Issue introduction

Cement sector consultant Joe Harder introduces the key findings of OneStone Consulting’s new report Covid-19 Impact Analysis CIC 2025, which looks at how the outbreak will alter our sector in the period to 2025.

A look at the measures that cement producers in the US have taken to keep manufacturing during the coronavirus pandemic, plus thoughts on the longer-term effects of the crisis.

The absence of face-to-face contact due to the coronavirus outbreak has changed the way the world works. Office workers are almost entirely working and meeting online at the click of a button. Those in manufacturing are more affected, dealing with factory closures and new rules for hygiene, social distancing, paperwork, deliveries, logistics and more. In the cement sector, both can be helped by the deployment of existing digital solutions and automation...

Factors to look out for to reduce conveyor belt expenditure...