About Us

Productive Industries is a new type of consultancy providing Productivity Improvement Services to the Construction Materials Industry

Helping front line teams understand the basic principles of operational control and improvement in order to put themselves in the driving seat when determining how their part of the business remains successful, secure and sustainable through the peaks and troughs of changing market conditions.

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Culture

Collaborative And Ambitious

We cultivate an environment of openness where people enjoy working together. We set meaningful goals and celebrate success whenever it happens.
We have extensive experience of delivering Brilliant Basics into the industry we serve and have strong evidence of it’s effectiveness in returning sustainable value.

Experience On The Ground

The Productive Industries team have worked with some of the UK’s best known manufacturers and suppliers of Building Materials, covering all categories of the mineral production sector:
Aggregates
Aggregates
Aggricultural lime
Aggricultural Lime
Asphalt
Asphalt
Cement
Cement
Dimension stone
Dimension Stone
Industrial clays
Industrial Clays
Industrial Lime
Marine
Marine
Mortar
Pre-cast concrete
Pre-Cast Concrete
Ready-mix concrete
Ready-Mix Concrete
Silica sand
Silica Sand
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The Expertise We Provide

We exist to help our client organisations better understand how to strategically implement effective cost optimisations through the deployment of ‘Brilliant Basics’ across their business in order to achieve organisational culture change that drives ‘people powered’, costumer centric operational improvement.

We are known for our hands on, front line first approach to building high performing teams through the implementation of ‘Brilliant Basics’.

We are known both domestically and internationally for supporting major clients through the implementation of their strategic operational excellence objectives.

Most of our clients feedback to us that after scaling the promotion ladder there’s a realisation that problem’s don’t go away with seniority ….. They only get more complicated. The problems they face, the circumstances they find themselves in can sometimes be the product of flawed mindset and mistakes that have been made in the past.

The undoing of this (especially in an operational context) requires a re-evaluation of how we do things. There’s a ‘spark to start’ required that involves strong leadership and qualified expertise.

Due to our leadership position within the market place along with our proven approaches we are the obvious solution to operational improvement especially when there are constraints relating to ‘bandwidth’ and experience within the organisation.

We promise to close the productivity gap in your organisation. Whether it be cost, reliability, quality or safety we’ll do it quicker, with greater ease, you’ll experience fewer pitfalls and your opportunity cost recovery will be substantially greater when compared to the time, energy and money lost if you choose to work on your own.

 
  • We have experience of working with highly respected Senior Leaders in the industry supporting the developed of strategies that take business-level objectives through to tangible working approaches that deliver substantial ‘front line’ operational improvement.
  • We have delivered significant uplifts in operational efficiencies within both asphalt and readymix operations.
  • We have supported the solving of complex problems within Marine and Wharf operations.
  • We have extensive experience of facilitating throughput improvement within block manufacture plants.
  • We have extensive front line operational improvement experience within Quarrying and Mining Operations.

“We are committed to your success”

Sean Kelly – Senior Partner