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Remi Le Grand appointed as Regional Sales Director for Max-AI for Bulk Handling Systems
Written by Global Cement staff
24 July 2019
Netherlands: Bulk Handling Systems (BHS) has appointed Remi Le Grand as Regional Sales Director for Max-AI. He will be responsible for the product sales team and business development in Europe. Previously, Le Grand spent six years in sales with BHS-subsidiary Nihot Recycling Technology based in Amsterdam.
Michael Wilson elected as director of Vulcan Materials
Written by Global Cement staff
17 July 2019
US: Vulcan Materials has elected Michael Wilson to its board of directors. He will serve on the Audit and Safety, Health and Environmental Affairs Committees of the construction aggregates producer. Wilson is the president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Ingevity Corporation and a member of Ingevity's board of directors. Ingevity is a global supplier of specialty chemicals, carbon materials and engineered polymers. With the addition of Wilson, Vulcan's 10-member board consists of nine independent directors.
Tamer Saka appointed as president of Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association
Written by Global Cement staff
10 July 2019
Turkey: The Turkish Cement Manufacturers' Association (TÇMB) has appointed Tamer Saka as its president. He has been the president of Sabancı Holding Cement Group since early 2018.
Saka holds a doctorate from the School of Business at Istanbul University. He worked as the Manager and Senior Manager of Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young companies, respectively, and he was in charge of Risk Management Consulting Services and then he joined Sabancı Holding family in 2004 as the Risk Management Director. He served as the Executive Director responsible for business development operations of nearly 20 countries, including Turkey, at Willis London in 2010 and 2011. In August 2011, he was appointed as the Strategy and Business Development Coordinator of Kibar Holding and then he was appointed as the Head of Automotive and Corporate Functions Group in May 2012 and as the Kibar Holding Board Member. Tamer Saka became the CEO of Kibar Holding in 2014.
Basant Kumar Birla dies in Mumbai
Written by Global Cement staff
04 July 2019
India: Basant Kumar Birla, chairman of BK Birla Group, has died at the age of 98 in Mumbai. He is survived by his grandson Kumar Mangalam Birla, the head of Aditya Birla Group, the owner of UltraTech Cement, amongst many other family members, according to the Times of India.
Part of the influential Birla family of industrialists, Basant Kumar Birla originally started working at Kesoram Industries before turning the business into a conglomerate with concerns in cement, engineering, medium-density fibreboards, pulp and paper, rayon, shipping, tyres, tea, chemicals and other sectors. BK Birla Group reported a turnover of US$2.4bn in the 2018 – 2019 financial year. At present the group now comprises five major companies - Kesoram Industries, Century Textiles & Industries, Century Enka, Mangalam Cement and ECE Industries - and several smaller subsidiaries.
Image of Basant Kumar Birla by Biswarup Ganguly CC BY 3.0
Roland van Wijnen appointed as chief executive officer of PPC
Written by Global Cement staff
03 July 2019
South Africa: PPC has appointed Roland van Wijnen as its chief executive officer (CEO). He succeeds Johan Claassen, who announced his retirement in November 2018. Van Wijnen has signed a four-year contract and is expected to take up the position as soon as he secures a work permit.
Van Wijnen has worked for Holcim and LafargeHolcim for 17 years in various leadership positions across the group including the CEO of Holcim Philippines. He also worked in South Africa for the business before it left the territory. He is an Industrial Engineering graduate from the University of Twente in the Netherlands.