{"id":47828,"date":"2021-09-17T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/uncategorized\/how-to-stay-competitive-within-the-industry"},"modified":"2024-05-07T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T19:44:23","slug":"how-to-stay-competitive-within-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/the-network\/general-interest\/how-to-stay-competitive-within-the-industry","title":{"rendered":"How to stay competitive within the industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Each month, <em>The&nbsp;Network<\/em>&nbsp;readers can submit their questions about the history, projects, community involvement, challenges or any other topic related to the AGF Group.<\/p>\n<p>Send your questions to:&nbsp;communication@agfgroup.com<\/p>\n<p>Here the question of the month:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: With the construction industry evolving at a rapid pace, is there a risk of rebar being replaced or substituted with another product that may be more productive and cost effective? If so, what are we doing in terms of research and development to stay competitive within the industry and market?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re right, there are different threats, which to lesser degrees, can affect the future of the rebar specialty as we know it now.<\/p>\n<p>First, the increasingly common use of stainless steel, galvanized steel, fiberglass, etc. This is not a threat since we are already at the forefront of all these methods and often their prohibitive cost will prevent very wide use.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the development of high-performance concrete may also reduce somewhat the quantities of steel required, but certainly not completely eliminate its use; therefore, a relatively small negative impact.<\/p>\n<p>The main factor in the future that will impact the quantities of steel used in construction is the risk of replacing reinforced concrete with eco-responsible materials. Although reinforcing steel is a recycled material, concrete is a problem. This is why there is currently a lot of research on &ldquo;low carbon&rdquo; or &ldquo;no carbon&rdquo; cements.<\/p>\n<p>It is for all these reasons that AGF has set up a technology watch post (Katherina Beck is our expert). We are participating with the Universit&eacute; de Moncton in new studies on the use of fiberglass. Basically, we stay abreast of global trends and we fully intend to stay competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Katherina Beck &#8211; Director, Business Intelligence and Technology Watch, for preparing this succinct answer to this very relevant question.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Bandeau_version_espanola-Copy-1-54.png\" style=\"height:40px; width:475px\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Cada mes, los lectores de La Red pueden enviarme sus preguntas sobre la historia, los proyectos, la implicaci&oacute;n social, los desaf&iacute;os o cualquier otro tema relacionado con Grupo AGF.<\/p>\n<p>No dude en enviarme sus preguntas a:&nbsp;communication@agfgroup.com<\/p>\n<p>Encontre aqu&iacute; la pregunta del mes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>P:&nbsp;Mi pregunta es si con la r&aacute;pida evoluci&oacute;n de industria de la construcci&oacute;n &iquest;existe el riesgo de que las barras de refuerzo sean reemplazadas o sustituidas por otro producto que pudiese ser m&aacute;s productivo y rentable? Y, de ser as&iacute;, &iquest;qu&eacute; acciones realizamos en t&eacute;rminos de investigaci&oacute;n y desarrollo para permanecer competitivos en la industria y en el mercado?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tiene raz&oacute;n, existen diferentes riesgos que, a menor grado, pueden afectar el futuro de la especialidad del acero de refuerzo como la conocemos actualmente.<\/p>\n<p>Para empezar, est&aacute; la utilizaci&oacute;n cada vez m&aacute;s com&uacute;n del acero inoxidable, del galvanizado, de la fibra de vidrio, etc. Esto no es un riesgo puesto que ya estamos al frente de todos estos procedimientos y con frecuencia su elevado costo impide un amplio uso.<\/p>\n<p>Posteriormente, el desarrollo de hormigones de alto desempe&ntilde;o puede tambi&eacute;n reducir un poco las cantidades de acero requeridas, pero ciertamente no podr&aacute; eliminar completamente su uso. Por lo tanto, el impacto negativo es relativamente bajo.<\/p>\n<p>Finalmente, el principal factor que en el futuro va a tener un impacto en las cantidades de acero utilizadas en el &aacute;rea de la construcci&oacute;n es el riesgo del reemplazo del hormig&oacute;n reforzado por materiales ecol&oacute;gicamente responsables. Aunque el acero de refuerzo es un material reciclado, el hormig&oacute;n, por su parte, plantea problemas. Es por esta raz&oacute;n que actualmente se est&aacute;n realizando muchas investigaciones sobre cementos sin carbono o con bajas emisiones de carbono.<\/p>\n<p>Todas estas razones hicieron que AGF creara un puesto de investigaci&oacute;n tecnol&oacute;gica (Katherina Beck es nuestra experta). Participamos con la Universidad de Moncton en nuevos estudios sobre la utilizaci&oacute;n de la fibra de vidrio. En resumen, permanecemos en la b&uacute;squeda de las tendencias mundiales y tenemos la firme intenci&oacute;n de continuar siendo competitivos.<\/p>\n<p>Le agradezco a Katherina Beck, Directora, Inteligencia de negocios e investigaci&oacute;n tecnol&oacute;gica, por haber preparado esta respuesta concisa a una pregunta muy pertinente.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, The&nbsp;Network&nbsp;readers can submit their questions about the history, projects, community involvement, challenges or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59671,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47828\/revisions\/59671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeagf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}