
Investing in interns: part 1
Betsy Lamb and Stephen J. Coppinger, CalPortland Company, USA, explain how investing in intern programmes can help the industry to attract and retain a new generation of top talent.
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Betsy Lamb and Stephen J. Coppinger, CalPortland Company, USA, explain how investing in intern programmes can help the industry to attract and retain a new generation of top talent.

Following a mediation session, McInnis Cement, the CQDE, the CREGIM and Nature Québec have agreed to the formation of an Environmental Committee that will monitor the environmental activities of the Port-Daniel-Gascons plant in Gaspé.

India’s cement industry will see increased costs going forward, as freight rate hikes and higher taxes take hold.

According to DANE, grey cement dispatches increased by 6.1% y/y in February, with production up 13.3%.

Dr Christoph Seifert has been appointed as Technical Managing Director at SCHADE Lagertechnik, responsible for engineering, project management and purchasing.

Dalmia Cement has reported the start of trial cement production at its new greenfield plant in Karnataka.

China Shanshui Cement Group reported a 5.7% decrease in revenue, at RMB15 596 million (~US$2516 million).

Graham Sprigg, Managing Director of IMS Consulting and a Member of the Cement Sustainability Initiative’s Communications Task Force, outlines the organisation’s latest guidance for biodiversity management in the cement and quarrying industries.

World Cement talks to Rafael Menéndez-Abascal, Health & Safety Manager at Lafarge Spain, about the continuous path to health and safety excellence, in this abridged article from the April 2015 issue.

Entries for the bauma Innovation Award will be accepted from 7 April 2015. The awards are open to exhibitors, research institutes, companies and members of leading German construction industry associations.

Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has received an order from the cement division of Rashed Al-Rashed & Sons Group in Saudi Arabia.

Buzzi Unicem ended the year with a 4.8% improvement in EBITDA, despite the continued recession in Italy and a slowdown in Europe and Asia in the second half of the year.