Ferroglobe PLC announced that Dr. Marco Levi has been appointed as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Dr. Levi will be based with the Company’s management team in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Levi has over thirty years of executive management and board level experience spanning the chemicals, plastic, rubber and paper industries. Dr. Levi is recognized for his track record in turning around multinational companies and transforming business units. He has held board director roles at a number of companies, and currently serves as a director of Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. Dr. Levi served as President and CEO of Alhstrom-Munksjö Oyj where he led a successful transformation of the business by refocusing its product portfolio towards value-added specialty products. Prior to Alhstrom, Dr. Levi was Senior Vice President and Business President of the $3 billion emulsion polymers division of chemicals manufacturer Styron, including during the period in which Styron was acquired by Bain Capital from Dow Chemical Company. Dr. Levi previously had spent over twenty-two years at Dow in various departments and roles, ultimately serving as general manager of the emulsion polymers business. Dr. Levi succeeds Pedro Larrea Paguaga, who has stepped down from the Company to pursue other opportunities, having served as CEO of Ferroglobe since its inception in 2015 and formerly as CEO of Grupo FerroAtlántica since 2011.
Ferroglobe PLC is a producer of silicon metal and silicon-based alloys, variety of industrial and consumer products. The Company operates through four segments: United States of America, Canada, France, and Spain. It is involved in quartz mining activities in Spain, the United States, Canada; and South Africa, low-ash metallurgical coal mining activities in the United States, and interests in hydroelectric power in France. It sells its products to a diverse base of customers in a varied range of industries, such as aluminum, silicone compounds used in the chemical industry, ductile iron, automotive parts, renewable energy, photovoltaic (solar) cells, electronic semiconductors, and steel. Its solutions include silicon metal, manganese alloys, ferrosilicon, foundry products, calcium silicon, silica fume, electrodes, pulverized products, silicon for advanced technologies, and other. The Company's subsidiaries include Ferroglobe Finance Company PLC, and Ferroglobe Holding Company Ltd.
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