Andy Dix elected new president of British Precast

Andy Dix, managing director of 5934 Charcon Construction Solutions, has been elected president of the 1829 British Precast Concrete Federation, the trade body for concrete products in the UK. He takes over for the period 2012-14 succeeding Steve Parker, managing director of Buchan Concrete Solutions.

Dix started his career in mechanical engineering, joining 3071 Marshalls in 1982. Having worked in commercial, sales, production and finance roles he became managing director of its subsidiary companies in 1994.

He is chairman of the Precast Flooring Federation, part of British Precast, and has sat on the board of the International Prestressed Hollowcore Association. In 2002 he set up a paving and construction materials company subsequently selling to 1707 Aggregate Industries in 2005, joining the company to run the structural concrete business.

He is now managing director of Charcon Construction Solutions, an AI joint venture.

He also mentors students and is a Fellow of the 5935 Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

At recent annual meeting of British Precast Dix thanked Steve Parker for his outstanding contribution to the business over three challenging years. He dedicated his period in office to continuing to make the industry as safe as possible with a view to universal zero harm and to increasing membership of qualifying companies who could meet British Precast Raising the Bar standards. He urged member companies to increase their individual and collective marketing activity through British Precast and its product groups to beat the competition.

British chief executive Martin Clarke welcomed Andy Dix to the position of president, saying: “Andy and I have a shared vision of where the concrete products industry should be going. We have a strong council to work with and a great young staff team in Leicester [County Leicester, central England] to make it happen.”