, Henric Andersson will leave his role as Board Member of Husqvarna AB and CEO of Husqvarna Group, effective immediately. He will remain employed by the Group until March 31st.
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New Forests promotes Jeff Briggs to the role of Managing Director, North America. He will be responsible for driving the overall strategy for New Forests’ North American business.
Mike Olosky joined the company as Chief Operating Officer in 2020 and succeeds Karen Colonias at the CEO position as part of a planned leadership succession.
Goodfellow Inc. announces that Ms. Paule Têtu has informed the Board of Directors that she is resigning effective immediately.
New forestry program will expand manufacturing, create jobs in the British Columbia province, Canada.
Donaldson Timber Engineering Ltd (DTE) has opened its tenth branch in the UK with a new location in Exeter. DTE has recruited a team of 12 for the branch, including Karol Radziejowski who takes up the role of general manager following 3 years as general manager of the Cambridge site.
Rayonier names Mark McHugh President & CFO and Doug Long Executive Vice President & Chief Resource Officer. Mr. McHugh joined the company in 2014 and most recently served as Senior Vice President and CFO.
Tolko Industries announced that downtime at its Soda Creek and Armstrong Lumber divisions will continue through the month of February. These temporary curtailments will reduce production by approximately 35 million board feet of stud lumber.
International Paper plans to invest approximately $103 million to build and operate two natural gas power boilers to generate steam for its containerboard mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This will directly reduce emissions by approximately 25% from the replacement of coal-based steam generators.
Holmen's nomination committee proposes to the AGM the re-election of the current Board members Fredrik Lundberg, who is also proposed for re-election as Chairman of the Board, Lars Josefsson, Alice Kempe, Louise Lindh, Ulf Lundahl, Fredrik Persson, Henrik Sjölund, Henriette Zeuchner and the new election of Carina Åkers...
Louis Bélanger, Université Laval, joins FSC Canada Board of Directors. As a biologist and a forest engineer Bélanger conducts research on the integrated and ecosystem-based management of Quebec's forests. He is also interested in protected areas, their conservation and management. For
Paper Excellence will invest nearly $50 million to upgrade its Crofton mill’s paper operations in British Columbia, Canada. The Company will be working alongside Unifor Local 1132 and PPWC Local 2 at Crofton over the coming days to determine all details regarding the restart plan, including the official restart date in...
Roseburg Forest Products appoints Cory Boydston, the former CFO of Ashton Woods Homes, to the company’s Board of Directors. She replaces former Board member Judith Johansen, who retired from the Roseburg Board in 2022 after several years of dedicated service.
Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation is temporarily suspending operations and reducing staff at its Conway, Arkansas, plant due to a customer contract cancellation.
Enviva Inc. announced the appointments of a Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Sustainability Officer, Chief Administrative and People Officer, and General Counsel.
Mercer International Inc. is planning to take approximately three weeks of downtime its Celgar mill in British Columbia, Canada. This curtailment is expected to commence in March 2023.
HS Timber Group announces that the production capacities of posts and beams (glulam products for house construction in Asia) at the Rădăuți, Romania ,site is expected to be reduced by one third starting 1 April 2023. The production capacity reduction will affect up to 160 employees at the Rădăuți site.
Boise Cascade Company announced the retirement of Rich Viola, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Building Materials Distribution (BMD) division, effective March 1, 2023. Nathan Sikes has been named Sales and Marketing Director, replacing the role that Rich held.
Matti Huttunen has been appointed as the new Managing Director of KPA Unicon Group as of 16 January 2023. He has previously worked as the company’s Chairman of the Board and as the Group’s Chief Strategy Officer since August 2022.
IFP announces promotion of Michael Collins to Senior Vice President. Michael joined IFP in 2008 and has served in a wide variety of roles, including logistics, sales operations and trading.