December 02, 2008

LKAB appoints Mr Heyden as VP Market Division

Swedish mineral producer LKAB announced that Mr Johan Heyden has been appointed as VP Market Division of LKAB with placement at the group head office in Luleå. He would assume his new position on December 1st 2007 when Mr Bengt Hjärpe, who is currently VP Market Division, retires.

Mr Johan graduated with an MSc in mechanical engineering, specializing in material science and material engineering, from Luleå University of Technology in 1988. He was employed by LKAB 1996 and has worked, in among other positions, as Sales Manager for LKAB Nordic region. Since July 1st 2005, Mr Johan has been VP of LKAB Far East Pte Ltd in Singapore.

LKAB is an international high tech minerals group, one of the world’s leading producers of upgraded iron ore products for the steel industry and a growing supplier of industrial minerals products to other sectors. LKAB has subsidiaries and facilities for industrial minerals in Sweden, Finland, Greenland, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Turkey, Thailand, Hong Kong, China and the USA. LKAB’s chief assets are the magnetite ore of the Orefields of northern Sweden. Most of the iron ore products are sold to European steel mills. Other important markets are North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Industrial minerals are sold mainly in Europe, but businesses are growing in Asia and the USA.