Tapai Group said in a recent investor survey that since this year, the company's coal purchase price has gradually fallen, which has led to a corresponding decline in cement manufacturing costs. The Company will further broaden the coal procurement channels, pay attention to relevant policies and market changes, strengthen the scientific research and judgment on the trend of coal price, reasonably control the procurement rhythm, dynamically manage the inventory, and strive to reduce the cost of coal procurement and the impact of fluctuations.
For the brilliant performance in the first half of this year, Tapai Group said that in the first half of this year, in view of the new situation and changes in the cement industry, on the one hand, the company strengthened the control and construction of the market side, responded scientifically and implemented precise policies to further consolidate the company's market share; On the other hand, we will continue to strengthen internal management, firmly promote cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, strengthen cost control, deepen benchmarking, strengthen research and judgment on coal price trends and optimize procurement rhythm, continue to streamline institutions and optimize personnel, establish and improve flexible salary system, continuously reduce production costs and reduce operating costs, and accelerate solid waste projects. Gradually clear inefficient production capacity and shut down low-quality enterprises, help the company to slim down and go into battle lightly, and further enhance the competitiveness of the company. In the first half of this year
, the company's cement sales increased by 12.51%, the coal purchase price decreased by 20.07%, the average cost of cement sales decreased by 12.36%, and the company's comprehensive gross profit rate increased from 20.44% to 27.91%. Increased by 7.47 percentage points, the profitability of the main business improved significantly year on year, and combined with the floating profit of the company's securities investment in the first half of the year, the non-recurring profit and loss increased by 127 million yuan year on year, which led to a substantial increase of 178.03% in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year.
Tapai Group also pointed out that the state has recently released a lot of favorable policies for real estate, but it will take some time for the real estate regulation and optimization policy to be effective until the whole chain is optimized. According to the current relevant statistical data, the real estate industry is still in the bottom adjustment stage, the real estate investment continues to decline, the shortage of project funds is serious, the number of new projects is less, and the construction progress of projects under construction is slow, resulting in a weak recovery of the national cement demand, and the overall demand for cement tends to decline.
From the supply side, the cement industry continues to adhere to the principle of green, low-carbon and high-quality development, and the implementation of strong normalization of peak staggering production is conducive to further easing the contradiction between supply and demand. Therefore, the next trend of the cement market mainly depends on the recovery of market demand and the implementation of off-peak production.
According to the situation of Guangdong cement market, the rainy weather increased significantly in the third quarter, and the influx of low-priced cement from outside the province continued, which aggravated the shrinkage of market demand and led to a more prominent contradiction between supply and demand in the market. Cement prices continue to fall.
As for the future development of the company, Tapai Group said that cement is an important basic raw material for the development of the national economy, there is no alternative material at present, and there is still a certain rigid demand in the future. The company will continue to strengthen and refine its main cement industry, actively promote the construction of intelligent factories, green factories, green mines and first-class safety standard enterprises, continuously improve the company's intelligent manufacturing level, continuously promote resource conservation, pollution reduction, carbon reduction and energy consumption reduction, and realize the green transformation and high-quality development of traditional industries. In the future, it is not excluded to further expand and strengthen the main cement business through acquisition and merger. The preconditions mainly depend on the market supply and demand situation, resource endowment conditions, transaction price, synergy effect and other factors of the target.
At the same time, the company is accelerating the construction of solid waste co-disposal projects in cement kilns to further expand the scale of solid waste industry. In addition, the Company will actively explore new industries suitable for the development of the Company. At present, the Company is planning to develop biotechnology projects and strive to cultivate new economic growth points. If the requirements of the Company are met, the Company will fulfill its information disclosure obligations in a timely manner as required.