China: Anhui Conch expects that its profit will double year-on-year for the first half of 2018. The company reported an unaudited net profit of US$1.01bn in the first half of 2017. It has attributed the growth in profit to a ‘significant’ increase in the price of its products and an increase in revenue. The cement producer plans to release its half year report by the end of August 2018.
