Holcim提高水泥价格以保持利润率（中英文）

　　近日，瑞士水泥制造商holcim的一个高级行政人员告诉印度标准报，面对能源价格上涨，为保持利润率，印度水泥价格和其他市场不得不提高价格。

 

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

 

　　holcim执行委员会成员Paul Hugentobler说，如果把今年一季度与去年同期的利润相比，我们的利润下降了5%到7%。如果投入成本象这样继续上升，我们别无选择，只有提高价格。为保持利润，全球水泥价格已经由一吨20美元涨到一吨30美元，但是较高的价格可能会导致需求放缓。

 

　　蓬勃发展的新兴市场使holcim2007年纯利润增长了84％，但印度政府采取措施控制通货膨胀，因此对水泥企业施加压力，控制水泥维持较低价格。Hugentobler说，如果这种情况持续下去，在这个快速增长的市场上水泥公司可能就要关门了。没有其他办法。

　　Hugentobler 还说，Holcim 选择用其他燃料来降低成本。因此，我们的利润率承受着压力，煤炭价格已经上升了60 ％。我们正在研究用风力、废气和替代颜料来代替石油和煤炭。

　　Hugentobler猜测，holcim最终将合并ACC 和Ambuja 水泥公司。他说：“们可以随时发送会计师合并资产负债表，但是合并两个公司的文化是非常困难的。”“因此我们到目前为止也没有制定合并两个公司的计划。”

 

　　(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.’