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New president of Saint-Gobain's North American construction materials division

21 October 2022, Published under Cement News

Following the acquisition of GCP Applied Technologies by Saint-Gobain, GCP’s Specialty Construction Chemicals (SCC) segment will integrate with Chryso within the new Construction Chemicals Business Unit, part of the High-Performance Solutions division of Saint-Gobain.   Steve Williams, formerly president of Chryso North America, has been appointed president of the Construction Chemicals Business Unit for North America and will run the combined North American business.  As part of the ...

Titan appoints new Group Executive Committee Chairman

21 October 2022, Published under Cement News

Marcel Cobuz has been appointed  the new chairman of Titan’s Group Executive Committee.   “As I take leadership of Titan Group , I would like to thank Dimitri Papalexopoulos for the excellent transition and look forward to working with him as Chair of the Board of Directors,” said Marcel Cobuz. “Big thanks to all my new colleagues around the world for making me feel at home. Together, we will continue the great work started in digitising and decarbonising the business and seize new op...

ENVEA Global appoints new CEO

07 October 2022, Published under Cement News

ENVEA Global, ambient, emissions monitoring and proces system manufacturer, has appointed Trevor Sands as its new CEO. Trevor has extensive senior leadership experience in global industrial businesses. He was most recently Global President of Servomex Group, the global expert in gas analysis.    Prior to this he ran the Control Valves business for IMI plc, he was Chief Executive of Cosalt plc and also spent 13 years with Emerson, including leading the Fisher Valves European business and ...

Sagar Cements welcomes new chairman

27 September 2022, Published under Cement News

India's Sagar Cements Ltd (SCL) has appointed Kalidindi Venkata Vishnu Raju as chairman, effective from 24 September 2022. He succeeds K Thanu Pillai. Mr Vishnu Raju is also on the board of Anjani Vishnu Allied Services as a whole-time director and was also previously on the board of Anjani Portland cement as chairman and managing director from 1999-2014. SCL currently has an installed production capacity of 8.25Mta.

Howden appoints market director for carbon capture

13 September 2022, Published under Cement News

Howden has appointed Mark Courtney as global market director of carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS). In his new role, Mr Courtney will provide leadership and vision to develop Howden’s CCUS offering, developing and managing key partnerships to support pilot and commercial CCUS projects. The prime focus will be enabling customers’ vital processes using the company’s full product range, customised to specific project requirements.  Howden’s CCUS offering will support the cement se...

Suez Cement Group appoints new CEO

28 March 2022, Published under Cement News

Effective 1 May, José Maria Magrina, who led the Suez Cement Group of Companies as CEO for the last six years, will leave the company and start a new position with HeidelbergCement Trading as CEO.     Mr Magrina has vast international experience in various executive roles. His professional career started at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a management consultant. Two years later, he joined Deloitte in a similar position where he focused on supply chain optimisation, market research and strat...

FLO2R is strengthening its product focus for the cement industry

23 March 2022, Published under Cement News

Kim Koldsø has joined the FLO2R team. Mr Koldsø brings on more than 20 years of specialised gas analysis product and process knowledge and hands-on experience from the cement industry, and therefore is the perfect addition to its organisation and pursuit of better gas analysis solutions, according to the company. FLO2R is deeply engaged in developing new and more powerful process gas analysis solutions to the cement industry. Solutions which will make the cement industry capable of ha...

Fernando Libonati to lead Business Development at FCT

22 February 2022, Published under Cement News

Fernando Libonati has been appointed as the Head of Business Development for FCT within the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions. Mr Libonati commenced in this role in January 2022. With more than 21 years of technical sales experience for prominent companies including Bühler, Aumund and Thermo Fisher Scientific, he has experience across a variety of global markets from having lived and worked in Australia, Hong Kong, China, Germany and Brazil. Fernando holds a Mechanical Engineer...

Dr Sibo 'Steven' Yan appointed as general manager of KHD Beijing

25 January 2022, Published under Cement News

Dr Sibo 'Steven'  Yan has been appointed as general manager of KHD's Chinese unit KHD Humboldt Wedag Machinery Equipment (Beijing) Co Ltd. Dr Yan holds a PhD from Beijing University of Technology and brings along an impressive background of experience and knowledge in industrial cement plant construction. During his term as Vice President at Humboldt Wedag Inc he has contributed largely to winning and successfully executing the Mitchell project in the USA. The Chinese market is expected...

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Ltd appoint new CEO

27 December 2021, Published under Cement News

Lafarge Cement Zimbabwe Ltd (Holcim group) has appointed Mr Geoffrey Ndugwa as the new CEO. Prior to his appointment, Mr Ndugwa was the CEO of Lafarge Malawi between December 2019-November 2021. He has 17 years of cement industry experience working in various capacities across Africa, including Director for Bamburi Group in Kenya, General Manager of Innovation and Marketing for Lafarge WAPCO Nigeria Plc, General Manager of Bamburi Special Projects Ltd in Kenya, Head of Business Support at...