Miki Lagers is a competent and well-rounded sales expert with 20 years of experience defining and optimizing commercial skills in various occupational areas. He has displayed the ability to combine an excellent sales strategy with the capability of knowledge of the human nature of different cultures. He joined the more than-century-old Netherlands-based Gouda Refractories as Sales Manager in April 2022.

His ability to work collegially with team members and leaders across business units and lines of business drives and promotes organizational change whilst embedding governance principles to move the organization up the functional excellence curve.

AL Circle: Can you provide a brief overview of Gouda Refractories and its role in the secondary aluminium industry?