OREANDA-NEWS. Sergei Susev, the Vice-President of production for the EUROCEMENT Group, introduced the new head of Kavkazcement.

Igor Nikolenko has been appointed the new general director of CJSC Kavkazcement.

The new director is a manager of high professional qualification with deep knowledge of EUROCEMENT group's business processes and long experience in the field of construction materials.

Igor Nikolenko was born in Belgorod in 1965. Having graduated from Belgorod Technological Institute of Building Materials in Mechanical Engineering in 1990, he came to work in the Belgorod cement plant. He worked as a deputy general director, technical director of Balcem, a general director of Savinskiy cement plant, a deputy general director, technical director of EUROCEMENT-Ukraine. He was the head of Mikhailovcement plant from 2012 until 2015.

Kavkazcement is one of the largest cement plants in southern Russia. Its production capacity is 3.1 million tpy. The raw material base is Ust-Dzhegutinsky mine limestone and clay in Karachay-Cherkessia. The company became part of the Eurocement Group in 2004.