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News Continental Building Products fights slow home build market in second quarter of 2019

Continental Building Products fights slow home build market in second quarter of 2019

Written by Global Cement staff
05 August 2019
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US: Continental Building Products says it has been confronting a ‘sluggish’ new home construction market in the second quarter of 2019. Jay Bachmann, president and chief executive officer (CEO), said that the company was expecting the market to recover in the second half of the year and its improvement programme to reduce costs. Its net sales fell by 4% year-on-year to US$246m in the first half of 2019 from US$256m in the same period in 2018. Its net income dropped by 34% to US$28.8m from US$35.5m. Its gypsum wallboard volumes fell slightly by to 123Mm2.

The wallboard producer also said that the shutdown of its Buchanan plant in New York due to mechanical failure might cause a boost operating income and earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of up to US$2m once an insurance claim is settled. The plant was shut from January 2019 to 15 March 2019. The company increased production at its plants in Silver Grove, Kentucky and Palatka, Florida to offset a portion of the lost production from the Buchanan plant.

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