ZCL Composites Inc.announced that it has appointed Rene Aldana as Chief Operating Officer, effective January 19, 2016.

“Rene is a strong and experienced operator who will help ZCL increase efficiency and advance our profitable growth,” said Ron Bachmeier, President & CEO of ZCL. “I am pleased to welcome him aboard.”

Mr. Aldana has deep experience in management, strategic and tactical leadership, process automation and optimization, operations technologies, talent development, efficiency and productivity improvements, M&A integration and other areas that will benefit ZCL. He was formerly Managing Director and President of Yokogawa Canada, a Calgary-based subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, which is active globally in the industrial automation and control (IA), test and measurement, and other businesses segments. Prior to Yokogawa, Mr. Aldana worked in successively senior positions for Paris-based Schneider Electric and Telvent, which Schneider Electric acquired in 2011. From 2010 to 2013 he was Vice President of Schneider Electric’s Oil and Gas International Division in Calgary.