Pakistan: Bestway Cement has appointed Muhammad Danish Khan as its Chief Financial Officer. Khan has worked for Bestway Cement since 2019 first as Head of Budgeting, Treasury and Reporting and then Acting Chief Financial Officer. Before this he worked for Three, the AA, Deloitte and Ernst & Young in the UK. He is a graduate of the Government College University in Lahore and is a chartered accountant.

Philippines: Holcim Philippines has appointed Nicolas George as its president and CEO. He succeeds Horia Adrian, who will assume the role of Head of Decarbonization for Holcim in the Asia, Middle East, and Africa region.

George previously worked as the CEO of Lafarge Algeria from 2021. Before this he was the CEO of Chip Mong Insee Cement in Cambodia. George joined Holcim in 2007 as a Strategy Manager in China and has also worked as the CEO of Myanmar and Uganda for the group. He holds a degree in Industry Management, Innovation, and Performance from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon.

Finland: Tana has appointed Henri Kinnunen as VP, Product Management and Business. He previously worked as the CEO of WOIMA Corporation, a waste-to-energy engineering company , from 2018 to 2024. Prior to this he worked with Wärtsilä from 2007 to 2017 in both Finland and overseas.

Finland-based Tana operates in the waste management sector producing products such as shredders, compactors and separators.

China: Shanshui Cement has appointed Teng Yongjun as its chair.

Teng, aged 54 years, worked as the general manager of the Jinan Public Transportation Group from 2023 to July 2024 and he was a director for the Jinan Financial Investment Fund from 2020 to early 2023. Before this he spent his career working in government roles, mostly in the Huaiyin District of Jinan, Shandong Province. He is a graduate in county and rural economy management from the Shandong Economic Institute and holds a degree in economy management from the Shandong Province People’s Party University.