Flanagan appointed FLSmidth executive VP

For the first time in 130 years, 7451 FLSmidth, a Denmark-based supplier of equipment and services to the global minerals and cement industries, has promoted a non-Dane to its executive leadership team.

Peter J. Flanagan has been selected to serve as a member of group executive management, and as executive vice president of FLSmidth’s newly-formed Non-Ferrous Division, which provides advanced minerals processing technologies, systems and solutions to the global mining industry.

Flanagan, who is originally from Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, has worked in the mining and minerals processing industry for more than 25 years. Formerly, he led FLSmidth’s mining activities in the Americas.

He now takes the reins of FLSmidth’s largest of four divisions with an order intake of more than US$1.8 billion [€1.35 billion] booked in 2011.

“Promoting Peter to this executive management position is part of our new global strategy and will significantly strengthen our g roup structure,” said Jorgen Huno Rasmussen, group CEO.

Headquartered in Valby, Denmark, the company employs approximately 13,000 people in 40 countries.