Cement Fuels - The Forward Curve

Fuel Price Stability and Options
Fuel typically accounts for about 40 percent of cement company total operating costs. Fluctuations directly impact margins, profitability, and the ongoing success of the enterprise as a whole. Robert Madeira addresses unstable predictors, price stability and options for cement companies in the first of a CemWeek series on cement fuel strategies and management.

The science of predicting future fuel prices is more of an imperfect art than a science. Buyers are kept on their toes in their attempts to forecast future costs, unsure about the best approaches for optimization over time.

Read the rest of the article in the CemWeek Magazine issue 10.