Recent years have seen growth in the take-up of benchmarking services provided by Whitehopleman. Some cement plants have participated every year since the service was launched 19 years ago. Benchmarking reports have become part of the cement producers’ annual reporting and provide an opportunity to learn from the best.

UK-based Whitehopleman has recently been retained to undertake country-wide cement factory performance benchmarking on behalf of cement industry associations. Moreover, some cement companies have retained Whitehopleman to conduct company-wide benchmarking. Therefore, now seems a good time to review what has changed and the lessons learnt from cement factory benchmarking.