https://newsletter.en.creamermedia.com
Copper|Safety|SECURITY|Voith|Operations
Copper|Safety|SECURITY|Voith|Operations
copper|safety|security|voith|operations

Aurubis names Toralf Haag as new CEO after board overhaul

21st June 2024

By: Bloomberg

  

Font size: - +

Copper producer Aurubis has named Toralf Haag as its new CEO, completing an overhaul of its board in the wake of a giant raw-materials fraud.

Haag will take over from Roland Harings, after the company’s supervisory board terminated his contract early in January, along with two other executive board members. The move followed Aurubis’s decision to carry out an independent legal probe into a criminal scam that cost the copper producer about €169-million ($184-million) last year.

The fraud was perpetrated by suppliers and complicit employees, and involved valuable scrap raw materials. It followed on from a smaller theft discovered a few months earlier, and both issues have raised uncomfortable questions about the company’s security controls. Operational safety has also been scrutinized following the death of three workers after a nitrogen leak at its Hamburg plant.

Haag joins the company from Voith Group, and has previously worked at Aurubis in the early 2000s. Tim Kurth has also been named chief operating officer of the company’s custom smelting operations. Both will begin their new roles on September 1.

Aurubis shares were trading 4.6% higher at €76.15 by 4:28 p.m. in Frankfurt. Germany’s Manager Magazin speculated that the company’s biggest shareholder, Salzgitter, may seek to increase its influence.

Edited by Bloomberg

Comments

Showroom

Essentra Components
Essentra Components

We are responsible manufacturers of essential components. Manufacturing 80 million parts a week, we have over 1 billion parts in stock.

VISIT SHOWROOM 
Weir
Weir

Weir is a global leader in mining technology. We recognise that our planet’s future depends on the transition to renewable energy, and that...

VISIT SHOWROOM 

Latest Multimedia

sponsored by

Photo of Martin Creamer
On-The-Air (04/04/2025)
4th April 2025 By: Martin Creamer
Magazine round up | 04 April 2025
Magazine round up | 04 April 2025
4th April 2025

Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):

Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format

Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):

All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.

Already a subscriber?

Forgotten your password?

MAGAZINE & ONLINE

SUBSCRIBE

RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA

SUBSCRIBE

CORPORATE PACKAGES

CLICK FOR A QUOTATION







sq:0.113 0.202s - 170pq - 2rq
Subscribe Now