Ferroglobe PLC Appoints Carsten Larsen as Chief Commercial Officer, Effective April 1, 2024
March 13, 2024 at 08:00 am EDT
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Ferroglobe PLC announced that it has appointed Carsten Larsen as Chief Commercial Officer, effective April 1, 2024. Mr. Larsen brings three decades of international experience in developing new business growth strategies, maximizing sales and profitability, and leading cross-functional teams. He has spent his entire professional career in the industrial sector, most recently having served as Chief Commercial Officer and Managing Director at Agilyx ApS, a company specializing in plastic recycling technology. Prior to his role at Agilyx, Mr. Larsen spent 25 years at Dow, in roles including Commercial Director, Director New Business Development and Product Marketing Manager, where he gathered extensive knowledge of the global markets, having worked across countries including Germany, Denmark, Sweden and South Africa.
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.