OREANDA-NEWS. October 22, 2009. Metinvest has appointed Andrew Herman as Director Engineering of the Steel and Rolled Product Division of Metinvest Holding.

He will be an Executive Team Member of the Division with responsibility to build an effective engineering function with a focus on delivering the Strategic Capital Plan, creating an internal maintenance and repair capability, driving down energy costs and minimizing the environmental impact of operations.

Andy Herman joins Metinvest after 35 years working for Corus where he held senior roles in both manufacturing and engineering. He has extensive international experience having worked in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands and Norway.

Metinvest is an international vertically-integrated mining and steel group of companies. Production facilities of Metinvest produce enough steelmaking raw materials to meet its own demand and to be the key supplier to major steelmaking companies in Ukraine, Europe and Asia.

The major shareholders of Metinvest are SCM Group (75% ownership) and Smart-Holding (25% ownership) partnering in Company’s management. The merger of mining and metals assets of SMC and Smart-Holding has started in 2007 and will have been accomplished in 2009.