{"id":763485,"date":"2023-06-13T16:33:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T20:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/graftech-announces-appointment-of-new-board-member\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T20:33:34","slug":"graftech-announces-appointment-of-new-board-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/graftech-announces-appointment-of-new-board-member\/","title":{"rendered":"GrafTech Announces Appointment of New Board Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <!--.bwalignc { text-align: center; list-style-position: inside }body {font:normal small Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#000;background-color:#fff;padding:24px;margin:0;} a img {border:0;} h3 {font-size:medium;color:#000;margin:0 0 1em 0; text-align:center;}-->  <\/p>\n<p class=\"bwalignc\"><b>GrafTech Announces Appointment of New Board Member<\/b><\/p>\n<p>BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Ohio&#8211;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\">BUSINESS WIRE<\/a>)&#8211;<br \/>\nGrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE:EAF) (the \u201cCompany\u201d or \u201cGrafTech\u201d) today announced that its Board of Directors has increased its size to provide for an additional director and appointed Diego Donoso as a director of the Company. The Board is now comprised of nine directors, of which seven are independent with the addition of Mr. Donoso, whose term expires in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI am pleased to welcome Diego as the newest member of our Board of Directors,\u201d said Henry Keizer, Chairman of the Board of GrafTech. \u201cHis deep experience as a global executive at a multinational company, along with his expertise in the manufacturing sector, will further strengthen the skills and experience represented on our Board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nMr. Donoso formerly served as President of Packaging &amp; Specialty Plastics of Dow Inc. (\u201cDow\u201d), a multinational materials science company, from 2012 until his retirement in April 2023. Mr. Donoso began his career at Dow more than 30 years ago when he joined Dow as a trainee in the commercial department in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. Since then, Mr. Donoso served in numerous business, commercial and executive leadership positions for Dow. Mr. Donoso has broad international experience and developed expertise in a manufacturing sector affected by economic cycles and volatile market dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><b>About GrafTech<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nGrafTech International Ltd. is a leading manufacturer of high-quality graphite electrode products essential to the production of electric arc furnace steel and other ferrous and non-ferrous metals. The Company has a competitive portfolio of low-cost, ultra-high power graphite electrode manufacturing facilities, including three of the highest capacity facilities in the world. We are the only large-scale graphite electrode producer that is substantially vertically integrated into petroleum needle coke, our key raw material for graphite electrode manufacturing. This unique position provides us with competitive advantages in product quality and cost.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=bwnews&amp;sty=20230613716889r1&amp;sid=flmnd&amp;distro=nx&amp;lang=en\" style=\"width:0;height:0\" \/><span class=\"bwct31415\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"mmgallerylink\"><span id=\"mmgallerylink-phrase\">View source version on businesswire.com: <\/span><span id=\"mmgallerylink-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230613716889\/en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20230613716889\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\nMichael Dillon<br \/>\n<br \/>216-676-2000<\/p>\n<p><b>KEYWORDS:<\/b> United States North America Ohio<\/p>\n<p><b>INDUSTRY KEYWORDS:<\/b> Natural Resources Manufacturing Steel Mining\/Minerals Machine Tools, Metalworking &amp; Metallurgy<\/p>\n<p><b>MEDIA:<\/b><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"3\" cellspacing=\"3\">\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><b>Logo<\/b><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mms.businesswire.com\/media\/20230613716889\/en\/655890\/3\/GrafTech%2520International%2520%28Color%29.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GrafTech Announces Appointment of New Board Member BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Ohio&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; GrafTech International Ltd. (NYSE:EAF) (the \u201cCompany\u201d or \u201cGrafTech\u201d) today announced that its Board of Directors has increased its size to provide for an additional director and appointed Diego Donoso as a director of the Company. The Board is now comprised of nine directors, of which seven are independent with the addition of Mr. Donoso, whose term expires in 2025. \u201cI am pleased to welcome Diego as the newest member of our Board of Directors,\u201d said Henry Keizer, Chairman of the Board of GrafTech. \u201cHis deep experience as a global executive at a multinational company, along with his expertise in the manufacturing sector, will further strengthen the skills and experience &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/graftech-announces-appointment-of-new-board-member\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GrafTech Announces Appointment of New Board Member&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GrafTech Announces Appointment of New Board Member - Market Newsdesk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/graftech-announces-appointment-of-new-board-member\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GrafTech Announces Appointment of New Board Member - Market Newsdesk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"GrafTech Announces Appointment of New Board Member BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, Ohio&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211; GrafTech International Ltd. 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