Holcim提高水泥價格以保持利潤率（中英文）

　　近日，瑞士水泥制造商holcim的一個高級行政人員告訴印度標(biāo)準(zhǔn)報，面對能源價格上漲，為保持利潤率，印度水泥價格和其他市場不得不提高價格。

 

　　Holcim在印度ACC有限公司和Ambuja水泥有限公司持有超過40%的股份。

 

　　holcim執(zhí)行委員會成員Paul Hugentobler說，如果把今年一季度與去年同期的利潤相比，我們的利潤下降了5%到7%。如果投入成本象這樣繼續(xù)上升，我們別無選擇，只有提高價格。為保持利潤，全球水泥價格已經(jīng)由一噸20美元漲到一噸30美元，但是較高的價格可能會導(dǎo)致需求放緩。

 

　　蓬勃發(fā)展的新興市場使holcim2007年純利潤增長了84％，但印度政府采取措施控制通貨膨脹，因此對水泥企業(yè)施加壓力，控制水泥維持較低價格。Hugentobler說，如果這種情況持續(xù)下去，在這個快速增長的市場上水泥公司可能就要關(guān)門了。沒有其他辦法。

　　Hugentobler 還說，Holcim 選擇用其他燃料來降低成本。因此，我們的利潤率承受著壓力，煤炭價格已經(jīng)上升了60 ％。我們正在研究用風(fēng)力、廢氣和替代顏料來代替石油和煤炭。

　　Hugentobler猜測，holcim最終將合并ACC 和Ambuja 水泥公司。他說：“們可以隨時發(fā)送會計(jì)師合并資產(chǎn)負(fù)債表，但是合并兩個公司的文化是非常困難的?！薄耙虼宋覀兊侥壳盀橹挂矝]有制定合并兩個公司的計(jì)劃。”

 

　　(MUMBAI, INDIA)  --  Higher cement prices in India and other markets were necessary to maintain margins in the face of rising energy costs, a senior executive of Swiss cement maker Holcim told India's Business Standard paper at the weekend.

　　Holcim holds more than 40 percent each in India's ACC Ltd and Ambuja Cements Ltd.

　　‘If we compare the first quarter of this calender year with the same period of last year, our profitability has come down by 5-7 percent,’ Paul Hugentobler, a member of Holcim's executive committee, was quoted as saying.

　　‘If input costs continue to rise like this, we will not have any other option but to raise prices.’

　　Cement prices across the world had to rise by $20 to $30 a tonne so companies can maintain profits, he told the paper.

　　But higher prices could lead to a slowdown in demand, he said.

　　Booming emerging markets helped Holcim post an 84 percent increase in 2007 net profit, but in India government measures to contain inflation were putting pressure on cement firms to hold down prices.

　　If that were to continue, Hugentobler said, cement companies may have to shut shop in the fast-growing market.

　　‘There is no way out,’ he was quoted as saying.

　　Holcim was using alternative fuels to cut energy costs, he said.

　　‘Of course our margins are under pressure,’ he said. ‘Coal prices have gone up by 60 percent. We are looking at the option of substituting oil and coal with windpower, waste steam and alternative fuel.’

　　On speculation that Holcim will eventually merge ACC with Ambuja Cements, he said: ‘We can always send the accountants to merge the balance sheet, but it is very difficult to merge the culture of both the companies.’

　　‘We have no plans as of now to merge the two entities.’