Dr. Eng. André R. Teissier-duCros
Publisher of The ENAL Newsletter
Dr. André Teissier-duCros, Publisher of The ENAL Newsletter, is recognized as one of the world's leading strategic consultants in the primary aluminum industry and its suppliers of smelting technology, engineering services, machinery and equipment. His clients and ex-clients are often world leaders on their markets and are located in North America, Europe and Asia. He holds a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Sciences. He has been instrumental in approximately 60 acquisitions or joint ventures, most often across borders, always between manufacturers of industrial goods.
Since 1992, We publish the ENALNewsletter, an Internet confidential letter publishing a permanent, revolving 10-year forecast on investments and trends in the primary aluminum industry, the alumina industry, and energy projects linked to these industries. The website www.enalnewsletter.com is visited 100 times a day in late 2004. ENALNewsletter has grown 40% per year since its inception and is now a recognized authority, with subscribers in Industry, Government and Financial Institutions.
Since 1980, Dr. André Teissier-duCros specialized his consulting practice in global strategies for the primary and secondary metals industry, notably steel and light metals, and for the middle-sized manufacturer of industrial products offering to these industries advanced materials, specialized components, additives and ingredients, capital goods such as industry specific machinery, engineering services and process equipment & controls, etc. Half of his firm's activity is related to the primary aluminum industry since 1989.
André Teissier-duCros' experience in corporate development covers search, assessment and negotiation of acquisitions and joint ventures; "turn around" management; search of partners and investors; financial engineering for an existing business, a foreign subsidiary, a start-up or an export venture; market research and strategic analysis; viability assessment and feasibility studies.
Dr. Teissier-duCros' consulting activities involved corporations and organizations such as Century Aluminum, Hoogovens Aluminium, National Southwire Aluminum (NSA), Aluminium Pechiney, Alusaf, Noranda Inc., Egyptalum, Alumax, BellSouth, Aluminium Industries of Malaysia, Hindalco Industries, Egyptalum, Toth Aluminum, Michelin Tires, Honeywell, Peugeot S.A., Lyonnaise des Eaux, ENI Group, Lafarge Group, General Mills, Engelhard Corporation, Framatome (now AREVA), l'Air Liquide, Kawasaki Steel, and Rockwell Auto Components. Also, mid-size machinery manufacturers such as ECL S. A. (Aluminium Pechiney), Gauder Group, UBS Tianjin Machinery, Techmo Car SpA, Brochot S. A., ASC Machine-Tools, Franrica Mfg (FMC), SERMAS Industries, Washtec AG, SSI Corporation, ANVAR (French Government Agency for Industrial Innovation).. His assignments lead to new business strategies, market share increase, innovative products, and capture of other competitive advantages.
His industrial experience covers industrial machinery, ferrous and non-ferrous metals with an on-going experience in primary aluminum smelting, steel metallurgy, steel coil conversion, energy generation & distribution, petroleum refining, basic and specialty chemicals, fermentation & bio-engineering, aerospace, housing and construction, food processing and conditioning, water & wastewater treatment.
In 1972, Dr. Teissier-duCros founded in Europe I.D. Conseil, a consulting firm which specialized in "external growth": Corporate Strategy, M&A, Commercial Development, Technology and R&D Management. It was in 1983 that Dr. Teissier-duCros transferred his consulting activities from Paris, France to Atlanta, Georgia.
In 1966, Dr. Teissier-duCros joined as V.P. Business Development Compagnie Europeenne de Publications (C.E.P.), a major publisher of trade periodicals in France. C.E.P. recruited him because they were acquiring the monthly tabloid on new products and processes, which was his hobby when a student. He was instrumental until 1972 in major acquisitions of C.E.P. His continued interest in industrial innovation led him to be appointed as Secretary to the I.D.E.E. Foundation (Barthalon Commission, 1967-1972), which was involved in recommending national policies that were later applied by the French government.
From 1962 to 1966, Dr. Teissier-duCros was with Automatisme & Technique S.A., a French SPM manufacturer best known in the world for its invention of continuous motion machinery now applied to all mass produced consumables and disposables. He was instrumental in the negotiations of the initial U.S. license for continuous motion machinery to the ammunition industry (Olin Mathieson's Winchester Division, in 1966).
Born of French and Scottish parents, a Huguenot on the French side, U.S. citizen since 1988, André Teissier-duCros obtained his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from C.E.S.T.I. (French Institute for Industrial Production & Mechanical Engineering, 1961) and a Ph.D. degree in materials Sciences from I.S.M.C.M. (Advanced Institute for Industrial & Mechanical Materials, 1963).
He was from 1988 to 1999 President of the U.S. Southeast Chapter of the French Foreign Trade Advisors (C.C.E.F.), and from 1994 to 2001 Adjunct Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Management, where he teached the course on Strategic Competitiveness Assessment.
He is a member of the Commercial Development Association, of the Civil Air Patrol, and an FAA-licensed IFR private pilot.