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Democratic Republic of Congo: Heidelberg Materials has appointed Abderrahim Touile as the plant manager of its Lukala cement plant, operated by local subsidiary Cimenterie de Lukala.

Touile previously worked as the Industry Director for Vicat in Mauritania. He also worked as production manager for Ciments de l'Afrique (CIMAF) in Burkina Faso. Before these roles he held production roles with Lafarge in Morocco and South Africa between 2002 and 2015. Amongst other business and management qualification, Touile holds as master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from the Sorbonne Business School in France.

Germany: The German Cement Works Association (VDZ) has appointed Kristina Fleiger as the head of its new Climate-neutral Process Technology department. Stefan Schäfer has become the head of Environment and Industrial Engineering department. Both posts report to Volker Hoenig, who retains his position as the managing director of the VDZ.

Fleiger has worked for the VDZ in project management and engineering roles since 2011.

Schäfer was previously the VDZ’s Deputy Head of Environment and Plant Technology. He has worked for the VDZ since 1999.

Germany: Beumer Group has appointed Kay Wieczorek as the Head of its Center of Competence (COC) Product Business. The division is responsible for the Cement, Building Materials, Chemicals and FMCG divisions. He succeeds Norbert Stemich, who has been appointed as the chief strategy officer of Beumer Machinery (Shanghai) in China.

Kay Wieczorek has worked for Beumer Group since 2014. Most recently he was responsible for cement division sales. He holds a degree in Sales Engineering and Product Management from the Ruhr University in Bochum.

US: Inform has appointed Justin Newell as the chief executive officer (CEO) of its subsidiary Inform North America. He succeeds Adrian Weiler, who will continue in his role as ongoing advisor to the CEOs across all of Inform Group’s subsidiaries. Newell will retain his role as chief operating officer, which he has held since 2019. Newell started working for Inform after holding management roles at Reliable Carriers, Porsche Cars North America and Genuine Parts Company.

Sri Lanka: INSEE Cement has appointed Jan Kunigk as its chief executive officer (CEO). He succeeds Nandana Ekanayake, who will continue as chair.

Kunigk became the cement producer’s Executive Vice President in 2017, and also worked as its Commercial Director. He previously worked as the Senior Vice President at Holcim Indonesia and has held project and strategy and roles for Holcim in Switzerland. Prior to this, he worked in management consulting. Kunigk holds a master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Western Illinois University in the USA and a diploma in European Business Studies from Bamberg University in Germany.