Turkey: Batıçim has appointed Akif Geçer as its general manager and as a member of its executive board. Arif Alp Dündar has also been appointed as chief financial officer and as a member of the executive board.

Geçer was the general manager of construction company Türkerler Holding from 2011 to 2015. Prior to this he held management positions at Çimko Cemento and Şanlıurfa Çimento and production roles at OYAK and Denizli Cement dating back to the early 1990s. He is a graduate in chemical engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.

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.

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.

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.