13 June 2016
Indonesia: Semen Indonesia is planning to spend up to US$100m in 2016 to buy foreign cement companies outside of Indonesia to grow its revenue, a company official has told Reuters. Agung Wiharto, the company's corporate secretary, attributed the move to local competition. He didn’t mention which countries the cement producer is considering. Semen Indonesia’s revenue fell slightly year-on-year to US$2.01bn in 2015.
Egypt: Chengdu Design & Research Institute of Building Materials Industry, a subsidiary of Sinoma, has been awarded a Euro1.05bn order to build six 6000t/day cement plants from the Equipment Bureau of the Ministry of Defence. The scope of the turkey contract includes construction of six new integrated cement production lines, operation and maintenance of two 5775t/day cement production lines of Phase II of GOE ARISH and the six Beni Suef cement production lines under the contract for three years. The order represents around 15% of Sinoma’s turnover in 2015.