The Academy's advisory board includes executives from US-based Intel, Procter and Gamble, Genentech, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Microsoft, Fidelity and Wyeth corporations, as well as Europe-based Shell, Roche, TetraPak and Orange, and Mexico-based Cemex.
The BNSF Railway has trackage on the south edge of Hygiene which is a branch line connecting Longmont and the Cemex cement plant at Lyons, Colorado.
At Barbary Plains just outside Edenhall there was formerly a cement block works formerly owned by Hanson plc but now owned by RMC Group, part of Cemex.
Cemex operates an asphalt and building materials depot at the site.
In January 2009 industrial contaminants were found on a part of the proposed route on land formerly owned by Cemex, one of whose plants are next to the road.
Shapbeck Limestone quarry owned by Hanson plc is in the northern part of the parish though the Hardendale Corus limestone quarry and works and the famous Cemex (formerly RMC) Shap Granite quarries and works are within both Shap Rural and Shap parishes.
Angerstein Wharf is the location of a marine construction aggregate and an associated cement facility, operated by the Cemex company, located on the south bank of the Bugsby's Reach of the River Thames in the New Charlton area of London in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
Blackline GPS has now shifted its focus primarily on the industrial & commercial safety and loss prevention industries and has acquired numerous globally prominent clients including Air Liquide, Praxair, Ryder, Waste Management, Inc, Cemex, and BAE Systems.
The town is presently noted for the spectacular cliffs and bluffs above the Pacific, beaches in between cliffs, surfing opportunities, the cement plant run by Cemex (shuttered in January 2010), and the former headquarters of Odwalla, a company that makes fruit juices.
Mlab - The first marketing company focused on the Internet in Brazil, founded in 1996 with a US$ 2 million investment, and sold in 2000 for US$ 36 million to Cemex (in order to be merged with Cemtec to create Neoris, today present in 9 countries in Europe, the US and Latin America and with revenues of over US$ 400 million a year).
Several important international enterprises (particularly from the IT industry) as Vodafone, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, CEMEX, Tiptel and Esprit maintain branches and/or main centers in Ratingen.