Spain: Vicente Pedro has been appointed as the new plant manager of Lafarge Spain’s Montcada i Reixac plant near Barcelona. He succeeds José Luis Coleto, who will take over the management of the Sagunto plant in Valencia, according to the Crónica Global newspaper.

Pedro trained as an industrial engineer at the Universitat Politècnica de València. He has worked for LafargeHolcim and its predecessor companies for over 30 years spending time at plants at Spain, Venezuela and Brazil. More recently he has managed the company’s capital expenditure projects in Spain.

China: Xu Weibing has been appointed as the supervisor and chairman of supervisory committee at China National Building Material (CNBM) following shareholder approval. Her term will last until the end of May 2019. She replaces Wu Jiwei.

Xu, aged 58 years, holds over 30 years of experience in financial accounting and capital operation. She has worked as the chief accountant of CNBM since May 2017 and was its deputy general manager prior to that. She graduated from Liaoning Finance and Economics Institute in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree, majoring in finance, and is a senior accountant.

Germany: Markus Bochynek is to leave the management board of Aucotec in April 2018. His responsibility for sales and marketing will be taken over by fellow board member Uwe Vogt. The other board member, chief executive officer (CEO) Horst Beran, will remain in post. The existing management team below the management board will assume some of the previous responsibilities and tasks of Vogt and Bochynek.

The engineering software company is also planning to build a new head office in 2018.

Chile: Cementos Bío Bío has appointed Katia Trusich as director and member of the Directors Committee. Her appointment follows the resignation of André Roberto Leitão. Trusich has held of number of private and public sector roles, including working as the Under Secretary of Economics for the Chilean government between 2014 and 2016. Most recently she has been the Corporate Affairs Manager for CGE.