Munzer Ghosh has been appointed plant manager for Lafarge North America's Whitehall cement plant. For the past three years, Ghosh led the company's facility in Atlanta.

A New York native, Ghosh holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Engineering Management from Syracuse University. He joined Lafarge as a manufacturing project manager in the Southeast Region, where he managed a capital process, strategic planning, and feasibility studies for the region.

Ghosh replaces Michael Klenk, who left Whitehall to take the reigns of Lafarge's Bath, Ontario, plant, home of the company's largest North American kiln. The Bath plant is pursuing a permit to use tire-derived fuel, and Klenk brings much experience in this alternate fuel technology from Whitehall.

Established in 1899, the Whitehall facility is the oldest operating Lehigh Valley cement plant in existence. Since 1993, its tire-derived fuel program has reduced plant emissions, conserved nonrenewable coal fuel, and eliminated and recovered energy from 21 million tires.