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France: Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies has appointed Stéphanie Bondoux as its director of certification and accreditation. In her new role, Bondoux will help the company to comply with France’s technical norms and standard practices. In order to ensure that it continues to meet the highest industry standards, she will assess the performance, the sustainability of solutions and the safety of the various applications while fostering Hoffmann Green Cement Technologies’s policy of innovation. This will involve close collaboration with both the producer’s testing segment and accreditation bodies.

Bondoux was previously head of accreditations and regulatory frameworks for Liechtenstein-based building materials producer Hilti's Western Europe business, having begun her career as a fastening product manager there. She holds a master's degree in marketing from Sorbonne University, Paris.

Saudi Arabia: Mansour Balghonaim has taken a seat on the board of Saudi Cement, effective retroactively from 30 June 2021. Blaghonaim has 16 years’ experience in banking and is head of business development wholesale banking at Gulf International Bank. He acquired his degree in finance from King Saud University, Riyadh.

India: Shree Cement has appointed Shrinath Savoor as its chief sustainability officer. Savoor trained at the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He later worked for Holtec before becoming the Joint President for Strategy and Business Development at Shree Cement in 2009.

US: Solidia Technologies has appointed Russell Hill as its chief technology officer. He succeeds Nicholas DeCristofaro, who will retire in September 2021.

Hill joins Solidia after 25 years working for Boral, most recently as Group Chief Innovation Officer. In 2012, he led the discovery and development of a new series of ‘green’ products that opened new market segments and geography to the building materials producer. Hill holds a doctorate in chemistry from the University of North Texas and is named as an inventor on 56 patents, consisting of over 20 distinct families. He is a member of the American Concrete Institute, ASTM, the American Chemical Society and Alpha Chi Sigma.

Solidia Technologies produces reduced-CO₂ concrete with lower-energy cement and water-free CO₂ curing.

US: Pozzolan cement producer Green Cement has appointed Grant Quasha as its chief executive officer (CEO). He succeeds John T Preston, who will remain as chairman of the board. Quasha will be based in Texas, where the company has its headquarters and existing production facilities. He will also be joining the company's board of directors.

Quasha previously worked as the regional chief investment officer of GFG Alliance. Before this he was the CEO and managing director of Paringa Resources, a mining company, and the chief commercial officer of Wolverine Fuels, a producer of bituminous coal. He also worked as the North American Manager of Corporate and Structured Finance at Trafigura AG, as an investment banker in JPMorgan's New York mining and metals division and has worked on the board of directors of the National Mining Association. Quasha holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.

Green Cement produces cements made using pozzolonic materials including its PozzoSlag product. It sold over 2Mt of cement in 2020.