UK: Hanson has appointed Paul Lacey as the general manager of its packed products business. Lacey, who was previously head of sustainability and marketing for Hanson, has also worked for Ronseal and Crown Paints and has extensive experience in commercial and business development. He will be responsible for sites across the country producing packed cementitious products such as Postfix, as well as decorative and construction aggregates.

Germany: Franz-Josef Paus has been elected as the chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) for the next three years. Paus, aged 55 years, is an executive at Hermann Paus Maschinenfabrik. He succeeds Johann Sailer, a managing partner of GEDA-Dechentreiter, who has decided to step down after a six-year tenure. The appointment of Paus was formerly announced at the association’s General Assembly in Dusseldorf. Joachim Strobel, the sales director of Liebherr Emtec, and Hermann Weckenmann, a managing partner at Weckenmann Anlagentechnik, will act as his deputies in the role.

US: Eagle Materials has appointed Margot Carter to its board of directors. She currently serves as the lead independent director, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of the Audit Committee of Installed Building Products, an installer of building products, and a director of Freeman Company, a brand experience business. Carter has previously worked as the executive vice president, chief legal officer and secretary of several public companies, including RealPage, a global provider of software and data analytics to the real estate industry.

Sweden: The board of directors of BillerudKorsnäs has appointed Petra Einarsson new president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company. She succeeds Per Lindberg, who leaves the company after 12 years in the role. Einarsson will assume her new position at the start of 2018.

Since 2013 Einarsson has been the president of Sandvik Materials Technology and a member of the Group Executive Management of Sandvik. Prior to that she has held a number of senior positions within the Sandvik group, including president of product area Tube, president of product area Strip and Financial Manager at Sandvik Materials Technology. Einarsson was born in 1967 and holds a BSc in Business Administration and Economics.