We add value to our customers’ businesses by providing products, processes and services that allow them to increase the efficiency and quality of their operations and products We set out our targets for performance improvement to the year ended 31 December 2013 and our strategy for achieving those targets We have high quality businesses with leading market positions In both these industries Cookson is the global world leader, both by size and reputation, and brings its expertise in using ceramic materials to help our longstanding customers manage the flow of molten metal through their plants and processes In foundries, where metal castings are made for use in all types of engineered products, Cookson supplies a wide range of consumable ceramic products that help our customers make better castings more efficiently