Khaled Al-Shathri, Chairman of the Tabuk Cement Company, announced that the company achieved SR117.2 million net profit in the first nine months of the year 2005, which is an increase by 22 percent from the same period last year which was SR95.7 million. The net profit for the third quarter of 2005 reached SR43.2 million, compared with SR37.2 million from the same period last year, according to a press statement published today.