Salvador Lamas takes the helm at Mersen as Chief Executive Officer
Mersen has announced the appointment of Salvador Lamas as Chief Executive Officer, effective today. He succeeds Luc Themelin, who has been elected Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors for the remainder of his term.
This move is part of the governance transition plan announced in July 2025. Since then, Luc Themelin and Salvador Lamas have utilized this period to ensure a progressive, seamless, and effective handover.
Salvador Lamas joined Mersen in July 2021 as a Business Unit Vice President, where he spearheaded the development of the Solutions for Power Management business within the Electrical Power segment. He had been serving as Deputy Chief Executive Officer since March 2025.
Luc Themelin served as Chief Executive Officer of the Mersen group from May 2016 to May 2026, following his tenure as Chairman of the Management Board from August 2011 to May 2016. He first joined the industrial group in 1993, starting his career as an R&D engineer.
Global Expert in electrical specialties and graphite-based materials, Mersen designs innovative solutions to address its client's specific needs to enable them to optimize their manufacturing process in sectors such as energy, transportation, electronics, chemical, pharmaceutical and process industries. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- advanced materials (51.7%): graphite anticorrosion equipment (world No. 1), brushes and brushholders for industrial electric motors (world No. 1), and high-temperature applications of isostatic graphite (world No. 2);
- electrical power (48.3%): solutions for energy management (namely power electronics; world No. 1 supplier of passive components for power electronics), electric protection and monitoring (world No. 2 in industrial fuses manufacturing) and current collection for the rail market (world No. 1).
At the end of 2025, the group had 54 manufacturing sites worldwide.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (8.2%), Europe (24.5%), North America (43%), Asia/Pacific (20.9%) and other (3.4%).
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