Steel producer ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA) said that interim acting CFO Rudolph Torlage had been appointed as full-time CFO and executive director of the company on Friday.

Torlage had been with the company for the past 20 years, heading a number of different divisions. Over the past five years, Trolage had been taking up the role of AMSA company controlling GM, working closely with the company's former CFO, Kobus Verster.

Further, he represents the company as a nonexecutive director on the boards of a number of companies associated with AMSA, and also serves on several committees.

Verster left AMSA on August 23, to take up the position of financial director at JSE-listed construction group Aveng on September 1.