Thomas Chalkidis has been appointed new Managing Director for Metacon's daughter company Helbio S.A. in Patras, Greece. At the same time, he assumes the role as Head of Reforming Technologies within Metacon Group. Thomas Chalkidis takes over the leadership of Helbio after Professor Xenophon Verykios who retires after a long, successful scientific and entrepreneurial career in the field of catalytic steam reforming and related process chemical fields. Prof. Verykios is the founder of Helbio and the inventor behind several patented technologies, constituting an important part of Metacon Group's intellectual property. Having served for more than eighteen years within Helbio under Prof. Verykios leadership, Thomas Chalkidis most recently comes from a role as Chief Operating Officer.