The General Assembly of SIGRAUTO (Spanish Association for the Environmental Treatment of End-of-Life Vehicles) has elected Ernesto Salas Hernández as the new President, who will occupy the position, replacing Carlos Mataix Kubusch, who has held the position since 24th September 24 2007.
Ernesto Salas is an Industrial Engineer from UPM and an MBA from IE. He has developed a large part of his career at Renault Spain until reaching the position of Director of Institutional Relations, which he held from 2006 until leaving the Renault Group in 2022. He has extensive experience in the automotive sector, in the world of business associations and University. He has been, among other positions, vice president of the Castilla y León Automotive Cluster (FACYL), a member of the Executive Board of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the Social Council of the University of Valladolid.
Ernesto Salas (left) and Carlos Mataix (right)
Ernesto Salas has declared:
“I consider that this handover occurs at a very important moment since the European Commission is about to start the processing of a new Regulation on the management of vehicles at the end of their useful life, 20 years after the publication of the Directive. I face this challenge with great enthusiasm and with the aim that Spain continues to be a benchmark in this field in the European Union.”
The members of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly of SIGRAUTO expressed their gratitude for the work carried out by Carlos Mataix as president of the Association in the last 15 years, where he has played a fundamental role thanks to his conciliatory spirit that has allowed consensus to be found among the sectors represented in SIGRAUTO are vehicle manufacturers and importers, scrappers and fragmentation and post-fragmentation facilities.
