Wolfensberger to leave Holcim

Stefan Heissler has stepped down as a member of the board of directors of Liebherr-International for personal reasons.

The Swiss-based construction and mining equipment manufacturer says that Heissler has also left the Liebherr Group.

The Liebherr-International board of directors will continue its work as a three-member board for the time being with Andreas Böhm, Stephan Raemy and Uwe Rechtsteiner.

The company thanked Heissler for the trusting cooperation and his many years of commitment and ded

Swiss cement giant Holcim has announced that Jacques Bourgon, currently Head of OH&S for the Holcim Group, and Senior Advisor to the CEO, Bernard Fontana, is to leave the company on 31 December 2014.

A company statement says: “Holcim thanks Jacques Bourgon for the valuable contributions he has made to the success of the Group in various roles during his 24 years with the company.”

Holcim has announced that Beat Hess, chairman of the company since 2016, has decided not to seek re-election to the board of directors at the AGM in May 2023. 

Holcim España is overhauling its organisational and industrial structure after seeing sales plummet by 63% (56million tonnes to 20.2million tonnes) between 2007 and 2011. In the first four months of 2012, sales have dropped a further 40%. The firm said it now plans to: Rationalise its commercial organisation under a single management body which will sell all the firm's products in the different customer markets