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Maruti Srivastava
Area Manager, Mumbai
Lafarge Agreggates & Concrete, India
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“My name is Maruti Srivastava, I’ve worked for Lafarge India for now almost one and a half years. I’m the area manager for Mumbai, taking care of 10 plants right now. I’m responsible for making it a safe business and give as much profitability as possible.”
“Lafarge is one company who cares about people, you know it is about people development, there is so much training which is happening in the company. They train you on new products, development on concrete, there has been technological breakthroughs within Lafarge on concrete development so all this you know, motivates me.”
“My number one priority is safety, if I go to any of my plants, we often go to every plant, we see that people are wearing all necessary PPEs, which is the Personal Protective Equipment: hard hat, reflective jacket, vest, so when you go into an environment where people are wearing all safety equipment, you feel you know, safe, you feel that the company cares for you.”
“In Lafarge innovation plays a very important role. We are developing new products and the customer gets benefits from, for example Artevia®, Agilia®, They are about to demonstrate capabilities in terms of innovation to customers.”
“We’re growing very fast. We’re growing at a compounded rate of around 35% year on year in the last 3 years. This year the economy is growing by 8 or 9% in India but we hope to grow by 30 to 40% because we are setting up a lot of new plants so it’s going to be a good year. So that creates a difference between us and the rest of the competition.”
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