Imerys Appoints Vincent Lecerf as Chief Human Resources Officer
January 12, 2017 at 10:15 pm IST
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Imerys announced that the company moves on with the renewal and enlargement of its Executive Committee, after Jean-François Claver appointment as Chief Industrial Officer and Thierry Materne appointment as Chief Innovation Officer. Vincent Lecerf is appointed Imerys Group Chief Human Resources Officer. A member of the Group Executive Committee, he reports to the Chairman & CEO, Gilles Michel. Since 2008, Vincent was Executive Vice-President and a member of the Management Board of Tarkett. Previously, he held various human resources roles within Norbert Dentressangle Group, Rhodia, Poclain Hydraulics, and Valeo. Additionally, the responsibilities of Olivier Hautin, member of the Group Executive Committee since 2008 and Group Executive Vice-President now encompass Strategy and Acquisitions. Olivier Hautin joined Imerys in 1997 as Strategy Director then he has been in charge of several Imerys divisions, before taking the lead of the Energy Solutions & Specialties business group.
As a world leader in mineral specialties for the industry, Imerys offers high-added-value business solutions for a wide range of sectors, from process industries to consumer goods or construction products. The group actively mobilizes its knowledge of applications, technological expertise and materials science know how to provide high-end solutions that value its mineral resources, develop formulations or produce synthetic minerals. All these actions bring about essential properties to its customers' products and their performance such as refractoriness, toughness, conductivity, opacity, durability, purity, lightness, filtration, absorption, or hydrophobicity. Imerys is strongly committed to responsible developmentin particular, to contribute to the development of environmentally friendly products and processes. The activity is organized around 2 areas:
- Performance Minerals: the segment brings together three geographical business areas - Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), America and Asia/Pacific (APAC). This segment encompasses functional additives that give unique properties to the products they compose. It serves the plastics, rubber, paint and coatings, filtration, ceramic materials, renewable energy, paper and cardboard, food, health and cosmetic industries;
- Materials and High Temperature Solutions: the segment, managed globally, brings together two business areas - High Temperature Solutions and Refractories, Abrasives & Construction. This segment facilitates production processes involving high temperatures. It serves the refractory, foundry, metals, abrasives and building chemicals markets.
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