Korn named president of Apeal

Christian Korn is the new president of the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (Apeal).

Korn, previously vice president commercial of US Steel Košice, succeeds Robert Beltz, who returned to the US in July 2012. Korn’s election provides continuity in both Apeal’s presidency under US Steel Košice and Apeal’s current mission of ensuring the widespread understanding of steel as a sustainable packaging solution.

Korn has extensive experience in the steel business. He started his career in 1982 with the pipe division of the building products group of Saint Gobain. He joined Usinor (now ArcelorMittal) in 1988, where he held several positions in sales and as managing director of service centres in Germany, France and Benelux.

In 2002, Korn joined the executive board of ThyssenKrupp Stahl Service Center GmbH (Langenfeld, Germany), a business unit leading ThyssenKrupp’s flat carbon steel service center activities in Europe, where he soon became chairman of the executive board. In 2009, he joined Essar Steel Europe and was responsible for creating and developing the company’s European sales organisation.

Korn graduated from University of Tubingen, Germany with a German Law Degree in 1979. He also studied Business Administration at the University for World Trade in Vienna, Austria.

Apeal is a federation of four multi-national producers of steel for packaging (ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel Packaging, ThyssenKrupp Rasselstein, US  Steel Košice).