Quarry Products

Pakistan-based company Lucky Cement recorded an annual 3.9% increase in net sales from PKR 43.08 billion (€370.78 million/US$413.42 million) to PKR 44.76 billion in the year ended 30 June, 2015.

This was followed by 7% in local sales from 4.13 million tonnes to 4.42 million tonnes on a year-on-year basis.

In the year under review, Lucky Cement registered a 9.6% rise in net profit from PKR 11.34 billion to PKR 12.43 billion, followed by 15.68% in consolidated net profit to PKR 13.76 billion.

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The Spanish construction company FCC has ruled out a potential sale of its 77.9% stake of cement company Cementos Portland Valderrivas, as suggested by Citi.

Citi recently announced that FCC was planning to sell its cement division within the next two years. This would be a necessary step in FCC's development as its corporate debt amounts to €1.36 billion, Citi pointed out.

The company also suggested that a quick sale at a reasonable price would be well received by the financial markets.

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The UK Mineral Products Association (MPA) is launching a new publication, Dimension Stone – an Essential UK Industry.

MPA says that dimension stone producers are economically and culturally significant, producing 1 million tonnes of high value stone/year.

Dimension stone is used widely in new construction but is also of key importance to heritage assets and local distinctiveness.

CRH Concrete, the Danish subsidiary of the Irish group CRH, wants to continue expanding through acquisitions and is planning new acquisitions, according to Claus Bering, its managing director, who is also chairman of trade organisation the Danish Construction Association.

The company is interested in both the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian markets.

Bering says that CRH Concrete is also interested in related operations.

Alex Car has been unveiled as the Essroc Italcementi Group’s (EIG) new chief executive. Having previously served as senior vice president of cement sales and marketing and general manager of construction materials at Essroc, Car succeeds Francesco Carantani, who will be undertaking new duties within the company.

India’s Pearl Mineral and Mines extracts 1,500m³ of granite/year with over half of its produce sold overseas.

Granite, the second hardest natural rock after diamond, owes its hardness and density to the fact that it has solidified deep inside the earth under extreme pressure.
Over time, shifts in the planet’s crust forces veins of granite to the surface, where commercial uses are found for it.
Pearl Mineral and Mines is one of the top producers and exporters of Indian granite. Located on India’s south

The Lukyanovsky Mining and Processing Plant in Russia plans to up production to 200,000tonnes of quartz sand/year for the glass industry.

In 2016, the company plans to begin the construction of a dry mixes plant, raise the output of quartz sand to 500,000tonnes and increase staff numbers to 150 workers.