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It doesn’t happen often, so we should celebrate when the mainstream media praises a waste fuel program. This Tulsa World article includes some very positive statements about the Lafarge tire burning program at the Tulsa plant, and avoids the FUD that normally accompanies such an article (only to provide “balance” of course!) They even make a [...] Here’s an exercise: Make a list of all the industries that have resisted some fundamental change in their business environment, be it regulatory or market driven, on the grounds that the result would be devastating to the business, the job market and ultimately costly for consumers. The industry was just too big, too important, and society [...] Related items on BridgeGap Engineering blog The EPA has formally proposed new regulations to limit the mercury emissions from cement kilns to 43 pounds per million tons of production. They arrived at this figure by examining the top 1/8 of kilns in the US (Recall during our earlier post on Keith Barnett’s presentation that MACT Standards, by law, [...] I listened in on a very interesting teleconference this week through a service called Author Teleseminars (free membership) with Keith Ferrazzi, author of “Who’s Got Your Back“. Also on the call were Authors Daniel Pink (“A Whole New Mind“) and Pam Slim (“Escape From Cubicle Nation“). It was an excellent seminar focused on the importance of [...] Yesterday, while Lafarge was announcing a 750 million Euro bond issue to solidify its short term dept, Holcim was suprrising many in the industry by announcing an acquisition of Cemex assets in Austrialia for a significant 1.6 billion dollars. Analysts characterized the deal as “too good to pass up” for Holcim. Still, in the current business [...] Michael Mandel has an interesting article at BusinessWeek where he speculates that part of the blame for the current economic slump can be placed on a failure to innovate over the last decade. This is somewhat shocking at first, given all the hype innovation has received in the business world and the general press. On the [...] It was about a year ago that I first heard about Calera, a mysterious company that claims to be able to make cement by reacting CO2 and seawater with some “magic pixie dust” to produce a cement like material. Their claims have been widely disputed and their secretive nature has not done much to help the [...] How will Business in the 21st Century Look? Sure it depends on your industry… but the value of time… how can you measure it? Check out this link - Sony played this mind-blowing video at their Executive conference this year Mind-Blowing Video… time in the 21st century In the 21st Century where knowledge is relatively cheap, time is nearly priceless and [...] The build-up related to another “Cooler Wars” panel discussion for this week’s IEEE Conference Participants turned out to be very anticlimactic. Following the panel discussion, nearly all of the participants polled concluded that there is very little in the way of technology that currently differentiate the major OEMs (KHD, Polysius, FLSmidth, Claudius Peters) when it comes [...] Notwithstanding the excellent speech by Ed Sullivan at the IEEE Conference we reported on, the Washington Post today reports that job losses slowed dramatically in May, and were far smaller than analysts predictions, fueling hopes that economic recovery is near. While the hoped for bottom in housing has yet to be seen, more promising signs seem to be [...] |
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