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US: Cementos Argos has appointed Bill Wagner as the vice president of its US operations. Wagner, a US national, is a graduate of Georgia Southern University. He holds over 35 years of industry experience and is on the board of directors of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association. He joined Cementos Argos in 2014 and worked as the head of its US concrete business.

Thailand: Siam Cement Group has appointed Thammasak Sethaudom as its Vice President-Finance & Investment. He succeeds Chaovalit Ekabut. The appointment will take affect from 1 September 2018.

US: Ametek Brookfield has appointed Hitesh Shah as Global Vice President Sales. He holds over 25 years’ experience in sales and executive positions in North America, India, the Middle East and Asia. He has worked for General Electric, Meggitt Sensing Systems and most recently served as Global Sales Director with Novanta. Hitesh has a graduate degree in Mechanical Engineering. He also served on the engineering faculty at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India.

Cameroon: Benoît Galichet has been appointed as the director general of Cimencam. He succeeds Pierre Damnon, according to the Agence de Presse Africaine. Galichet, a French national, is aged 47 years. He will oversee the commissioning of the cement producer’s new cement grinding plant at Nomayo and the continued promotion of the company’s ‘Multi-X’ cement product.

LafargeHolcim holds a 55% stake in Cimencam, the government holds a 43% stake and employees hold the remaining 2% share.

Germany: Bernd Scheubel retired from Refratechnik at the start of May 2018.

He started his career at the technical centre of Krupp Polysius (TKIS) in New Beckum. After five years working there as a mineralogist he joined Refratechnik in 1987, starting as a sales manager for South America. In 1998 he was appointed a member of executive management of Refratechnik Cement in Goettingen. In 2003 Scheubel joined the management board of Refratechnik Holding at Ismaning near Munich, the position he held until he retired.

The main focus of his work was the expansion of the international refractory business of Refratechnik in the Americas and East Asia, mainly in China. In addition he held positions at the executive boards of the World Refractory Association and the European Refractory Association.