Lucky Cement, Pakistan, has posted profit after tax of Rs.2.67 billion for the first quarter of its financial year, up 4.8% from last year. Gross profits increased 5.9% in the quarter, while net sales revenue was up 12.2% at Rs.10.470 billion. Local sales volumes were also up, seeing a rise from last year’s 0.850 million t in the first quarter, to 0.965 million t in 1Q15.
The company is working on a waste heat recovery plant for its plant in Karachi. THE WHR system will have a capacity of 5 MW and is set to be complete in January next year, while another unit in its Pezu plant is on track to become operational in September 2015. Lucky Cement reports a decline in gross margins for 1Q15, largely due to higher costs for fuel and power.
Optimisation 2020 provides a unique online forum for cement industry professionals to hear first-hand from experts through a series of exclusive presentations from cement producers and industry experts.
World Cement Editor, David Bizley, sat down with Michael Tay, Advanced Analytics Product Manager at Rockwell Automation to discuss his recent article in World Cement.
Entitled ‘Smooth Sailing’, this article explains how machine learning can help save energy, reduce downtime and predict equipment failures, thus enabling the smooth running of cement plant operations.
Dirk Schmidt and Eugen Geibel, KIMA Process Control, discuss how the methods of High-Level Control (HLC) have been used in the cement industry in the early 2000s and control ever more complex closed-loop-controlled processes where standard controllers fail.
In the second part of this abridged article, Lucky Cement’s Noman Hasan discusses the company’s operations in Pakistan and the huge potential of the country’s cement industry.
Noman Hasan, Lucky Cement Limited, takes a look at the development and expansion of the Pakistani cement industry in the first part of this abridged article taken from World Cement’s October issue.
