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Control Engineering reports that Cemex has been awarded the Energy Star Partner of the Year award for a second time. Cemex has been an Energy Star partner since 2004, and in 2009 saved more than 1.1. million MMBTU on energy, cutting an equivalent of 107,500 metric tons of CO2 emissions. In a time of economic stress, Cemex, [...] BGE has been hitting the pavement hard in recent weeks serving our customers and exploring opportunities, as a result, the blog has fallen a bit too silent. We won’t let that become a habit (well, serving customers and exploring opportunities are habits we intend to keep). Nevertheless, interesting news has not rested! Through an article on tonic [...] Part five – A new reality and the way forward Ours has been a long journey, starting with a melting pot of equipment manufacturers and cement producers who had close ties, progressing through a period of globalization. We watched the Chinese enter the market and examined the response. Today we close our story by taking a final [...] Part Four: The response To this point, everything we’ve discussed in this series has been a trip down memory lane. Today we start to examine the latest changes, and where things stand today. Western equipment suppliers had already been in a race to remain competitive, and cost reduction was a major focus for the reasons described in Part [...] Part Three: Enter The Dragon Previously we examined the cement industry and the relationship between all the players as it existed for generations, and then looked at how it began to change in the face of globalization. Today our little story about differentiation and changes in the marketplace is going to turn its focus on the relatively [...] Part Two: Globalization and Consolidation This is the second article in continuing series about how equipment and service suppliers differentiate themselves in the eyes of the cement producers. In the previous article, “One big happy family” we examined the time period where cement producers, equipment suppliers and manufacturers were generally well mixed and experience was widely shared. [...] Cement producers today face a globally competitive economic landscape and a wide variety of choices in how they approach major and minor capital expenditures. For suppliers the game is all about differentiation and defining what value they can offer. How can the producers navigate these waters? We at BGE thought it would be worthwhile to look [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Phil Gaynor shared his thoughts on the purpose of this conference: Knowledge Transfer This conference is widely acknowledged to be the world’s leading technical conference for the cement industry and the Cement Industry Committee (CIC) has done some neat things, like the concurrent Environmental Workshop, to make this conference [...] |
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