Special reports

An insight into training and development at the Hope cement plant, and how a can-do attitude helps the site to enhance performance and achieve health and safety goals.

George Handley tells how current costing and pricing systems could be improved to make your cement plant the most profitable in India.

To mark its bicentenary in 2012, Fives asked the people of France about their feelings on the subject of industry and industrial plants. The Group has followed this up by conducting the same survey in China and the US.

Rule 8: Eventually it is in the best interest of everyone to work together

Rule 7: You must have a champion in the House and the Senate

Rule 6: Look big, be everywhere

Rules 4 and 5: Make the decision-makers own the decision and the outcome, and the threat of legislation can sometimes be as good as or better than passing legislation

Rule 3 - Exhaust your administrative remedies, but have an end game.

Rule 2: Know your target audience and their pressure points

Rule 1: You can't go half speed

Introducing our latest series of special reports, which shares Titan America’s approach to concrete advocacy.

Terry Smith, Lubrication Engineers, Inc., examines toxicity testing for industrial lubricants.

Rick Bohan and Andy O’Hare, Portland Cement Association, USA, discuss the amendments made to the standard’s rules for compliance over the last year. This is an abridged version of the full article, which appeared in the January 2013 issue of World Cement. Subscribers can view the full article by logging in.

Hard evidence of devastating market conditions is found in the demolition data, as the ultimate tool to cut capacity is applied to the final frontier

Will winter create the long-awaited demand, or will more VLCC tonnage have to be idled or be demolished?