Peru: Domestic cement sales climbed by 8.25% in Peru in May 2018. They had grown by 8.17% in April 2018, according to figures released by the National Institute of Statistics.
Bamburi Cement completes new line at Nairobi grinding plant
Kenya: Bamburi Cement has completed construction of a new US$40m production line at its grinding plant in Nairobi. The new unit will allow the company to start manufacturing two new high strength products that were previously only produced at its Mombasa plant, according to the Kenya Broadcasting Association. The new line increases the plant’s cement production capacity by 0.9Mt/yr to 2.4Mt/yr.
Lafarge’s Czech sales increase but profit falls
Czech Republic: Lafarge Cement’s sales in Czechia increased by almost 7% to Euro38.2m in 2017 but its profit dropped by 25% to Euro5.9m, according to spokeswoman Milena Hucanova.
Czech construction registered only moderate growth in 2017, which was reflected in the company's sales. Operating profit was comparable with the level from 2016.
"The company's net profit was mainly as a consequence of changes in the volume and appraisal of inventories, higher consumption of carbon credits and the firming up of the Koruna / Euro (exchange) rate after the Czech National Bank’s interventions," said CFO Jan Mencl.
Investments by the company in 2018 are planned to amount to Euro3.8m. Hucanova said that half of this had already been spent on the conversion of an electrostatic precipitator to a baghouse at the company’s Čížkovice plant.
Sudanese government to support cement exports
Sudan: Musa Mohamed Karama, the Minister of Industry, says that government is keen to remove all obstacles facing the cement industry including a block on exports. The announcement follows a meeting with Mohamed Abdullah, the UAE-based chairman of Berber Cement Company, according to the Sudan News Agency. The country’s cement production capacity exceeds its domestic consumption.
