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Tunisia: Carthage Cement saw a 35% rise in turnover during the first quarter of 2023 to reach US$37.3m. The company explained that the improvement was mainly due to a 64% increase in export turnover, which rose from US$4.0m in the first quarter of 2022 to US$6.5m in the first quarter of 2023. Local turnover was also higher, rising by 30% year-on-year to US$27.6m.

Tunisia: Carthage Cement recorded a turnover of US$119m during 2022, up by 13% year-on-year from US$105m. The producer invested US$8.17m in capital expenditure projects during the year, up by 18% from US$6.95m. Africa Manager News has reported that Carthage Cement's debt fell by 8% year-on-year to US$123m at the end of 2022.

France: France-based Saint-Gobain has acquired Chryso from financier Cinven for Euro1.02bn. The Le Moniteur newspaper has reported that the group will operationally integrate Chryso into its high performance solutions division. It said that it intends to develop Chryso in markets already served by Saint-Gobain, and to accelerate cross-selling between Weber and Chryso.

CEO Benoit Bazin said "Chryso strengthens us significantly in the growing construction chemicals market, in which we have made 10 acquisitions and opened 16 plants in 18 countries over the past three years to now exceed more than Euro3bn in turnover in 66 countries.”