As governments around the world invest in power infrastructure, competition has become rife within this specialist construction sector. Mr V. Balasubramanian talks to Andrew Pelis about the strategy that has helped KEC International Ltd to make the most of the opportunity.

Strategic clarity is the key to unlocking the treasures of South Africa’s shallow gold resources for the country’s most dynamic recent market entrant. Neal Froneman, CEO of Gold One International (Africa), talks to Jayne Flannery.

The global economic downturn has meant opportunity for AMEC Minproc to expand its activities in Africa, as Ruari McCallion learns from Colin Kubank.

Gifford’s Ice Cream, central Maine’s third-generation family ice cream business, has been acclaimed “Grade A & Ice Cream Grand Champion” at the 2010 World Dairy Expo. Gifford’s also earned the title of “World’s Best Chocolate” for the third time.

The only international judging contest of its kind, the World Dairy Expo is considered the industry’s most important dairy competition. The awards will be presented to winners at this year’s five-day Expo in Madison, to take place September 28 – October 2.

Westlake Chemical Corporation announced today it is proceeding with the delayed construction of a new chlor-alkali plant to be located at its vinyls manufacturing complex in Geismar, Louisiana. The new unit is expected to double the company’s production from250,000 electrochemical units (ECUs) annually, to 520,000 ECUs.

Westlake, headquartered in Houston, Texas, manufactures and supplies petrochemicals, polymers and fabricated products including ethylene, polyethylene, styrene, propylene, caustic, VCM, PVC and PVC pipe, windows and fence.

UK oil and gas explorer EnCore Oil has announced a new North Sea oil find at its Cladhan field.

Cladhan is located 225 miles north-east of Aberdeen, in 536 feet water depth. It is thought that the field may hold reserves of between 100 million and 200 million barrels.

The Cladhan announcement follows the discovery of the 300 million barrel Catcher field, which was identified in June and in which EnCore also has a stake.

EnCore, which started drilling at the Cladhan site in August, will now drill horizontally to determine the size of the field.

Many corporations like to think they have best practice processes already in place. Richard Ilsley of Synogis highlights the top 10 fundamental issues that must be considered with respect to any best practice process.

It is hard to find an organisation that is not using the term ‘best practice’ somewhere within its sales operation. It seems that no matter where you go, someone is talking about it and everyone wants it. But what is it and how do we know when we have it?

What businesses actually want from their sales and operational planning, says Andrew Kinder of Infor, is the ability to explore ‘what if’ scenarios across the business quickly and accurately.

Driven by base realignments, lease considerations and homeland security concerns, a large-scale courtroom and office project at AndrewsAir Force Base was placed on the fastest of fast tracks. Keith Regan learns how the project team uses a design-build approach and constant communication to keep the project on its aggressive schedule.

The US private sector homeland security market is forecast to rise to over $11 billion by 2014, according to research by Homeland Security Research Corporation.

In its report US Private Sector Homeland Security Market - 2010-2014, the organization predicts that the US private sector HLS market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 9.1 percent from $7.7 billion in 2010 to $11.2 billion by 2014.