Gheorghe Dobra, the general manager of Alro Slatina, has recently been appointed executive member of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Vimetco. He will hold this position until the next meeting of the company’s Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, to be organized this year, according to a statement from the company.

Gheorghe Dobra has been Alro Slatina’s general manager since January 1993. See his CV here.

Alro is a subsidiary of aluminum producer Vimetco, with major production assets in Romania, Sierra Leone and China, and a holding company in The Netherlands. Alro is one of the largest aluminum production facilities in Central and Eastern Europe measured by volume, with an installed production capacity of 265,000 tonnes per year.

In the first nine months of 2011, Alro posted a turnover of around EUR 404 million (RON 1.7 billion) and a net profit of EUR 52.7 million (RON 222 million), according to the company.

Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com

(photo source: Alro.ro)