Acerinox names new North American Stainless CEO

Spain-based metals producer the Acerinox Group has announced that Cristóbal Fuentes will step down as CEO of North American Stainless (NAS), a wholly-owned Acerinox subsidiary that operates a recycled-content stainless steel mill in Ghent, Kentucky.

Fuentes will remain in a senior advisor position at NAS to help welcome metals industry veteran Clive Grannum as the new CEO of NAS.

Fuentes, who has been the CEO of NAS since 2010, will cease his executive functions May 21 after a 44-year career with Acerinox.

Since 2018, Grannum has been leading the Performance Materials business unit of Mayfield Heights, Ohio-based Materion, formerly known as Brush Engineered Materials Inc. Materion is a global producer of specialty alloy products, clad metals, beryllium-based metals and ceramics, metal matrix composites, niobium-hafnium rare earth metals and tantalum materials.

Before joining Materion in 2018, Grannum was president of the Global Chlorinated Organics business at Clayton, Missouri-based Olin. He also has served in executive roles at the Dow Chemical Co., Rohm and Haas, the BOC Group and the ICI Group.

“We are extremely excited about this new incorporation, and we look forward to having Clive Grannum on the team,” Acerinox Group CEO Bernardo Velázquez says. “Without a doubt, he will reinforce the integration of our operations in the United States and he will also contribute to the implementation of our strategic plan.”