{"id":230980,"date":"2026-04-22T03:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-sicable-posts-loss-in-q1-as-maintenance-halt-metal-price-surge-bite\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:11:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:11:05","slug":"cote-divoire-sicable-posts-loss-in-q1-as-maintenance-halt-metal-price-surge-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-sicable-posts-loss-in-q1-as-maintenance-halt-metal-price-surge-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Sicable Posts Loss in Q1 As Maintenance Halt, Metal Price Surge Bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Sicable, the Abidjan-based electric cable maker and Ivorian subsidiary of Italy&#8217;s Prysmian Group, swung to a net loss of 221.7 million FCFA ($397,500) in the first quarter of 2026, from a profit of 211.2 million FCFA ($378,700) in the same period of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Revenue fell 26.5% to 3.79 billion FCFA ($6.8 million) from 5.16 billion FCFA ($9.3 million) a year earlier, as a planned overhaul of the company&#8217;s production machines cut sales volumes by 27%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The operating result turned negative, coming in at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604210613.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sicable, the Abidjan-based electric cable maker and Ivorian subsidiary of Italy&#8217;s Prysmian Group, swung to a net loss of 221.7 million FCFA ($397,500) in the first quarter of 2026, from a profit of 211.2 million FCFA ($378,700) in the same period of 2025. Revenue fell 26.5% to 3.79 billion FCFA ($6.8 million) from 5.16 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":230981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,21056,5958,6183,6555,5959,7520,1218,9183,13502,26505,257,7032,8689,53923,254,10716],"class_list":["post-230980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bite","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-halt","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-loss","tag-maintenance","tag-metal","tag-news","tag-posts","tag-price","tag-sicable","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}