8 November 2024
Severfield
plc
('the
Company' or 'the Group')
Directorate
Change
Appointment of Janice
Crawford as Non-Executive Director
Severfield plc, the market leading
structural steel group, is pleased to announce the appointment of
Janice Crawford as a non-executive director with effect from
25th November 2024. Janice will
also serve on the Company's remuneration, nomination and audit
committees.
Janice Crawford is a Chartered
Engineer and has had a career stretching from an apprentice in a
Glasgow shipyard (where she was the first female apprentice in a
British shipyard) to executive and board posts for international
engineering and project delivery companies. She is a Fellow of the
Institution of Mechanical Engineers and became a Fellow of the
Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013.
Janice has worked in diverse
international companies in the petrochemical, oil and gas, LNG,
mining and pharmaceutical related industries, and up until April
2022, Janice was the Director Global Capital Projects for Johnson
Matthey, the FTSE 100 global science and chemical company. Janice
also served as a Non-Executive Director of the Health and Safety
Executive Board for five years.
Janice is currently a
non-executive director at
National Energy System Operator
Limited, the organisation which
brings together eight activities required to deliver the plans,
markets and operations of the energy system of today and the
future.
Charlie Cornish, Non-Executive Chair,
commented:
"We are pleased to welcome Janice to
the Board of Severfield. She brings a wealth of diverse
international experience in a number of Severfield's key growth
sectors and her proven management skills and strategic, financial
and commercial acumen will be highly beneficial to Severfield as we
continue to grow and diversify."
The Company confirms there is no
further information to be disclosed for the purposes of UKLR
6.4.8.
ENDS
Severfield
Alan Dunsmore
01845 577
896
Chief Executive Officer
Adam
Semple
01845 577 896
Chief Financial Officer
Jefferies International
Will Soutar
020 7029 8000
Panmure Liberum
Nicholas How
020 3100 2000
Camarco
severfield@camarco.co.uk
Ginny Pulbrook
07961 315 138
Tom Huddart
07967 521 573
Notes
to editors:
Severfield is
the UK's market leader in the design, fabrication and
construction of structural steel, with a total capacity of
c.150,000 tonnes of steel per annum. The Group has seven sites,
c.1,900 employees and expertise in large, complex projects across a
broad range of sectors. The Group also has an established presence
in the expanding Indian market through its joint venture
partnership with JSW Steel (India's largest steel
producer).
