RICHMOND, BC, July 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – The Paper Excellence Workforce (Paper Excellence) these days introduced its up to date organizational construction for its industry gadgets following the hot acquisitions of Resolute Wooded area Merchandise in March 2023 and Domtar in November 2021.
Steve Henry, lately Domtar’s Govt Vice President and Leader Running Officer, has been named President of the Paper & Packaging industry unit with duty for all legacy Domtar pulp, paper and packaging operations in addition to Paper Excellence Canada’s Port Alberni and Crofton turbines. Mr. Henry is an skilled pulp and paper government with 28Â years of trade experience. His occupation has spanned various roles in technique, venture control, and common control in company and mill environments. Previous to becoming a member of Domtar, Mr. Henry held a sequence of modern positions with World Paper, Weyerhaeuser and Georgia-Pacific.
The chief of the Pulp & Tissue industry unit consisting of all legacy Resolute pulp, paper and tissue operations in addition to the non-integrated Paper Excellence Canada pulp turbines will probably be introduced at a later date. Richard Tremblay will proceed to function Senior Vice President, pulp, paper and tissue operations, and John Lafave will function Senior Vice President, pulp and tissue gross sales. Mr. Tremblay and Mr. Lafave will function co-leaders of the industry unit till an enduring chief is known as.
Hugues Simon will proceed to function President of the Wooden Merchandise industry unit. Mr. Simon has intensive revel in in wooden merchandise operations, finance and gross sales with Resolute and its predecessor firms.
Steve Henry, Richard Tremblay, John Lafave and Hugues Simon will report back to the Paper Excellence control board, chaired by way of Non-Govt Chairman John Williams, former President and Leader Govt Officer of Domtar.
“My heartfelt congratulations to Steve, Richard, John and Hugues. Every of them brings intensive revel in, demonstrated good fortune, and a dedication to steady growth,” stated Mr. Williams. “We’ve got assembled an outstanding staff of industrial leaders who’re uniquely certified to ship awesome effects and place the group for endured expansion.”
Resolute’s Remi G. Lalonde, President and Leader Govt Officer; Sylvain A. Girard, Senior Vice President and Leader Monetary Officer; and Stephanie Leclaire, Senior Vice President, company affairs and Leader Criminal Officer, have made up our minds to go away the group on September 1, 2023, to pursue different pursuits. Messrs. Lalonde and Girard and Ms. Leclaire will obtain change-in-control bills and advantages pursuant to their respective agreements with Resolute.
“I’m very happy with the paintings the staff has executed since I took over as President and CEO, and deeply venerated to have had the privilege to function their chief. Now that Resolute is a part of a personal corporate, the time is true for me to cross alongside to the person industry unit leaders extra of the obligations to control their companies and take their efficiency to the following stage within the Paper Excellence circle of relatives. I’d additionally like to specific my appreciation for the exceptional contributions of Sylvain and Stephanie who’ve performed an instrumental function in Resolute’s transformation,” said Mr. Lalonde.
“Resolute and all its superb folks, previous and provide, will at all times have an excessively particular position in my center, as I deeply cherish the recollections from 14 years in combination. I’m extraordinarily thankful for the whole lot the corporate has executed for me, and I sincerely want Paper Excellence and its leaders not anything however the most efficient with our wonderful folks and nice property. This trade, specifically in Canada, can take pleasure in a strategic investor with a generational imaginative and prescient like Paper Excellence, keen to reinforce it by way of deploying capital to liberate totally its true doable, and they’ve made that goal transparent. That is excellent for Resolute’s staff, our turbines and our communities,” added Mr. Lalonde.
“We categorical our deep gratitude to Remi for his remarkable management and transformative achievements, that have made Resolute a more potent, extra dynamic and aggressive group. We’re delighted to give you the chance to construct at the remarkable basis that he and his staff have established for the industry,” remarked Mr. Williams. “On a non-public stage and on behalf of the Paper Excellence control board, we would like Remi, Sylvain and Stephanie nice good fortune within the subsequent chapters in their careers.”
About The Paper Excellence Workforce
The Paper Excellence Workforce is a privately held producer of pulp, paper, packaging, tissue, and wooden merchandise, with a group of workers of greater than 21,300 in its just about 60 places around the Americas and Europe. The Workforce produces just about 12.4 million heaps of pulp, paper, and packaging once a year and has an annual manufacturing capability of just about 3.2Â billion board ft of lumber and different wooden merchandise. Thru its particular person industry gadgets, Paper Excellence Canada Holdings Company, Domtar Company, and Resolute Wooded area Merchandise Inc., the Workforce leverages its operational excellence and sustainable high quality, cost-effective merchandise to fulfill and exceed the wishes and expectancies of its consumers around the globe.Â
About Domtar
Domtar is a number one supplier of all kinds of fiber-based merchandise together with conversation, distinctiveness and packaging papers, marketplace pulp and airlaid nonwovens. With roughly 6,200Â staff serving greater than 50 nations around the globe, Domtar is pushed by way of a dedication to show sustainable wooden fiber into helpful merchandise that individuals depend on on a daily basis. Domtar’s essential government administrative center is in Fortress Mill, South Carolina and Domtar is a part of the Paper Excellence crew of businesses. To be told extra, talk over with www.domtar.com.
About Paper Excellence Canada
Paper Excellence, headquartered in British Columbia, is a diverse producer of pulp and distinctiveness, printing, writing, and packaging papers that owns 10 amenities in Canada generating over 2.5 million tonnes once a year with a group of workers of greater than 2,100. Paper Excellence is happy to paintings in partnership with communities the place we perform as a big employer of selection and marketplace chief. To be told extra, talk over with www.paperexcellence.com.
About Resolute Wooded area Merchandise
Resolute Wooded area Merchandise is a number one manufacturer of a various vary of wooden, pulp, tissue and paper merchandise, that are advertised in 60 nations. The corporate operates some 40 amenities, in addition to energy era property, in the USA and Canada and has third-party qualified 100% of its controlled woodlands to across the world identified sustainable wooded area control requirements. Resolute has gained regional, North American and international popularity for its management in company social duty and sustainable construction, in addition to for its industry practices. Headquartered in Montreal (Quebec), the corporate is a part of the Paper Excellence Workforce. To be told extra, talk over with www.resolutefp.com.
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