a 10.7 per cent increase on the previous year, which given the s...
UK: Hanson reopens GGBS grinding plant
Hanson has re-opened its ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) grinding plant at Teesport Docks in Middlesbrough, UK, creating 20 new jobs. The plant was mothballed during the recession in 2009, but the upturn in construction activity prompted Hanson to reopen the site. The raw material was originally sourced from the nearby steel works, which has now closed. In future it will be import...
India: Ambuja net profit leaps 85% in 4Q16
LafargeHolcim-owned Ambuja Cement reported a 85.2 per cent rise in its consolidated net profit to INR2.057bn (US$30.7m) for the fourth quarter ended 30 December 2016 from INR1.11bn in 4Q15. Ambuja’s total income from operation almost doubled to INR49.362bn in the Oct-Dec quarter from INR23.843bn in the year-ago period, Ambuja said in a BSE filing. "During the year, Holcim India Pvt Ltd ...
Pakistan: Gharibwal Cement's energy-generating conveyor is operational
Gharibwal Cement Ltd informed Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) that its downhill conveyor belt project has now started commercial operations. The 3.15km-long conveyor belt can transport 1200tph raw material (crushed limestone, clay, silica, etc) from quarry to the pre-blending yard. said Company Secretary, Muhammad Shamail Javed. It is claimed that this conveyor belt is first of its kind i...
Indonesia: Kupang Cement to start work on new Kupang plant
Kupang Cement Indonesia's third factory in Kupang will soon be realised, according to the Governor of East Nusa Tenggara, Frans Lebu Raya. "The preparation phase has been completed. The groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled to be held on 10 March this year," he informed ANTARA in Kupang, Monday. He further stated that the new IDR2trn (US$1.49bn) plant will have a 1.5Mta cement capacity an...
India: Burnpur Cement to launch new PPC product
Burnpur Cement Ltd has informed BSE that the management has decided to launch new Pozzolan Portland Cement (PPC) from its Patratu plant by the third week of April 2017. After the production of PPC, the capacity utilisation of the plant will be running at 100 per cent and the turnover of the company is forecast to increase.
Paraguay: INC's Vallemi dryer online in March
Paraguay’s Industria Nacional de Cemento (INC) expects to commission the new pozzolana dryer at its Vallemi plant next month. In addition, work on the plant’s fuel conversion is also progressing well, having been completed 80 per cent, according to INC CEO, Jorge Méndez. The investment into the plant will enable it increase production, improve product quality and lower cement prices i...
Kuwait: Gulf Cement Co to produce oil well cement
Gulf Cement Co was granted a permit for the production of oil well cement from the American Petroleum Institute. Gulf Cement reported a 27.1 per cent fall in profits to KWD4.141m (US$13.56m) in FY16 from KWD5.683m in the previous fiscal year.
South Korea: preferred bidders named in US$567m Hyundai deal
Hanil Cement Company and LK Investment Partners have been named as the preferred bidders to acquire Hyundai Cement, reports South Korea's Pulse. The two firms submitted a bid of KRW650bn (US$567m) for an 84.56 per cent stake in Hyundai. The acquisition would make Hanil Cement the largest producer in South Korea, with a market share of more than 30 per cent. The bid values Hyundai at near...
UAE: Arkan’s profits fall by 25% in 2016
Arkan Building Materials has seen its annual profits fall by a quarter to AED75.7m (US$20.6m), according to reports in Construction Week Online. The company, which is the UAE’s single largest cement producer by installed capacity, blamed damage related to heavy rains in March 2016 as the cause of its fall in revenues. Better control of costs saw the firm’s gross profit margins increase t...
Saudi Arabia: Southern Province reports 48% fall in 4Q profits
Southern Province Cement reported a decline of 48 per cent in its profits for the fourth quarter of 2016. Profits in 4Q16 fell to SAR156m (US$41.6m) from SAR300m in 4Q15. Southern Province Cement is part of a trend that sees Saudi cement producers report a considerable drop in sales due to a signficant reduction in construction activity in 2016. Infrastructure spending in Saudi Arabia has ...
Kazakhstan: Rudny cement plant online in 2017
Rudny Cement Factory LLP is scheduled for commissioning in Rudny, Kostanai region, later this year, according to the town’s mayor, Bakytzhan Gayazov. The 0.5Mta plant represents an investment of KZT14.8bn (US$46.4m). The construction of the plant had been put on hold and resumed multiple times since 2010 due to lack of financing.
Saudi Arabia: Najran Cement receives export licence
Najran Cement obtained an export licence from the Saudi Ministry of Commerce and Investment. The licence was received on 15 February 2017 and is valid for one year, according to the company’s statement to the Tadawul, the Saudi stock exchange.