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Bosnia & Herzegovina: Austria’s Asamer Baustoffe has made a bid for the remaining share of Fabrika Cementa Lukavac. At present it owns 99% of the cement producer. Fabrika Cementa Lukavac operates 0.8Mt/yr integrated plant at Lukavac.

Austria: Christoph Stotter has been appointed as the head of Development & Quality Assurance at w+p Zement. He succeeds Walter Steinwender, who had been working at the Wietersdorf plant since 2008. Stotter studied at the Montanuniversität in Leoben and has since gained experience in process engineering, research and development and product management.

Austria/Germany/Italy: The European Cement Research Academy (ECRA) has launched its oxyfuel carbon capture pilot projects at HeidelbergCement’s Colleferro plant in Italy and LafargeHolcim’s Retznei plant in Austria. The two locations were chosen form a shortlist of five sites. The pilots will test oxyfuel technology on an industrial scale. The test phase of the research is expected to cost Euro80m and the cement industry has contributed Euro25m towards this. ‘Substantial’ funding from European or national research schemes is being sought.

“The technical feasibility of oxyfuel technology can only be proven in real-scale application, but we have sufficient information from our research to believe that we will obtain a positive result after the trials” said Daniel Gauthier, chairman of ECRA.

Austria: Lindner has appointed four new members of its international sales team to cover the Americas and Asia. Christopher Howard has become the general manager for Lindner America covering the shredder manufacturer’s North American operations. Jeff Wolfe has become the sales manager for Lindner America’s Waste Division. Frederico Hartmann has responsibility for the company’s plastics division in Latin America. Gerhard Gamper becomes a sales manger in the Waste Division for Asia.

Austria: Peter Oswald has been appointed as the next chief executive officer (CEO) of Mondi Group. The current CEO, David Hathorn, will retire from the role on 11 May 2017 following the group’s annual general meeting whereupon Oswald will succeed him. Subsequently Hathorn will continue to work for Mondi in an executive capacity until his retirement in February 2018.

Oswald graduated in law from the University of Vienna and in business administration from WU-Vienna Business School. He began his career with Deutsche Bank and automotive company KTM. He joined the Frantschach Group in 1992 as the head of internal audit, later becoming corporate controller. After serving as chief executive of its bag and flexibles business from 1995 to 2001, he was appointed chief executive of Mondi Packaging Europe in 2002, leading its subsequent integration with Frantschach into the new Mondi packaging division. Oswald was appointed chief executive officer of the Europe & International Division in January 2008. He is also currently serving as chairman of the Confederation of European Paper Industries.

Austria: A TEC Group has appointed Wolfgang Hammer as its new managing director. The former Global Sales Manager at the company replaces Hans Joachim Grieb who retired on 31 March 2016. Stefan Kern has been appointed his deputy. He is responsible for the markets Northern Europe, Eastern Europe and South Africa. These appointments are effective from 1 April 2016.

Austria: Ghassan Broummana has been appointed managing director of A TEC Group from 1 October 2013. As managing director Broummana will be responsible for sales and marketing within the A TEC and A TEC GRECO group.

Broummana started his career in 1987 designing and starting-up cement plants. In 1996 he joined Holcim Group Support in Switzerland where he developed and implemented various corporate initiatives. In 2004, he moved to Holcim's subsidiary in Thailand, Siam City Cement, to start up a new business unit preparing alternative fuels and raw materials from industrial and household waste.

In 2009 Broummana joined the managing committee and executive committee respectively of Holcim's subsidiaries in India, ACC and Ambuja Cements. Here he restructured Techport, the unified technical support service centre that provides expertise to both ACC and Ambuja Cements with the aim of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of over 25 integrated cement plants and grinding stations and managing all the major capital expenditure projects for both companies.

Broummana holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and a Diploma in Wirtschafts-Ingenieur (MBA) from the University of Dortmund. He has also completed a 'Program for Executive Development' at IMD-Lausanne and 'Advanced Management Program' at Harvard Business School, US.