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Ghassan Broummana to become managing director at A TEC
13 September 2013Austria: Ghassan Broummana has been appointed managing director of A TEC Group from 1 October 2013. As managing director Broummana will be responsible for sales and marketing within the A TEC and A TEC GRECO group.
Broummana started his career in 1987 designing and starting-up cement plants. In 1996 he joined Holcim Group Support in Switzerland where he developed and implemented various corporate initiatives. In 2004, he moved to Holcim's subsidiary in Thailand, Siam City Cement, to start up a new business unit preparing alternative fuels and raw materials from industrial and household waste.
In 2009 Broummana joined the managing committee and executive committee respectively of Holcim's subsidiaries in India, ACC and Ambuja Cements. Here he restructured Techport, the unified technical support service centre that provides expertise to both ACC and Ambuja Cements with the aim of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of over 25 integrated cement plants and grinding stations and managing all the major capital expenditure projects for both companies.
Broummana holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering and a Diploma in Wirtschafts-Ingenieur (MBA) from the University of Dortmund. He has also completed a 'Program for Executive Development' at IMD-Lausanne and 'Advanced Management Program' at Harvard Business School, US.
Austrian cement industry hit by pressure on prices
19 June 2013Austria: Price pressure is becoming an ever-greater problem for the cement industry in Austria, according to the head of an industry group.
"In 2012 the volume of sales remained the same, but revenues dropped substantially", the chairman of the management of the Association of Austrian Cement Industry (VÖZ), Rudolf Zrost, said on Tuesday.
Cement sales in 2012 remained almost unchanged at 4.46Mt, compared to 4.43Mt in 2011. However, revenues slumped by 4.7% to Euro375m.
New appointments at A TEC GRECO
17 April 2013Austria: Pyroprocessing specialist A TEC GRECO has announced two appointments. Peter Schwei will join the company as Sales and Technical Managing Director from 3 June 2013. Christoph Voutsinas joined the company on 2 April 2013 as Global Sales Manager. Both roles will be based in Austria.
Schwei, aged 50, previously worked as the technical managing director for a cement producer in Austria. He holds a mining degree from Montan University in Leoben.
Voutsinas, aged 34, previously worked in account and sales management in the refractory industry. He holds a physics degree from the Technical University Vienna.
Loesche and A TEC enter into close cooperation
17 May 2012Germany/Austria: In a move that affects two major cement industry suppliers Loesche GmbH of Germany, the market leader in dry-grinding technology, and pyroprocessing specialist A TEC Holding GmbH of Austria have entered into a close cooperation agreement. The companies say that it is a mutually-beneficial move and both are convinced that they can jointly provide an even stronger and better support to clients in the cement industry. However, the core business of both companies will remain unchanged.
The companies said that the cooperation, combining technologies and sales organisation, opens new interesting opportunities for certain types of projects, for example combined upgrading projects including grinding circuits and pyroprocess optimisation. The cooperation also generates attractive synergies for both companies. They added that research and development and joint technology developments will provide new and innovative solutions to solve the issues of the cement production market in the future.