Gypsum industry news

Oman: Kunooz Oman Holdings has appointed Scott Watson as its new general manager for Al Rawas Mining Co. Watson is a mining engineer who graduated from the Camborne School of Mines with a BSc in Mining and a master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Ulster in 2006.

Watson has previously worked for four years as a general manager at Yeoman Halsvik, a subsidiary of LafargeHolcim, producing and shipping aggregates to northern European and other offshore markets. Prior to this he was a senior manager at Lagan Group in Ireland, the UK and Poland working on aggregates for road surfaces. He has also worked as a mining engineer with Anglo American Corp in South Africa.