The old saying goes that “necessity is the mother of invention” and recent years have given executives across the cement sector plenty of opportunities to be inventive!
The global pandemic that we are currently living through has us considering what commentators call a Black Swan event and how the cement sector manages, reacts and adapts to this type of development. The events of the last month (and the coming months) may have long-term impacts on the sector, necessitating new working practices, new technology to be implemented and new thinking in the way businesses operate. It may be that changes already being driven by increased digitalisation and environmental awareness across the sector are accelerated – or we may see completely new practices and business structures emerge.