Imerys
Alessandro Dazza, 50 years old, graduated from Politecnico di Milano (Business Engineering).
After starting his industrial career in Italy in 1991, he joined in 1995 Treibacher Schleifmittel in Germany. He participated in a management buyout with a few key managers and became a member of its Managing Board.
Alessandro Dazza joined Imerys in 2002 when Imerys bought Treibacher Schleifmittel.
From 2002 until 2013, Alessandro Dazza held various roles within Imerys and in July 2013, he became Executive Vice President, member of the Executive Committee, in charge of 3 divisions with total sales of approximately €2B.
In November 2018, following the arrival of a new CEO and as the result of a new reorganization, Alessandro Dazza left Imerys. He joined Mondi Plc, a leading company in packaging and paper, as a member of the Executive Committee, was in charge of 2 divisions with total sales of approximately €4B.
Alessandro Dazza became Imerys’ Chief Executive Officer on February 17, 2020.
Imerys
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Imerys SA is a France-based company that is principally engaged in the extraction and processing of minerals. The Company is organized into four Business Groups: Minerals for Ceramics, Refractories, Abrasives and Foundry, which provides a range of products, such as ceramic bodies for porcelain, raw materials for floor tiles and graphite powders; Materials & Monolithics, producing and distributing roofing and structural products, such as roof tiles, bricks and chimney blocks, as well as monolithic refractories; Pigments for Paper and Packaging, which consists of the Company's activities in kaolin and calcium carbonate for the paper industry and Performance & Filtration Minerals, which deals with the processing of kaolin, carbonates, feldspar, vermiculite and diatomite, among others. It operates through Damolin and PyraMax Ceramics LLC, Kerneos SA and Micron-Ita, among others.