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Johan van Baarle appointed sales director at DS Smith


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ohan van Baarle has been appointed as sales director of DS Smith’s Paper Division. Reporting to


managing director Niels Flierman, Van Baarle will be responsible for the division’s paper sales across Europe and North America – managing around five million tonnes of paper produced at DS Smith’s mills annually. Van Baarle joins DS Smith


Stora Enso appoints Annette Stube as head of sustainability Annette Stube has been appointed head of sustainability and a member of the Group Leadership Team at Stora Enso, succeeding Noel Morrin, who retires in the end of year.


Danish-born Stube held a similar position in AP Moller-Maersk, an integrated transport and logistics company. Previously she worked as Director of Sustainability programmes in the global healthcare company Novo Nordisk. With a master’s degree in psychology, she also serves on the board of Finnish energy company Fortum. Commenting on the appointment, Stora Enso’s chief executive Annica Bresky said: “I would like to extend my warmest


from Cargill, the global food, agricultural, finance and industrial products provider, where he has worked since 2003. During his time at Cargill Van Baarle gained experience holding a series of senior customer-focused and sales manager roles. Commenting on his new role


Van Baarle said: “I am excited to contribute to DS Smith’s purpose to redefine packaging


thanks to Noel for his valuable and committed work for Stora Enso. He has played an essential role in setting an ambitious sustainability agenda for Stora Enso and taking the group’s sustainability reporting to a high level. We have set ambitious targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and seen good progress in that during the past years.”


Stube said: “I am happy to join


Stora Enso, a true sustainability front-runner. Stora Enso is uniquely positioned as a solution provider in a low-carbon, circular bioeconomy with renewable raw materials, having sustainability at the core of its strategy.”


Syntegon appoints board member for service and digital systems


Annette Stube joins Stora Enso as head of sustainability


September/October 2020


Global process and packaging technology provider Syntegon Technology – formerly the packaging division of the Bosch Group – has appointed Johan Nilsson to its executive board. In the newly created position, Nilsson, 54, is responsible for the new Service and Digital Solutions business unit. Nilsson was most recently head of Service and Industry 4.0 Solutions at Tetra Pak.


for a changing world. I look forward to sharing my experience with the global teams to focus on continued growth by understanding and meeting the demands of our customers. These demands are shifting towards lighter but stronger paper that is both innovative and sustainable in production and product.” Flierman said that van Baarle joins at an exciting time at DS


Pulp Paper & Logistics


Johan van Baarle is sales director at DS Smith


Smith, with an opportunity to play a huge role in replacing hard-to- recycle and single use plastics.


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Johan Nilsson will focus on service and digital solutions at Syntegon


At the beginning of the year,


Syntegon announced that it would focus on intelligent and sustainable technologies, with a special emphasis on services. With this in mind, Syntegon expanded its service activities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic crisis and implemented customer services using digital solutions. Michael Grosse, Syntegon


Technology’s chief executive, said, “Service and digital solutions are two important focal points of our business. With Johan Nilsson we have gained an absolute expert with extensive experience in these areas. He will help Syntegon to position itself even better.”


Marc Wolpers is sales


chief for hygiene at W+D Marc Wolpers has joined Winkler+Dünnebier GmbH as vice


Marc Wolpers has joined Winkler+Dünnebier


group, Winkler+Dünnebier offers integrated system solutions for industries such as mail and postal, and tissue and hygiene. In his new role, Wolpers will manage the sales department of the W+D Hygiene Solutions division, the W+D sales team and sales for BICMA Hygiene Technology in Mayen. Before that, he was sales


director at Trützschler Nonwovens and has extensive professional knowledge of the hygiene industry. Ulrich Wald, who previously held this position, will remain with the company and will concentrate on dealing with key accounts directly.


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