TAKRAF Group, a leading global provider of innovative technological solutions to the mining and associated industries, is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Jabs as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Jabs is a skilled leader with over 20 years of experience in the mining and plant engineering business in various executive and managerial positions. Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Aachen in 1998, Jabs currently lives in Cologne (Germany) and will move to Leipzig where TAKRAF Group has its headquarters.

“Thomas is the right person for TAKRAF,” said Roberto Pancaldi, CEO of the Tenova Group of which TAKRAF is part. “Thomas’s extensive background and business development skills will help TAKRAF strengthen its leadership position in the market. We are confident that he will be a force in developing and driving the Group forward in a very exciting but also challenging time.”

“I am very thrilled to be joining TAKRAF Group,” said Thomas Jabs. “I believe it is a very stimulating moment in the evolving mining environment, and the Group has a solid heritage and a great potential that uniquely position it. I am certainly looking forward to developing the company further with a clear ambition to help our customers reach their goals and to impact the future of mining positively.”