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Salzgitter Announces Next Executive Board Chairman
Jul. 15, 2010 The Salzgitter AG Supervisory Board unanimously appointed Prof. Dr. Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann as the Chairman of Salzgitter’s Executive Board during an extraordinary meeting held this week.
Fuhrmann will serve in this position for the period from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2016. He will succeed Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Leese, who will retire from this post as from June 2011.
To date, Fuhrmann (53) has headed finances as well as the Group’s Technology Division. He has been active as Vice Chairman since December 2007.
Salzgitter AG ranks among Europe's leading steel, tubes and technology companies. The Group employs around 24,000 people worldwide and produces an average of more than 7 million tonnes of crude steel per year.