Sustainability: Economy, Environment, Society

As a natural resource company operating today, we must measure our performance by more than the traditional bottom line. At Drake Cement, we judge success by the "triple bottom line" of economic, environmental, and social performance.

Sustainability is fundamentally about business models that do not rely on taking resources from future generations to produce products and profits for today. While responsibility is a basic principle behind this, sustainability is about much more than just reducing our footprint on the environment.

The triple bottom line philosophy supports the right of responsible businesses to exist. It acknowledges that profit is a valid pursuit which, in fact, motivates people to create value with the most efficient use of finite resources. Yet sustainable philosophy also supports the idea that society must live with the impacts of any business. As such, society can play a role in shaping the standards by which those businesses convert their impacts into products and other outcomes that are a net benefit to the communities in which they operate.

At Drake Cement, we believe that, in the 21st Century, those businesses that best demonstrate their value to the people and the world around them should, and will, be rewarded with the best bottom lines.