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Jorge Méndez resigns as president of INC
Written by Global Cement staff
09 May 2018
Paraguay: Jorge Méndez has resigned as the president of Industria Nacional del Cemento (INC). He had been in post since 2013, according to La Nación newspaper.
Simon Shipp becomes general manager of Aumund USA
Written by Global Cement staff
09 May 2018
US: Simon Shipp has become the general manager of Aumund USA. He holds over 25 years of international experience in mechanical engineering, in particular with conveying equipment for bulk materials. Shipp succeeds Geoffrey Conroy who has held the post for nearly 20 years. Conroy will remain on the board in a consultant role.
UK Quality Ash Association appoints Allan Everett as chair
Written by Global Cement staff
09 May 2018
UK: The UK Quality Ash Association (UKQAA) has appointed Tarmac’s Allan Everett as the association’s new chair, taking over from Power Minerals’ Ivan Skidmore. Everett will be joined by Richard Boult, who has also been announced as the UKQAA’s new Technical Committee Chair. Boult is Commercial Technical Manager at Cemex UK. He will work with UKQAA’s Technical Committee members to develop and assess technical projects exploring new sources and uses for quality ash.
The UKQAA is an industry association for the use of quality ash in construction and engineering applications and represents a range of members from across the construction supply chain.
Germany: HeidelbergCement has increased its sales volumes of cement in the first quarter of 2018 despite facing poor weather and coping with reduced working days. Sales volumes of cement rose by 2% year-on-year to 28.2Mt from 27.5Mt in the same period in 2017. Falling sales volumes in Europe and North America were offset by growth in Asia-Pacific and Africa-Eastern Mediterranean Basin. In Asia, Indonesia and India contributed strongly to its growth, the cement producer said. In Africa, increases in sales volumes were recorded in Egypt, Ghana and Tanzania. Its sales revenue increased on a like-for-like basis by 2% to Euro3.78bn.
“HeidelbergCement generated a profit in the seasonally weak first quarter and despite difficult weather conditions,” said Bernd Scheifele, chairman of the managing board of HeidelbergCement. “Our successful management of the portfolio and financial result more than compensated for the weather-related decline in operating result.”
The group completed its acquisition of Cementir Italia in Italy and the Alex Fraser Group in Australia in the reporting period. It also finished the sale of the sand-lime brick operating line in Germany and its white cement business in the US.
Thailand: SCG’s cement business’ earnings have risen due to higher local prices and cost savings in the first quarter of 2018. Its earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBTIDA) rose by 7% year-on-year to US$201m in the first quarter of 2018 from US$195m in the same period in 2017. The company said that local demand for cement remained flat in the reporting period as increased demand from the government sector balanced out declines elsewhere. Local exports rose by 20% to 1.2Mt.