ISSUE 51INTRODUCTION

Dear valued readers,

It gives me great pleasure to bring you Issue 51 of Executive Insight Magazine. In this edition, we focus heavily on the importance of sustainability goals across a number of core industry sectors, from packaging, through to aviation and mining. 2030 is a core goal for country and industry ESG visions and the subsequent decade will be crucial in terms of climate change and how worlds leading economies, industries and organisaitons can reform carbon output and reduce these emissions by investing in new technologies, greener visions and most importantly, thinking of our future generations and leaving a better planet for them and not worse than when we entered it. Scientists have been very clear that unless change happens now, it could very well be too late leading into the 22nd century. As the worlds leading GDP contributors have gone through their development and multiple industry revolutions, we now have a host of emerging countries who look to follow in their footsteps. We must work together and ensure that the same carbon outputs in terms of required energy, mainly from fossil fuels isn’t repeated for the next 40-50 years. As G8 countries move forward in the development of greener energy, what happens to the planet if emerging nations don’t follow suit. These are key topics that all industries and countries must work together on and although business is a competitive marketplace where everyone is vying for that next customer order, together we need to share sustainability innovations to help the planet moving forward.

Our cover piece for Issue 51 is with Mark Lapping, CEO of Aquapak. We talk to Mark about their new products, mainly being the innovative Hydropol brand, their continued partnerships with industry leading alliances and how they continue to operate with industry best practices across the sector to ensure a global stance on packaging manufacturing sustainability.

We also speak Karl Farrow, MD at CeraPhi Energy, who are a business to watch now and for the future. They are developing Geothermal energy solutions which will enhance the UK’s renewable energy sector. With a core team who are driving this organization forward, we feel that CeraPhi are well worth any investors interest, it’s a real pleasure for us to support and promote a business that is very close to our operational headquarters in the UK.

Other important business operations and developments covered in this edition are with Steppe Gold and their CEO Mr. Aneel Waraich, we speak to them about their continued production growth at their ATO mine in Mongolia and their aspirations for 2023.

Leading forward from here we speak to Errol Smart who is taking Orion Minerals to the next operational level throughout the year ahead, with an incredible portfolio of operations across the African region, further investments recently placed into the business will really ensure they hit their roadmap for the next 12 months ahead.

The Executive Insight team and I, really hope you enjoy reading through Issue 51 and we look forward to bringing Issue 52 to your attention soon.

Sincere best wishes,

Jon Bradley Head of Editorial Content

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