Fauji Cement: On its way to become the third largest cement company. Has 3 plant locations. The recent addition of 2mn tons at Nizampur has taken the capacity to 8.4mn tons.
Planned expansion at Dera Ghazi Khan of 2mn tons, is expected to commence operations by CY23 end. CapEx is estimated at Rs38bn financed with a Debt: Rs23bn & Equity: Rs15bn. Major portion with debt under TERF and LTFF arrangements. FCCL could only manage to secure Rs4bn under TERF and it will now not be able to avail LTFF rates for the upcoming expansion. This will have an impact of Rs800mn.
40% of the equipment import is remaining.
FCCL fuel mix for 1HFY23: Afghan coal being 44% ,local coal at 52-53% in the coal mix. Afghan coal prices are around Rs52-55k/ton, while local coal is at Rs33-35k/ton. Landed cost for imported coal comes to around Rs60-62k/ton.
current coal cost ia around Rs42-43k/ton compared to around Rs 38k/ton in 2QFY23.