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UltraTech appoints Arun Adhikari as an Additional Director
Written by Global Cement staff
04 December 2013
India: UltraTech Cement has appointed Arun Adhikari as an Additional Independent Director on the Board with effect from 3 December 2013.
Gangotri Cement appoints Rajendra K Shah as Independent Director
Written by Global Cement staff
27 November 2013
India: Gangotri Cement has appointed Rajendra K Shah as an additional Independent Director with effect from 25 November 2013. Shah has also been appointed as a member of the Audit Committee and Shareholders' Grievances Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company. Gangotri Cement said that Ravi Kamra had resigned as a Director due to personal and professional commitments.
Shree Cement director resigns
Written by Global Cement staff
25 November 2013
India: Shree Cement Ltd announced on 25 November 2013 that Shri Mahendra Singhi, Executive Director of the Company, had resigned with effect from 6 December 2013. No further details were made provided.
Andre Tissen appointed head of Beumer cement business unit
Written by Global Cement staff
20 November 2013
Germany: Andre Tissen has been appointed manager of the cement business unit at Beumer Group effective from October 2013.
His responsibilities include managing Beumer's cement competency centre at the company's headquarters in Beckum, marketing Beumer's product portfolio, developing Beumer's sales team, optimising the company's sales structure and coordinating communication between the company's factories around the world.
Tissen, aged 43, has previously held various sales positions in the cement industry. Before joining Beumer, Tissen worked as Sales Manager, Europa & Key Accounts, at a conveyor equipment specialist.
Reinhold Festge elected president of the VDMA
Written by Global Cement staff
13 November 2013
Germany: Reinhold Festge, Managing Partner of Haver & Boecker, has been elected as the new president of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) at a gathering of its members in Stuttgart on 18 October 2013. He succeeds Thomas Lindner of the Groz-Beckert KG in Albstadt who served as president of the VDMA since 2010. Karl Haeusgen and Carl Martin Welcker were elected as vice presidents.
Festge, born in 1945, originally trained as a doctor before he majored in Business Administration and then became managing director of Haver & Beumer Latinoamericana in Brazil. From 1985 to 1987 he served as the managing director of Haver Filling Systems in the US. In 1987 he became a partner of Haver & Boecker.
Festge is a member of the restricted board and sits on the main board of the VDMA. From 1998 to 2004 he was chairman of the VDMA professional association for construction and building material machinery. He was chairman of the VDMA state federation of North Rhine Westphalia from 2005 to 2011.