China National Building Materials (CNBM) plans to increase its stake in Tianshan Cement to 88 per cent from 46 per cent as part of its restructuring drive. Tianshan Cement will acquire outright fellow CNBM subsidiaries China United Cement and Sinoma Cement. It will also acquire CNBM?? majority stakes in Southwest Cement and South Cement. The group says that it has completed the audit, evaluation and evaluation filing for the reorganisation. It follows an announcement in the summer of 2020 about the plan.
In a related transaction, Tianshan Cement said it had agreed to buy Jiangxi Wannianqing Cement?? 1.3 per cent stake in South Cement. Reuters has reported that value of this deal as $96.0m.
CNBM said that the restructuring is intended to, ??romote the integration of high-quality resources, strengthen the company?? leading position in the cement industry and facilitate resolving industry competition among subsidiaries of the company in the cement business sector.??/p>