PODCAST | Why should building materials producers care about digitization?

Episode 13: Why should building materials producers care about digitization? Jerry Lewis, Executive Partner IBM shares his ideas on the need for digital transformation in building materials industry. Building materials industry could be considered as conservative - materials haven't changed as rapidly as in other industries. But this would not capture the situation accurately. Jerry [...]

Europe’s construction sector faces supply chain squeeze as demand rises

LONDON (ICIS)--Europe’s construction sector is challenged by shortages in supply chains pitched against the rising demand, which has built up as lockdowns ease across the continent. In Germany, producers in the construction sector are struggling with record-breaking bottlenecks in procuring materials, researchers at the Ifo Institute said on Monday. In April 23.9% of companies in [...]

EURO-MAT: Building a strong and sincere relationship with distributors

Gert Rademaker Supporting its suppliers’ innovations and accelerating digitalization to improve its response to end customers, while maintaining a solid human relationship – those are the challenges for EURO-MAT, the construction materials distributor active in 26 European countries and a long-standing customer of Saint-Gobain. We find out more from the company’s CEO, Gert Rademaker. 12 [...]

”Meet the Merchant” digital event: a yearly event from 2022

On May 11th 2021, we had our first digital edition of the ''Meet the Merchant'' event. This virtual event was an alternative for our traditional Forum event which unfortunately couldn't take place this year in the setting we are used to. At the busiest point, there were more than 110 participants in the meeting. Meet [...]

Overview of the EURO-MAT activities 2021

The year 2021 is already well underway and as in 2020 we are forced again to adapt our activities. We looked at what we thought interesting and inspiring subjects for all our partners and started a series of webinars on the use and role of Social Media as their use has proven to be invaluable, [...]