India’s Shiva Cement has reported a deepening net loss of INR86m (US$1.33m) in the July-September 2017 quarter when compared with a net loss of INR26.3m in the year-ago quarter.

Sales fell 41.8 per cent to INR36.6m in the quarter ended September 2017 when compared with INR62.9m in the July-September 2016 quarter.