The Board of Grange Resources announced that Honglin Zhao has been appointed CEO of the company, effective immediately. Zhao has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2010 and remains an executive director of the company.
Zhao has over 39 years’ experience in the steel industry and was the manager of Shagang’s iron-making and steel-making plants for many years. He was previously the vice president of Shagang Group and chief commander of Project Development Headquarters with Shagang.
Zhao was the Executive Commander for the project of relocating the ThyssenKrupp Dortmund ‘Phoenix’ steel mill to Shagang in 2001. He led a team of 1,000 employees from different organisations and many disciplines. Zhao and his team completed the project, which was expected to take three years to execute, in one and half years.