On behalf of the Management Team, another big ‘Thank You’ goes out to everyone for continuing to develop and implement their ideas that will help make Cemex a Safer place to work, with better Quality, greater Efficiency / Effectiveness and Cost Savings.

The following summary gives a brief overview of the ideas from the November 2024 competition:

• Materials Customer Service team – The team in conjunction with the Security and Communications departments have introduced a “Red Flags for Fraud” initiative to defeat cyber attempts to defraud our business. In the last 12 months we have suffered confirmed losses of over £21,000 of materials in addition to a further 14 failed attempts which would have potentially resulted in £100,000’s in losses.
• Willington Quarry – Were looking to “Optimise Crushing and Screening Processes” to resolve grading challenges in Aggregate production and improve the subsequent rework and production downtime. This initiative ultimately resulted in higher-quality output, greater operational efficiency, improved profitability by effectively addressing and controlling the production of fines and coarse particles, and an estimated ROI of £102,000.

Our congratulations go out to Materials Customer Service team who took the top award this month!

As both ideas were deemed to be so close, you can find high-level PDF presentations for each entry by clicking the links below – if you want further information on any of the Ideas, please visit the Ideation platform via the links here:

• Materials Customer Services team – https://cemex.idhall.com/idea/view.php?ide_id=443&vw_ccache=675b054f-1
• Willington Quarry – https://cemex.idhall.com/idea/view.php?ide_id=441&vw_ccache=675b03e0-1

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