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R&D Magazine published their annual study conducted with Battelle, providing an outlook for the major Research and Development metrics for the coming year. The report is excellent and filled with solid information and well founded projections. Parts of the report are focused on who will lead R&D spending for the next year. While it’s no surprise [...] 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. [...] |
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