31
January 2025
Board
Appointment
Spirax Group plc, the leading global
thermal energy management and fluid technology solutions Group, is
pleased to announce the appointment of Maria Antoniou as an
Independent Non-Executive Board Director and Chair of the
Remuneration Committee, with effect from 1 June 2025.
Maria currently holds the position
of Group HR Director of Morgan Advanced Materials plc. She has
extensive international human resources experience including seven
years as Senior VP HR at E.ON, based in Germany, and has held
senior HR leadership roles at Ford Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover
and Transport for London, all of which have involved complex
transformation and change programmes.
Maria will succeed Jane Kingston, a
Non-Executive Director since 2016, who will step down from the
Board on 30 September. Therefore, Jane will be standing for
re-election at the Company's 2025 Annual General Meeting in
May.
Tim Cobbold, Chair, commented: "I am
delighted that we will be welcoming Maria to the Board of Directors
of Spirax Group in June. In this role, Maria will combine her
strong human resources, strategic and transformation experience
with her knowledge of large, global organisations, to support the
ongoing sustainable growth and success of our Group.
"On behalf of the entire Board, I
would like to express our sincere thanks to Jane for her
contributions over many years. As Remuneration Committee Chair,
Jane has modernised our remuneration structures, enabling the Group
to attract and retain executive talent that is vital to the
evolution of Group, while effectively balancing this with the needs
of external stakeholders. When Jane steps down from the Board
later this year, she will leave with our sincere appreciation and
best wishes for the future. In the meantime, we look forward to her
continued support over the coming months which will include a
thorough handover to Maria."
Maria Antoniou's appointment is part of the succession planning undertaken by
the Nomination Committee to recruit Non-Executive Directors with
the skills and experience required to support the implementation of
the Group's Together for Growth Strategy.
There are no further disclosures to
be made pursuant to UKLR 6.4.6R and 6.4.8R.
For
further information:
Celine Barroche, General Counsel and
Company Secretary
+44 (0) 1242 535 276
Media
Martin Robinson, Teneo:
+44 (0) 20 7260 2700
spiraxgroup@teneo.com
About Spirax Group
Spirax Group is positioned to play a
critical role in enabling the industrial transition to net zero,
aligned to our Purpose to create sustainable value for all our
stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable
world. We put solving customers' problems at the heart of our
'total solutions' approach. Our global thermal energy and fluid
technology solutions improve operating efficiency and safety in our
customers' critical industrial processes. Our decarbonisation
solutions use proprietary technologies to eliminate scope 1 and 2
greenhouse gas emissions* by electrifying boilers for the raising
of steam, as well as the electrification of other critical
industrial process heating applications.
Spirax Group comprises three strong
and aligned Businesses: Steam Thermal Solutions helps customers
control and manage steam within their mission critical industrial
applications, such as cleaning, sterilising, cooking and
heating. We are helping to put food safely on the world's
tables and keeping our hospitals running. Electric Thermal
Solutions has proprietary technologies that deliver electrification
solutions at scale in industrial settings, including for the
raising of steam, supporting our customers to achieve their net
zero goals. We also deliver freeze protection and defrost solutions
critical to aviation and space industries and ensure thermal
uniformity in Semiconductor chip manufacturing to power the
critical electronic systems we rely on. Watson‐Marlow Fluid
Technology Solutions is optimising the efficient use of resources
and supporting advancements in global health, such as lifesaving
vaccines and gene therapies.
Spirax Group is headquartered in
Cheltenham (UK). We have 37 strategically located manufacturing
plants around the world and are committed to creating a safe and
inclusive working culture for our 10,000 colleagues, operating in
66 countries and serving 110,000 customers globally. The
Company's shares have been listed on the London Stock Exchange
since 1959 (symbol: SPX) and we are a constituent of the FTSE 100
and the FTSE4Good Indexes.
*When connected to a green
electricity source.
