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India: The first quarter of the 2024 financial year, which began on 1 April 2023, brought revenues of US$72.5m for Heidelberg Cement India, up by 1% year-on-year from US$71.9m during the first quarter of the previous financial year. The subsidiary of Germany-based Heidelberg Materials reported a 1.6% rise in its costs, to US$61.2m from US$60.3m. As such, its net profit rose by 1.3% year-on-year, to US$6.37m, compared to US$6.29m in the first quarter of the 2023 financial year.

India: HeidelbergCement India recorded consolidated sales of US$61.5m during the second quarter of its 2023 financial year, down by 11% year-on-year from US$69.2m in the second quarter of the 2022 financial year. The Heidelberg Materials subsidiary's net profit in the quarter fell by 88% over the year, to US$852,000 from US$7.24m in the 2022 financial year's second quarter. The second quarter of the 2023 financial year brought a 0.3% year-on-year drop in the producer's operating expenses, to US$55.7m from US$55.9m.

India: HeidelbergCement India has commissioned a 5.5MW solar power plant in its mining area located in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh. The mining operations and clinker plant at Damoh have started receiving electricity from the plant. The solar plant is expected to generate 10GWh/yr, replacing electricity purchased from the grid.

India: In its results for the third quarter of the 2022 financial year, HeidelbergCement India has recorded a sales decline of 9.5% year-on-year to US$71.7m from US$79.2m. Its net profit for the quarter was US$4.07m, down by 52% from US$8.51m.

India: HeidelbergCement India’s results in the second quarter of the 2022 financial year showed an 11% year-on-year rise in sales to US$76.1m from US$68.5m in the corresponding quarter of the 2021 financial year. Dion News Service has reported that the company’s net profit for the quarter was US$7.96m, down by 4.6% from US$8.34m. Its operating costs were US$61.5m, up by 19% from US$51.8m.

India: HeidelbergCement India has appointed Ramakrishnan Ramamurthy as its chairman following the resignation of Akila Krishnakumar. Krishnakumar said she wanted to increase her work in the development sector. Ramamurthy started his career with Bosch (India) as an apprentice and worked with Murugappa Group for around twenty years. More recently he was the managing director of GMR Group, the president of Mytrah Energy and the chief executive officer of Sanmar Engineering.

India: Germany-based HeidelbergCement subsidiary HeidelbergCement India has secured 22GWh-worth of power from Lalganj Power. The energy company will source the electricity from its solar power plants. The deal is expected to reduce the company’s CO₂ emissions by 0.4Mt over the life of the contract.

India: HeidelbergCement India’s net profit in the six months to 30 September 2020 – the first half of its 2021 financial year – was US$15.1m, down by 19% year-on-year from US$18.6m in the first half of the 2020 financial year. Its revenues fell by 17% to US$125m from US$151m.

The company attributed the fall to the impacts of the on-going coronavirus outbreak. It said, “The company is taking all possible steps to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 on its business and operations. The management has also evaluated the possible impact of the pandemic on the business operation and, based on its assessment of the current indicators of the future economic conditions, it is expected that the carrying amount of assets will be recovered.”

India: HeidelbergCement has recorded a profit of US$8.77m in the three months to 31 March 2020, up by 8.9% year-on-year from US$8.06m over the corresponding period of the 2018 - 2019 fiscal year. Sales fell by 4.7% to US$67.5m from US$70.8m. HeidelbergCement India has attributed the profit to a decrease in operating expenditure of 8.6%, to US$50.7m from US$55.4m, according to Dion News Service.

India: Germany-based HeidelbergCement has announced the successful expansion of two grinding plants. Accord Fintech News has reported that the company took advantage of the suspension of cement production since 24 March 2020 to complete debottlenecking work at the Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, and Imlai, Madhya Pradesh, grinding plants, bringing their cement production capacities to 3.3Mt/yr and 2.5Mt/yr respectively.

HeidelbergCement India has an integrated capacity of 3.7Mt/yr and a grinding capacity of 6.3Mt/yr (total capacity: 10Mt/yr).