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Malaysia: Malayan Cement’s net profit rose by 45% year-on-year to US$31.4m for the first quarter of the 2025 financial year ending 30 September 2024, up from US$21.6m in the same period in 2023. Revenue increased by 3% year-on-year to US$264m from around US$257m. The company stated that its ready-mixed concrete segment had contributed a higher share of revenue due to heightened demand for concrete products. It anticipates continued domestic demand and plans to increase export capacities, especially at its Langkawi plant.

Malaysia: Malayan Cement’s net profit for the first quarter of its current fiscal year, the three months to 30 September 2023, increased to US$20.5m from US$203,000 during the same period of the prior fiscal year. Its revenue also rose, to US$250m from US$183m. This was mainly due to higher sales volumes and stabilisation in the selling prices of domestic cement and ready-mixed concrete.

Malaysia: Malayan Cement recorded consolidated sales of US$808m during the 2023 financial year, up by 39% year-on-year from US$583m in the previous financial year. Its net profit was US$34.2m, up by 90% from US$18m. The company partly attributed its sales growth to its incorporation of YTL Cement, which took place in the 2022 financial year on 21 September 2021. It also increased its cement sales volumes and prices.

Looking to the current, 2024 financial year, Malayan Cement said “Non-residential construction activities are expected to benefit from higher investments in manufacturing facilities, given the shift in global supply chains. Nonetheless, the group's optimism is tempered with caution, as inflation and higher interest rates may have a knock-on effect on cement demand.” It added “Our ability to deliver seamless solutions to customers will be optimised, boding well for the positive growth and outlook of the group and the industry going forward.”

Malaysia: Malayan Cement expects its sales of cement to remain level at 8Mt/yr throughout the 2023 and 2024 financial years. The New Straits Times newspaper has reported that the producer forecast consistent declines in its cement prices over the period. Meanwhile, it expects the price of Indonesian coal, which it imports for use as fuel, to drop to US$285/t in the 2023 financial year, then by 42% to US$165/t in the 2024 financial year and by 12% to US$145/t in the 2025 financial year.

Malaysia: Malayan Cement recorded sales of US$192m during the third quarter of 2022, more than triple its third-quarter 2021 sales of US$63.6m. The company recorded a US$213,000 profit, compared to a US$5.29m loss in the corresponding quarter of 2021.

 Malaysia: Malayan Cement has agreed to acquire YTL Cement’s cement and ready-mix concrete operations in Malaysia. MarketLine News has reported the value of the deal as US$1.25bn.

Malaysia: Malayan Cement is expected to raise US$55.0m through a proposed placement of 10% of its shares. Bernama Daily Malaysian News has reported that the company plans to use US$13.1m as working capital. The remainder will repay its bank debts.

Malaysia: Malayan Cement has appointed Ho Say Keng as its company secretary. Serene Lee Huey Fei and Koh Poi San have resigned from the post.

Ho Say Keng is the company secretary/accountant of the YTL Corporation Group, YTL Power Group, YTL Land & Development Group and YTL Cement Group. She is a fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA), a registered member of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and an affiliate member of the Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. She obtained her Diploma of Commerce (Financial Accounting) from Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman in 1981. She joined the YTL Corporation Berhad Group in May 1986 and her responsibilities include coordination of the group's treasury, banking and corporate finance matters.

Malaysia: Lafarge Malaysia has been renamed as Malayan Cement. It follows the divestment of the cement producer from LafargeHolcim to YTL Cement in May 2019.