Centrex Limited announced the appointment of Enzo Artone as Chief Technical Officer and Engineering and Gavin Swart as Projects Managerto support the development of the Company's Ardmore Phosphate Project and progress other key projects. Enzo holds a tertiary qualification in Primary Metallurgy and has more than 40 years' Australian and international resource industry experience. He has previously held senior roles for RIO Tinto, BHP, Newmont, WMC and Normandy.

His most recent role was Manager/Principal Process Engineer (Brownfield Expansion Project) with BHP at their Olympic Dam Operation. Key projects that Enzo has been involved in include BHP's brownfields expansion ($2.3B), OD debottlenecking project; the WMC Olympic Dam Expansion ($1.5B, 1998); and Hamersley Iron optimisation. His past roles include Principal Consultant Mineral Processing (Base Metals and Gold) for Rio Tinto Technical Services and Experimental Scientist with CSIRO Minerals Processing.His initial task is to assist Centrex's 100% subsidiary Agriflex Pty Ltd. (Agriflex) with the commissioning of its Ardmore processing plant and the finalisation of the metallurgical flowsheet for the 800,000 tpa phosphate processing plant.

As Chief Technical Officer, Enzo is responsible for Centrex's new business, project and product generation. Gavin holds tertiary qualifications in Extractive Metallurgy, Business Management and Project Management and more than 34 years' resource industry experience in Africa, Asia, USA, and Australia. His most recent role was as Operations Manager for Iluka Resources at their Jacinth Ambrosia Operation.

Gavin's initial task is managing the construction of Agriflex's 800,000 tpa phosphate processing plant. As Centrex Engineering and Project Manager, Gavin is responsible for the Company's engineering standard and project execution.