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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Adriano Alfani, senior
global business director at Dow, has been named new CEO of Versalis, effective 1
January, reported Chemweek.
Daniele
Ferrari, who has served as Versalis CEO since February 2011, will leave the
company at the end of the year.
Alfani started his career at Versalis
predecessor EniChem and has been with Dow since 2001.
"We would sincerely
like to thank Daniele for these 10 years of passionate enthusiasm and intense
activity and for having believed in and led our company on a path towards and
increasingly sustainable and circular chemical industry, transforming Versalis’
business model and placing it among the leaders of the chemical industry at an
international level," Versalis said.
As MRC informed before,
Versalis, the chemicals subsidiary of Eni (Rome, Italy), has reduced production
at its 65,000-metric tons/year acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) plant at
Mantova, Italy, to 50% until at least February 2021 due to one of its suppliers
declaring force majeure.
We remind that in 2019, Versalis unveiled plans
to increase
production capacity for ABS at its Mantua, Italy, facility. The project will
boost ABS capacity at its existing unit by 30,000 t/y. The engineering phase ha
already begun, and production was scheduled to start in 2020.
According
to MRC's ScanPlast
report, October ABS shipments to the Russian market virtually remained at
the previous month's level, totalling 5,060 tonnes. Overall consumption of
material in Russia was 37,120 tonnes in the first ten months of 2020, down by 6%
year on year.
Eni is an Italian multinational oil and gas company
headquartered in Rome. It has operations in in 79 countries, and is currently
Italy's largest industrial company. The Italian government owns a 30.3% golden
share in the company, 3.93% held through the state Treasury and 26.37% held
through the Cassa depositi e prestiti. Another 39.40% of the shares are held by
BNP Paribas. |
