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Finland: Tana Oy has appointed Anu Söderena as Manager, Nordics & Baltics. Her responsibilities include leading and developing the sales and rental business of Tana Rental's machine portfolio, as well as coordinating maintenance and spare parts operations.

Söderena previously worked as a Business Development Manager at Kuusakoski Recycling, where she was responsible for managing a recycling plant investment project, among other roles. She holds a master’s degree in materials engineering and a master of business administration qualification.

Philippines: The Consunji Group has appointed Herbert M Consunji as the president and CEO of Cemex Holdings Philippines (CHP). The group completed its acquisitions of CHP from Cemex in early December 2024, according to the Manila Bulletin newspaper. It plans to change the name of the company to Concreat Holdings Philippines subject to the approval of shareholders at a meeting to be held in February 2025.

Consunji is the Executive Vice President, Chief Finance Officer, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Risk Officer of DMCI Holdings, part of Consunji Group. He concurrently sits on the board of various DMCI Holdings subsidiary companies. He is a certified public accountant and he graduated from De La Salle University in Manila with a degree in commerce majoring in Accounting.

Germany: Heidelberg Materials has appointed Gün Burak Günbey as Senior Project Manager at its Competence Center Cement global research and development hub.

Günbey has worked for the cement sector since the late 2000s. He has held engineering, project management and investment roles at OYAK Bolu Çimento, Limak Cement and Vicat. He became the Group Investment Manager for Vicat Group Türkiye in 2021 and subsequently worked as Project Expert for VICAT Senegal Sococim from 2023.

Germany: thyssenkrupp Polysius has appointed Philip Glörfeld as Head of Business Development & Sales. He will succeed Lukas Schoeneck in the role from the start of January 2025. Schoeneck became the head of Operating Unit Green Solutions in October 2024.

Glörfeld has worked for thyssenkrupp since 2015 in business development roles. In 2020 he became the Director Business Development & Sales Europe, Africa & CIS for the Polysius business unit that later became thyssenkrupp Polysius. Prior to his time at thyssenkrupp he worked at Siemens. He is a graduate from the Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin and holds a master of business administration from the University of Plymouth.

Pakistan: Thatta Cement has appointed Muhammad Owais as its chief financial officer. He succeeds Muhammad Abid Khan in the role. Khan will continue to work at the cement producer as company secretary. Owais has worked for Thatta Cement in a variety of managerial finance roles since 2020, apart from a brief period with ready-mixed concrete company Allied Materials in mid-2023. Prior to this he worked for Deloitte Pakistan.