New CEO and also new Chief Production Officer
Aurubis its announced restructuring earlier this year in January Board of Directors completed.
This was recently reported by the supplier of copper and other metals. At its meeting on 20 June 2024, the company's Supervisory Board decided to appoint Toralf Haag as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Tim Kurth as the new Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the primary copper business. The two managers will take up their positions with effect from 1 September 2024.
New CEO with industry experience
As the Hamburg-based company states in its press release, the future CEO has extensive industry experience. Toralf Haag began.
In the interim, he was CFO at Norddeutsche Affinerie AG, now Aurubis AG, from 2002 to 2005 before moving to Lonza Group AG. In October 2016, Toralf Haag became a member of the Voith Group Executive Board, a position he has held as Chairman since October 2018.
Long-serving Aurubis employee as new Chief Operating Officer
The new Chief Production Officer Tim Kurth is currently still the Managing Director of Aurubis Bulgaria and plant manager of the Bulgarian site. He gained his first professional experience at Unilever. Kurth joined Aurubis AG in 2006 and has held various management positions there since then. For example, at Aurubis he has worked as Corporate Innovation Manager and Vice President Corporate Logistics. The company also writes about Kurth that he possesses extensive knowledge of metallurgical processes and Aurubis's operational business.