The shareholders of HeidelbergCement Ukraine (Dnipropetrovsk region), one of the largest producers of cement in Ukraine, removed William Gilmar from the supervisory board of the company at a general meeting on April 20 and appointed Ernest Elito to replace him.

In addition, the shareholders re-appointed the following onto the supervisory board: Wieslaw Adamczyk, Ivan Kozurak, Andrzej Baltserek (chairman), Andreas Kern, Jerzy Los, and Klaus Schwind.

HeidelbergCement Ukraine, which has been operating in Ukraine since 2001, made a loss of UAH189.6m for 2010, Ukrainian News reported. The company operates cement plants in Kryvyi Rih and Dneprodzerzhinsk in the Dnepropetrovsk region, Yenakieve, and Novoamvrosiisk in the Donetsk region.