Biography

François Lavoie holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in metallurgy from Université Laval. Since graduating, he has worked the iron ore processing. He joined the Quebec Iron Ore, a Champion Iron subsidiary, team in May 2017 and was heavily involved in the Bloom Lake Phase 1 concentrator restart and was responsible for the process portion of the Phase 2 expansion feasibility study. He later joined Champion’s corporate team to focus on products, projects, and markets development to deploy Champion’s strategy to support steelmakers in their emissions reduction initiatives. François currently holds the role of Vice-President sales, technical marketing and products development and is responsible for evaluating and developing new approaches to further bonify our high purity iron products to support steelmaking decarbonisation initiatives globally.