Irish building materials firm CRH has announced the co-option to the board of Patrick Kennedy as a non-executive director, with effect from 1 January 2015. Mr Kennedy joins the board having retired this year from SHV Holdings, a large family-owned Dutch multinational company with interests in energy, industrial services, heavy lifting and transport solutions, among others, where he was Chairman of the Executive Board of Directors.
Mr Kennedy holds a Master’s degree in Business Studies from University College Dublin and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Optimisation 2020 provides a unique online forum for cement industry professionals to hear first-hand from experts through a series of exclusive presentations from cement producers and industry experts.
World Cement Editor, David Bizley, sat down with Michael Tay, Advanced Analytics Product Manager at Rockwell Automation to discuss his recent article in World Cement.
Entitled ‘Smooth Sailing’, this article explains how machine learning can help save energy, reduce downtime and predict equipment failures, thus enabling the smooth running of cement plant operations.
David Bizley, Editor of World Cement, sat down with John Kline, Chairman of the IEEE East Coast Virtual Conference, to hear his thoughts on the impact of the pandemic on the cement industry, this year's virtual conference, and more.
CRH plc has announced that it has reached an agreement to divest its clay and concrete businesses in the UK and its clay business in the US to funds managed by Bain Capital Europe LLP.
