Germany: HeidelbergCement has appointed Christoph Beumelburg as Director Group Communication & Investor Relations. He succeeds Andreas Schaller, who has left the organisation.

Beumelburg started his career at BASF in 1995. He has since held different management positions both domestically and abroad, including Director Investor Relations USA. In 2010 he moved to the automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler, where he held the position of Senior Vice President Communications, Marketing and Investor Relations. He holds an Industrial Engineering degree from the University of Kaiserslautern.

Poland: Krzysztof Kieres, the general director of Dyckerhoff Polska, has been elected as the new chairman of the Polish Cement Association. The term of office lasts four years and he succeeds Ernest Jelito, the president of Górażdże Cement, in the role.

Kieres, aged 64 years, is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Lodz. He holds experience with various construction companies, including Germany’s Bilfinger. He has worked for Dyckerhoff, part of Italy’s Buzzi Unicem, for 20 years as a financial director and the general director.

The association has also elected Dariusz Gawlak, the president of the board of the Warta Cement, as its vice chairman. Other new members of the board include: Włodzimierz Chołu, Cemex Polska; Xavier Guesnu, Lafarge Cement; Janusz Miłucha, Grupa Ożarów; and Andrzej Reclik, Górażdże Cement. The association has also accepted Andrzej Ptak as an honoury member.

Russia: Alexander Sapronov has been appointed as the senior vice president of Eurocement. His responsibilities include production, sales and purchases, transport and logistics, strategy and marketing, industrial safety and capital construction. Sapronov has held a variety of senior positions are large industrial companies in Russia, including Freight One, Novolipetsk Steel, Rosneft and others.

UK: Aggregate Industries has appointed Simon Marriott as the managing director of its Concrete Products division. He has also been promoted to the executive committee of the company as part of a strategic decision to raise the profile of the division. The new role will give him responsibility for all hard landscaping aspects of the business including Charcon, Bradstone, Masterblock, Charcon Construction Solutions and Simply Paving. He will also lead the marketing communications function.

Marriott started his career as a plant manager before moving to Bardon Aggregates in 1996. When it merged with Camas to become Aggregate Industries, he become general manager of the Express Asphalt division and later became director of the mainstream asphalt division’s southern region. He then ran Bardon Concrete and Aggregate Industries’ cement importing function, before becoming director of Concrete Products in late 2015.