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Topic

Cement exports

Shaking off

Shaking off

Published 06 Nov, 2025 06:14am
Pakistan’s cement industry may be staging a quiet comeback. Four months into FY26, total cement offtake has ...
Cement: Promising first quarter

Cement: Promising first quarter

Updated 08 Oct, 2025 08:35am
Latest numbers for cement offtake reveal a 16 percent recovery in total dispatches in the first qu
Cement: Set in stone

Cement: Set in stone

Updated 03 Oct, 2025 08:13am
Cement demand is making a quiet return, despite floods wreaking havoc across most regions. In the first quarter of...
Cement’s concrete plans

Cement’s concrete plans

Updated 18 Jul, 2025 09:03am
At record low capacity utilization, trailing somewhere below 53 percent, the cement industry is set to grow profits...
Wooing Attock

Wooing Attock

Updated 03 Jun, 2025 07:57am
Attock Cement’s Lebanese owners want out, and the market is buzzing with interest. As a mid-sized cement plant,...
Of delusions of grandeur

Of delusions of grandeur

Published 06 Jan, 2025 08:47am
Some statements made by industry leaders should come with a trigger warning. So fare warnings, readers: ridiculous...
Attock: Fresh start?

Attock: Fresh start?

Published 26 Dec, 2024 08:03am
Despite some investments along the way, Attock cement has been marked with stagnant profitability and growth trends...
Borrowing without boom

Borrowing without boom

Published 17 Dec, 2024 09:01am
Amid a 15 percent decline in domestic demand, considerably limited utilization of existing capacity, and no major...
It’s tepid times for cement

It’s tepid times for cement

Published 06 Dec, 2024 08:48am
Every month, the cement manufacturers association shares the industry’s volumetric sales for public consumption, and...
Pioneer: Waiting for demand

Pioneer: Waiting for demand

Published 02 Dec, 2024 08:43am
Pioneer Cement has a game plan and it involves expansions. To some, this may come across as surprising because...
Cement: Redefining the game

Cement: Redefining the game

Published 20 Nov, 2024 08:47am
There is nothing particularly surprising about the cement industry making reasonable earnings amid a demand drought....
Fecto Cement Limited

Fecto Cement Limited

Published 20 Nov, 2024 08:44am
Fecto Cement Limited (PSX: FECTC) was incorporated in Pakistan as a public limited company in 1981. The company is...
Cement: No cracks in profitability

Cement: No cracks in profitability

Published 18 Nov, 2024 08:41am
It appears that the fate of the cement industry is no longer tied to how strongly the companies perform on volumes....
LSM: Cement pulls growth back

LSM: Cement pulls growth back

Published 24 Oct, 2024 08:08am
The Large Scale Manufacturing (LSM) index for August 2024 was down 2.65 percent year-and-year and served as an early...
Cement’s bag of magic tricks

Cement’s bag of magic tricks

Published 17 Oct, 2024 06:28am
If there is one lesson that Pakistani companies could learn from the cement business, it is how to make money in a...
Fauji: Still mid

Fauji: Still mid

Published 10 Oct, 2024 08:45am
It’s Fauji’s world and we are all just living in it, pun unintended. By Fauji, we mean Fauji Cement (PSX: FCCL), and...
Kohat Cement Company Limited

Kohat Cement Company Limited

Published 09 Oct, 2024 08:52am
Kohat Cement Company Limited (PSX: KOHC) was established by the State Cement Corporation of Pakistan in 1984. In...
Cement: No giving up

Cement: No giving up

Published 08 Oct, 2024 08:58am
It’s not just textiles, folks. The cement industry is witnessing an impressive run in expanding its exports to...
No recovery in sight

No recovery in sight

Updated 04 Oct, 2024 11:19am
Three months into the fiscal year and there doesn’t seem to be any recovery in sight for the construction industry...
Cement financials: All is well

Cement financials: All is well

Published 02 Oct, 2024 09:09am
The economy may be in dire straits but the cement industry is climbing out of its rut in a rather agreeable fashion....
DGKC’s long game?

DGKC’s long game?

Updated 26 Sep, 2024 09:42am
Did you hear the one about DG Khan Cement (PSX: DGKC)’s impressive entry into the United States market via cement...
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