• Traversing the borderless corporate world
  When Samir Cairae graduated with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India in 1988, most of his classmates went to the United States to join the growing number of Hindu-Americans in the technology sector.

• Leading a firm, helping the young
  OXFORD UNIVERSITY graduate Ian Thackwray is a man of many passions. Two of them are to lead a company from good to great and encourage the young to get an education.
  

 

• The cement industry in the eyes of a veteran player
  Cement is one commodity that is highly controversial and is often maligned for its cartel-like operation Now, this local industry is placed in a more precarious situation after the giant foreign players acquired most of the local cement plants.
  Renato C. Sunico, chairman and president of Iligan Cement Corp., one of the five cement plants under the Republic Cement Corp. that are controlled by French firm Lafarge Holdings (Philippines) Inc., comes to the defense of foreign capitalists.

• Filipina makes history in global cement industry
  Filipino Lizza Vicaldo, 39, is the first Asian female cement plant manager in the Lafarge global family. As part of the Lafarge cement team, it becomes even more remarkable that Lizza also happens to be the group’s first female cement plant manager who is not an engineer.




• Rebuilding Albay’s shattered dreams
  Tears stream down her cheeks, but typhoon victim Rebecca Potentado is smiling. After almost one year of painful waiting, she can now help finish building houses not only for her family, but also for many other Bicolanos left homeless when super typhoon Reming ravaged the Bicol region on November 30, 2006.
  
  

• The Concrete Choice
  Whether it’s paving a small side street or building a country’s complex highway system, engineers have major considerations to keep in mind.  Among the most pressing concerns are how they can make roads safer for drivers and stronger for heavy transport,  which material to use to make the roads last longer and,  of course,  how to get the best value for the money they spend.
  


• Competition Drives Product Innovation
  With the threat of imports ever hanging like a Damocles sword and with local demand inching painstakingly slow in a market battered by cost hikes, local cement producers are innovating and creating new ways to reach the precious cement user. Above the din of battle for the market, there is only one sure winner: the consumer.
  

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