Oct 09, 2006. /Lesprom Network/. Eero Auranne has been appointed as the new manager for the process division. He will take up his new position on 9 October 2006. At the same time, Eero Auranne will also become a member of the ÅF Group's senior management team. The process division employs slightly more than 1 000 of ÅF's 3 500 employees in twelve countries. Business focuses on consulting services for the energy and pulp & paper markets. Mr. Eero was previously the manager for the division's energy business area and a member of the divisional management team. Eero Auranne (47) has a degree in engineering from Helsinki University of Technology. After 19 years with IVO, which included two years in London and five in Kuala Lumpur, Mr. Eero was made managing director for Fortum Service and a vice president in Fortum. In 2002 he became MD for Enprima (partly owned by Fortum), which ÅF acquired at the beginning of 2006. Under Mr. Eero's leadership Enprima was transformed into a profitable energy consulting company and one of the leading names in the industry in Finland, Russia and the Baltic states. Mr. Eero will now continue with and intensify the work of rapidly improving profitability in the process division. "I am delighted that Eero has accepted this challenge and the role as the new manager for the process division," says Jonas Wiström, president and CEO of the ÅF Group, "Eero has all the qualities of a good leader and a proven track record of his ability to create stable results - even in adverse market conditions. He also brings with him to his new position extensive experience of the international energy market." Claes-Inge Isacson, the former manager for the process division, has resigned his position at his own request. The ÅF Group combines cutting-edge expertise in IT and engineering, innovative thinking and state-of-the-art technology with a century of close contact with Swedish industry. Most of the projects come from the energy and environmental sector, the pulp and paper industry, or deal with the development of systems and products and the design of installations and infrastructure technology.