TPi May 2016

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■ What’s the most challenging situation you have overcome? When our team became part of what used to be European Tubular Mechanical BU in 2012, some of our plants were in a challenging situation. Our biggest source of pride has been to turn those plants around and make them profitable, through incremental modernisation, redesign of the flow, increased productivity and cost efficiency. Of course there are still improvements to be made and we need to maintain our efforts in this field, but we now have a good basis to make these plants references in our industry. We want to keep the same spirit for the energy plants, which joined our perimeter late 2014. ■ What is your proudest moment? One of our biggest concerns is to improve health and safety. Last year was very difficult for our team as we had several major accidents in our mills, which is always shocking and disappointing. Our main concern is for our employees to be safe. Accordingly, our focus is to change the mindset of our employees so that they take safety into account at all times. It starts from the top; all operational line managers have to become owners of the safety programme. Our greatest source of pride is the great level of commitment shown in our team and I would personally like to thank everyone in Tubular Europe for their dedication and diligence, against all odds. ■ What advice would you give to a young person trying to make it in the industry? Be passionate about your job. Follow your heart, commit to your team and results will follow you.

Jeyachandran Rajasekaran (JC) has a long experience in sales and marketing in the steel industry. He began his sales and marketing career in 1995 with Tube Investments of India Limited as sales manager for CR Steel Sales, which he continued at Tata Iron & Steel Co Ltd, India as customer account manager. He joined ArcelorMittal in 2004 as Chief Marketing Officer in Iasi, Romania. From there his role grew from head of marketing for mechanical Europe to leading the European Sales Network. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer Mechanical & Automotive Europe in 2011 and worked in this position until he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Tubular Products Europe in 2014. JC holds an MBA from Anna University, Chennai, India, and a BSc in engineering – mechanical from Madurai Kamaraj University, India.

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