On October 1, Italcementi announced that Elena Zambon is retiring from its Board of Directors for professional reasons. She had been acting as Independent Director and was a member of the Strategic Committee of the Company, having been in charge since 16 April 2010.
This comes as the second personnel change for the Italcementi Group in the last two months. On 28 August, Alex Car was appointed as president and CEO of its Essroc North American operations. He succeeded Francesco Carantani who has taken on new duties within the Italcementi Group. Car previously served as senior vice president of cement sales and marketing and general manager of construction materials at Essroc.
WCT2020 provides a unique online forum for cement industry professionals to hear first-hand from experts through a series of exclusive presentations from cement producers and industry experts.
World Cement Editor, David Bizley, sat down with Michael Tay, Advanced Analytics Product Manager at Rockwell Automation to discuss his recent article in World Cement.
Entitled ‘Smooth Sailing’, this article explains how machine learning can help save energy, reduce downtime and predict equipment failures, thus enabling the smooth running of cement plant operations.
The cement industry has recently recognised Roanoke Cement Company (RCC) with top honours for Outreach in the 2020 Portland Cement Association (PCA) Cement Industry Energy and Environment Awards.
North American cement producer Essroc, part of the Italcementi group, has closed on the acquisition of Holcim’s 0.5 million tpy slag cement grinding plant in New Jersey.
