Nico van Niekerk

Chief Executive Officer, Safripol

Nico van Niekerk is Chief Executive Officer of Safripol, in the role since July 2019.

Safripol is a South African polymer producer, with polypropylene and polyethylene at Sasolburg and PET in Durban, owned by the KAP group since 2017. Van Niekerk has spent his career in polymers, joining the company in 1989.

In the job

  1. Van Niekerk was appointed Safripol's chief executive, two years after KAP acquired the company when he was its chief operating officer. Source

  2. Safripol hosted about 70 key customers at its Sasolburg polymer plant, welcomed by Van Niekerk and operations executive Eddie Kotzee. Source

Career before

  1. to 2019Chief operating officer, Safripol
  2. about three and a half yearsStart-up and optimisation of Dow polypropylene plants in Europe and the USA, for Safripol's then owner Dow
  3. Atomic Energy Corporation

Education

BEng (Chemical Engineering), University of Stellenbosch, 1986; MBA and Global Executive Development Programme, GIBS

Sources

  1. safripol.com
  2. kap.co.za
  3. safripol.com
  4. sapt.co.za

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