Cement News tagged under: CEO
Holcim Philippines appoints COO01 September 2016, Published under Cement NewsHolcim Philippines announced Thursday that its board has appointed Sapna Sood as Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective 1 November 2016. Ms Sood previously acted as Group Head of Health and Safety at LafargeHolcim and held the position of Head of Helium in the Asia-Pacific region for Linde Group. The appointment comes as part of the preparations for CEO Eduardo Sahagun’s retirement on 19 April 2017. Mr Sahagun will relinquish his duties as CEO in November, but remain acting President un... |
Canada: McInnis Cement CEO quits after new plant cost overruns05 August 2016, Published under Cement NewsThe chief executive officer of McInnis Cement, Christian Gagnon, has stepped down after it emerged that the cost of constructing the company’s new 2.2Mta Port-Daniel integrated plant had gone over budget by CAD450m (US$346m). McInnis’s investment was partly financed by government bodies, including Quebecois provincial authorities and also included a CAD360m (US$277m) loan from the National Bank of Canada. According to Radio-Canada, when news of the spiralling costs of the project first... |
Fabrizio Donegá new CEO of Cementos Moctezuma10 June 2016, Published under Cement NewsFabrizio Donegá has been appointed as new CEO of Cementos Montezuma following the retirement of Pedro Carranza Andersen after 21 years of service with the company. The appointment was formally approved by the Board of the Cementos Molins subsidiary on 3 October 2016. Mr Donegá has extensive experience in the cement industry in key positions at Ciments du Maroc, Vassiliko Cement Works, Shymkentcement and Italcementi. |
Brazil and beyond02 September 2015, Published under Cement NewsRecent years have seen the internationalisation of Brazil’s foremost cement company as Votorantim Cimentos expanded through organic growth and well-planned acquisitions. Maintaining a leadership position in Brazil and now with a footprint across distinct regions around the globe, Votorantim Cimentos’ CEO, Walter Dissinger, talks ICR through this period of dynamic growth, market perspectives and the next phase of development. Walter Dissinger, CEO of Votorantim Cimentos ... |
Antoine Ducleax new Lafarge Central Europe CEO29 June 2015, Published under Cement NewsAntoine Duclaux is the new CEO of Lafarge Central Europe and heads up the future country cluster of Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. Until recently, he was Senior Vice President Strategy at Lafarge’s headquarters following earlier appointments as Managing Director at Lafarge Emirates Cement, Dubai, and Lafarge Cementos, Honduras. He has been part of the Lafarge team since 2002, when he started as Vice President of Corporate Audit. |
USA: New CEO at Giant Cement21 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsJose A Llontop has been named as the new president and CEO of Summerville-based Giant Cement Holding Inc (GCHI), a subsidiary of Madrid-based Cementos Portland Valderrivas. Mr Llontop will oversee the company’s American operations at plants in Alabama, Maine, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. He previously held senior level positions at Cemex. “I am looking forward to returning GCHI to profitability through excellent customer service and product innovation, an efficient cost structure leve... |
Russia: New CEO at Zhigulevskie Stroymaterialy JSC21 August 2012, Published under Cement NewsNikolay Skornyakov has been appointed CEO of Zhigulevskie Stroymaterialy JSC which is part of the Eurocement group Holding. Until now, Nikolay Skornyakov was Zhigulevskie Stroymaterialy's technical director.Nikolay Nikolayevich Skornyakov was born in 1950 in Ulyanovsk. In 1980 hegraduated from Belgorod State Technological Institute of Construction Materials majoringin chemical technology binders. Nikolay Skornyakov has been working in the cementindustry for about 40 years. He began his pro... |