Indocement to close inefficient cement plants in Citeureup, West Java

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Indonesia: Indocement Tunggal Prakarsa plans to discontinue production at its P1, P2, and P6 cement plants in Citeureup, West Java to improve efficiency and maintain margin stability amid weak demand in the cement industry.

"We seek to stabilise margins in 2015 by shutting down plants that are not efficient, including plants P1, P2 and P6 in Citeureup," said Christian Kartawijaya, president director of Indocement. He said that operations in plants P1, P2, and P6 were no longer efficient and that they were usually only used as backup when another plant was on maintenance. The lost production from the closure of the three plants will soon be replaced by production from the new 4.4Mt/yr capacity P14 plant, which is due for completion by the end of 2015.

Indocement also plans to reduce fixed costs and to postpone some of its non-urgent projects and expansions, including cutting down 2015's capital expenditure to maintain its performance. "We plan to decrease our 2015 capital expenditure to US$258m, as demand for cement has not risen amid a cement supply hike. Therefore, we will try to postpone our investments," said Kartawijaya. He added that the purchase of stone reserves and the investment in a new cement plant in Pati, Central Java will be postponed.

Indocement's revenues for the first six months of 2015 dropped by 6.6% year-on-year to US$654m due to an 8.8% decline of domestic sales to 8.2Mt. Its market share also shrank to 29.1% from 30.5% in 2014 due to weak domestic consumption, tight competition and oversupply in the national market. The decline in revenue and sales volume also resulted in 4.7% lower earnings (US$226m) before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) and an 8.4% lower net profit at US$169m for the first half of 2015.

Last modified on 12 August 2015

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