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Jaypee Group in joint venture talks with HeidelbergCement and JSW Cement

16 March 2015

India: Jaypee Group is reportedly in talks with HeidelbergCement and JSW Cement to form a joint venture that will control the majority of its cement plants. The plan envisages a separate joint venture entity that will house around 20 – 22Mt/yr of Jaypee's operational plants in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal, Uttarakhand, Andhra Pradesh and Chattisgarh. The venture may exclude Jaypee's first cement plant in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, which has approximately 3Mt/yr of cement production capacity.

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Lafarge and Holcim to discuss revising merger terms as conflict deepens

16 March 2015

Europe: A conflict between Lafarge and Holcim has deepened as both groups have acknowledged that the terms of their proposed 'merger of equals' may have to be revised to reflect diverging valuations, according to Reuters.

The merger 'Can no longer be pursued in its present form,' said Holcim said in a statement on 16 March 2015. It has proposed a renegotiation of the share exchange ratio and 'governance issues.' Lafarge is willing to consider revising the share-exchange ratio in the merger, but not other aspects of the deal, it said in a separate statement.

The deal announced in April 2014 was intended to combine Lafarge and Holcim on an equal basis, but diverging results, share prices and fluctuations in the Euro and Swiss Franc have led Holcim to seek a revision of the terms. Holcim has proposed changing a proposed 1-1 share exchange ratio to 0.875 Holcim shares for each Lafarge share, according to news reports. Lafarge is said to be planning a counter proposal that would trim its weighting to 0.93 to complete the deal.

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HeidelbergCement completes sale of North American and UK building products business to Lone Star

13 March 2015

US/UK: On 13 March 2015, HeidelbergCement completed the sale of its North American (excluding Western Canada) and UK building products business, Hanson Building Products, to Lone Star. The sale was originally announced on 24 December 2014. HeidelbergCement will receive more than Euro1.2bn, in addition to up to Euro95m payable in 2016, depending on business performance.

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VTB bank selling Hrazdan cement plant

13 March 2015

Armenia: VTB Bank (Armenia), a 100% subsidiary of Russian VTB Bank, is negotiating the sale of its cement plant in Hrazdan, according to the bank's chief executive Yuri Gusev.

In 2014 the bank provided the plant with a loan that was instrumental in resuming its operation. The plant's products are sold in Iran, Iraq, Europe and the Russian Federation. According to Gusev, VTB Bank (Armenia) wants the plant to continue its operation because the town of Hrazdan is a single-enterprise town. "VTB Bank (Armenia) feels its social responsibility for the fate of its residents," said Gusev. He added that the bank would assist the new owner of the cement plant to attract an international investor.

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Reliance Infrastructure might sell Reliance Cement

13 March 2015

India: Reliance Infrastructure, part of Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group, has decided to sell its cement business, Reliance Cement, to fund the acquisition of Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering, which it is acquiring for US$331m.

Reliance Cement is in talks with HeidelbergCement and Italcementi and has offered a 50% stake in the company. The prospective joint venture partner will also fund the company's cement capacity expansion, which is estimated to rise to 15Mt/yr by 2018. Details of the valuation of the possible deal are unknown. HeidelbergCement has operations in Damoh in Madhya Pradesh, Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh and Ammasandra in Karnataka. Italcementi is active in India via Zuari Cement.

Reliance Cement has a 5Mt/yr capacity cement plant in Maihar, Madhya Pradesh. As part of its expansion plan, it is setting up another 5Mt/yr plant in Maharashtra, which is set to be operational by 2017. It is also planning another 5Mt/yr of capacity to be operational by 2018, via a second line in Madhya Pradesh, a new plant in Karnataka or a new plant in Rajasthan.

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Podilskiy Cement reports Euro123m loss for 2014

13 March 2015

Ukraine: Podilskiy Cement, part of Ireland's CRH, has reported a loss of Euro123m for 2014, following a Euro5.05m loss in 2013. Podilskiy Cement enterprise has six kilns for the production of cement with the total capacity of 3.7Mt/yr.

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Cement market to grow between 3% and 5% in 2015

13 March 2015

Mexico: Mexico's cement market could grow by 3 - 5% in 2015, driven by dynamism in the housing sector, an increase in the amount of cash remittances migrants send home and the government's national infrastructure programme, according to Holcim. Growth could, however, be limited by low crude oil revenues, federal government budget cuts and the US Dollar exchange rate volatility. Nevertheless, 2015 is likely to be much better than 2014 as far as cement sales are concerned.

The local construction industry continued to recover in the first two months of 2015 as it did after the second half of 2014. Cement sales for infrastructure projects might be driven by growth in three sectors, namely road, airport and port construction, energy construction and water pipeline and dam construction. Infrastructure projects account for 30 - 40% of cement consumption in Mexico. Housing construction accounts for 40% of all sales. An increase in the arrival of cash remittances is expected to trigger more sales of cement for housing projects. Commercial and industrial construction projects consume 20% of all sales and this segment has performed very well in recent months.

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Lafarge and Holcim in talks to renegotiate merger

12 March 2015

Europe: Holcim and Lafarge are in talks to renegotiate the terms of their Euro41bn merger after a divergence in the value of the two companies over the past year. The two sides are holding discussions that might result in changes to the terms of the one-for-one share deal announced last April 2015, according to The Financial Times.

It in unclear how the renegotiation might affect CRH, which agreed in February 2015 to pay Euro6.5bn for assets being sold by the two companies as they sought to address potential competition concerns over the deal.

In recent weeks Holcim shareholders have raised concerns over the terms of the deal, most vocally a representative for the Schmidheiny family, which is Holcim's largest investor. Thomas Schmidheiny, head of the family and a former Holcim chairman, wanted the terms of the deal renegotiated. Holcim's second largest shareholder, Eurocement, which is owned by Russian Filaret Galchev and holds 10% of the shares, has not publicly supported the deal.

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HeidelbergCement adds new deputy chairman

18 March 2015

Germany: The Supervisory Board of HeidelbergCement AG has amended the structure of its managing board with the addition of a new deputy chairman position. Dominik von Achten, managing board member in charge of the North America group, group purchasing and the competence centre materials, assumed the role on 1 February 2015. It was also announced that Bernd Scheifele would continue as chairman of the managing board for the next five years.

"HeidelbergCement is very glad that both Scheifele and von Achten, together with the management and employees of the company, will continue their successful work of the past years. This step will guarantee continuity in the years to come as well as a trusting and constructive cooperation between supervisory board and managing board," said Fritz-Jürgen Heckmann, chairman of the supervisory board.

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