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Dorothy M Ables appointed to board of directors of Martin Marietta Materials
Written by Global Cement staff
07 November 2018
US: Dorothy M Ables has been appointed to the board of directors of Martin Marietta Materials. With Ables’ appointment, the Martin Marietta board comprises 10 directors, four of whom have joined since 2016. She will serve on Martin Marietta’s Audit Committee.
Ables, aged 60 years, brings financial and operational experience to the Martin Marietta board. Most recently, she served as Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of Spectra Energy from 2008 until her retirement in early 2017, completing a career of over 30 years at Spectra Energy and its predecessor companies. As CAO, Ables was responsible for information technology, human resources, support services and community relations. Prior to that, she held roles as Vice President of Audit Services and as Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer for Spectra, and as Senior Vice President and chief financial officer (CFO) for Duke Energy Gas Transmission. Ables began her career in the audit department of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co, a predecessor of KPMG.
Ables currently serves as a member of the board of directors of Cabot Oil & Gas, where she is on the Audit and Compensation Committees. She also sits on the board of Houston Methodist Hospital Foundation. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting.
Uzbekstian sells 80% of cement sales through commodity exchange
Written by Global Cement staff
05 November 2018
Uzbekistan: 80% of local cement sales were made through the Uzbek Commodity Exchange in the first nine months of 2018. Local sales fell by 4.7% year-on-year to 5.6Mt from 5.9Mt, according to the Trend News Agency. 4.5Mt of this total was sold through the commodity exchange. Falling sales have been blamed on rising natural gas and electricity prices. Tariffs for gas and electricity have increased by at least 60% during 2018 for industrial users in the construction industry, including cement producers.
Eurocement appoints new managers at Voronezh and Neviansky plants
Written by Global Cement staff
31 October 2018
Russia: Eurocement has appointed Sergey Lobov as the manager of its Voronezh subsidiary and Vadim Shablitsky as the general director of its Neviansky cement plant. Yaroslav Stoupa, Vice-President of Eurocement Group for production and technical development, introduced the new appointments at a visit to each plant.
Lobov graduated from the Belgorod State Technological Academy of Building Materials with a degree in mechanical engineering. He has been working in the cement industry for 17 years, of which 14 have has been based at the Oskolcement enterprise, where he has advanced from being an equipment repairman to a deputy general director and technical director. From 2015, he worked as the general director of Neviansky Cementnik.
Shablitsky graduated from Belgorod State University of Technology with a degree in chemical engineering and an engineering qualification. He has been working in the cement industry for over 14 years. At the Belgorodsky Cement he worked in various positions from assistant cement mill driver to plant general director, and then he was deputy general director for production at Mordovcement.
RHI Magnesita appoints Jacqueline Knox as EVP General Legal Counsel & Company Secretary
Written by Global Cement staff
31 October 2018
Austria: RHI Magnesita has appointed Jacqueline Knox as EVP General Legal Counsel & Company Secretary. She will join the company on 1 December 2018 and will be part of its executive management team.
Knox was previously General Counsel and Company Secretary at Ophir Energy, a Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) listed upstream oil and gas business with a large portfolio of assets across Africa and Asia, which she helped to take from a private company to a London listing. She holds a dual degree in law and international relations (BA/LLB) from the University of Queensland and is a dual British / Australian citizen.
Nick Miller appointed as chief executive officer of Adelaide Brighton
Written by Global Cement staff
24 October 2018
Australia: Nick Miller has been appointed as the next chief executive officer (CEO) of Adelaide Brighton following the scheduled retirement of Martin Brydon. Miller will start the role no later than 17 April 2019, following a transition period.
Miller is currently managing director and CEO of Broadspectrum, part of the Ferrovial Group that designs, funds, constructs, operates and maintains major projects and infrastructure assets. At Broadspectrum he has overseen a workforce of more than 14,500 people in Australia and New Zealand.
Prior to joining Broadspectrum, Miller was managing director at Fulton Hogan from 2010 to 2017, a construction materials, infrastructure services and civil construction company operating across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. His 25 years of experience includes five years as CEO of Fulton Hogan’s Australian business, and CEO of Isaac Construction in Christchurch.
Miller has a Bachelors in Engineering, is a Fellow of the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand, and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is a past director of the Australian Constructors Association (ACA), Orion New Zealand, Quake Core, Rangi Ruru Girls School, Roading New Zealand, Roads Australia and the NZ Council for Infrastructure Development (NZCID).