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Summit Materials makes US$3.8bn counter bid for Ash Grove Cement

06 October 2017

US: Summit Materials has offered US$3.8bn to buy Ash Grove Cement, according to Reuters. The board of Ash Grove Cement has described the proposal as ‘superior’ to the US$3.5bn bid made by Ireland’s CRH in September 2017. It has extended its so-called ‘shop window’ consideration period with CRH to 20 October 2017.

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US law firm examines proposed Ash Grove Cement sale to CRH

03 October 2017

US: WeissLaw is investigating the proposed sale of Ash Grove Cement to Ireland’s CRH on the grounds of whether the board acted to maximise shareholder value prior to the deal. Citing an article by financial markets research company Seeking Alpha the law firm says it is exploring whether rising demand for cement due to expected government infrastructure spending, the company’s high market share in certain regions and its recent growth in operating earnings were fully taken into account when valuing the company. CRH and Ash Grove Cement announced the US$3.5bn deal in late September 2017.

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CRH linked to purchase of Suwannee American Cement

02 October 2017

US: Ireland’s CRH is close to agreeing a purchase of Suwannee American Cement from Votorantim Cimentos and Anderson Columbia. The deal is valued at US$750m, according to sources quoted by Bloomberg. However, this is an extremely high value for a single cement plant sale in the US. Suwannee American Cement operates a 1Mt/yr plant at Branford in Florida.

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CRH enlarges its North American cement presence

27 September 2017

The last week marked a step change to the US industry with the news that Ireland’s CRH has agreed to buy Ash Grove Cement. The latter is the largest remaining cement producer still owned by an American company. Its history dates back 135 years to its founding in 1882, with links to the Sunderland family for over a century. Following the acquisition, each of the top five cement producing firms in the US will be operated by multinational corporations based in foreign countries.

Although this scenario is not new to many other countries around the world, it is rare for a nation with a cement industry of this scale. The US is the third biggest cement producer worldwide. Out of the top ten cement producing nations Global Cement Magazine identified in its Top 100 Report 2017 feature [LINK] in December 2016 only Egypt doesn’t have a local company to match the multinationals. China has China National Building Material (CNBM), for example and India has UltraTech cement and so on and so forth.

The actual sale covers Ash Grove Cement’s eight cement plants and 23 cement terminals, as well as its ready mix concrete and aggregate businesses, for US$3.5bn. Altogether its cement plants have a production capacity of 9.5Mt/yr and this really puts into contrast the Cementir Italia deal last week. HeidelbergCement has agreed to buy that company for around Euro57/t. CRH is buying Ash Grove Cement for US$368/t. That’s more that five times as much!

To be fair they are very different markets, with Italy’s cement sector consolidating near the bottom of a business cycle and the US growing with some promise. For comparison with other recent US acquisitions, CRH is offering to pay about the same as Summit Materials did to Lafarge for a cement plant and seven terminals in mid-2015. Other than that a few of the more recent transactions have been between US$200 – 300/t. The gradual price inflation for cement production capacity indicates that there is confidence in the US cement market.

In terms of CRH’s enhanced presence in North America following the completion of the deal, it currently operates two cement plants in the US: the American Cement Sumterville plant in Florida, a joint venture with Elementia, and the Trident plant in Montana. The CRH US division also runs five terminals in the Midwest and Northeast. This compliments Ash Grove Cement’s presence in the West, Midwest and South. Throw in CRH’s Canadian cement plants in Ontario and Quebec and CRH has the makings of a seriously strong cement business in North America. The only obvious impediment could be the close proximity of the CRH Trident plant and the Ash Grove Cement Montana City plant. Both are in Montana within 115km of each other and they are the only integrated plants in the state. A Federal Trade Commission arranged divestment in this location seems likely.

Ash Grove Cement’s chairman Charlie Sunderland, described CRH as his company’s biggest customer when the acquisition was announced. Buying Ash Grove Cement fills in one more piece in CRH’s construction materials puzzle in North America. Its American divisions have generated more than half of its revenue since at least 2014 dominating asphalt, aggregate and ready mix concrete markets. Yet it has lacked a cement market presence to match this. This changes when the deal with Ash Grove Cement completes.

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CRH buys Ash Grove Cement for US$3.5bn

21 September 2017

US: Ireland’s CRH has agreed to buy Ash Grove Cement for US$3.5bn. The American cement producer operates eight cement plants across eight US states, combined with ready mix concrete, aggregates and associated logistics assets across the US midwest. Once shareholder and regulatory approval is obtained the deal is expected to complete by the end of 2017.

"Ash Grove is an excellent addition to CRH's portfolio of businesses across North America as we seek to deploy our capital into high quality businesses that enhance our global asset base and provide opportunities to create shareholder value. We welcome the Ash Grove team to CRH and look forward to further developing our longstanding relationship as part of one company," said Albert Manifold, chief executive of CRH.

Before the purchase agreement Ash Grove Cement was the largest domestically-owned cement producer in the US. The company has operated for 135 years and over a century of this time it has been run by the Sunderland family.

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McInnis releases distribution plan for Atlantic provinces of Canada

08 September 2017

Canada: McInnis, formerly McInnis Cement, has released details about its distribution plan for the Atlantic provinces. The company has acquired two CRH Canada-owned terminals allowing it to access markets in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. McInnis says it will honour the orders of the clients supplied through those terminals and integrate their current employees. In addition, McInnis has entered into an agreement with CRH Canada and will supply cement for its terminals at Long Pond, Argentia and Corner Brook in Newfoundland directly from McInnis plant in Port-Daniel – Gascons. Deliveries to Newfoundland will begin in the autumn of 2017.

“With the addition of these terminals to our network, we are now able to secure a solid position in this market” said Hervé Mallet, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of McInnis Cement.

The McInnis distribution network includes several facilities: marine terminals in Providence, Rhode Island and Sainte-Catherine, Québec were the first to be built and commissioned. The Oshawa terminal in Ontario has started operation in September 2017. A railway transshipment station in New Richmond, Québec is also operational, and the Bronx marine terminal in New York will join the network in 2018.

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West Bank case against CRH dismissed by court

07 September 2017

Israel: A US$34bn lawsuit by Palestinian activists against a group of businesses including CRH has been dismissed by a court in Washington DC. The activists had tried to sue various groups with connections to Israel for allegedly ‘profiteering’ from the building of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, according to the Irish Independent newspaper. CRH was targeted due to its former co-ownership of Nesher, which produced cement used by the Israeli government in the West Bank. Before it sold its 25% stake in the Israeli cement producer in late 2015 CRH had received protests at its annual general meeting.

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CRH’s European Heavyside division stagnates so far in 2017

24 August 2017

Ireland: CRH’s sales revenue from its Europe Heavyside division, which includes cement production, fell by 2% year-on-year to Euro3.35bn in the first half of 2017 from Euro3.41bn in the same period of 2016. The group described the situation in Europe as ‘stabilising,’ with market recovery reported in Ireland, France, Finland and Poland. However, its earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) remained static at Euro352m. Overall the group’s sales rose by 2% to Euro13bn and its EBITDA rose by 5% to Euro1.18bn.

"We have had a satisfactory start to 2017 with stabilising trends in key European markets and EBITDA growth in the Americas,” said chief executive Albert Manifold. “For the second half of the year, despite currency headwinds and continuing challenging conditions in the Philippines, we expect a continuation of the first half momentum experienced in Europe and EBITDA growth in the Americas, which will result in another year of progress for the group."

The group’s America Materials division’s sales rose by 6% to Euro3.17bn and its EBITDA rose by 15% to Euro288m. It reported that residential and non-residential demand increased and that publicly funded infrastructure activity remained stable in the US. However, its cement volumes fell by 1% due to declines in Ontario and Quebec, although this was partly offset by increases in the US market. In Asia the group’s sales fell by 11% to Euro244m in part due to lower sales volumes of cement in Philippines with falling prices and higher fuel and power costs.

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CRH consolidates European lime business with acquisition of Fels

24 August 2017

Germany: Ireland’s CRH has acquired Fels, a lime and aggregate business, for Euro600m from Xella International. The purchase includes nine production locations in Germany, one in the Czechia and one in the Moscow region of Russia, as well as over 1Bnt of limestone reserves. The assets will be added to CRH’s Europe Heavyside division. The purchase is expected to make CRH the second largest business in the European lime market. The acquisition has been funded by the sale of CRH’s Americas Distribution business to Beacon Roofing Supply for Euro2.2bn.

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Maeve Carton to retire from board of CRH

02 August 2017

Ireland: Maeve Carton plans to retire as Group Transformation Director of CRH and from its board on 31 August 2017. Since joining CRH in 1988, Maeve has held a number of senior financial roles prior to joining the board as Finance Director in May 2010. She was appointed Group Transformation Director in January 2016.

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