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Premier Forest Products makes new UK sales director appointment
Andrew Francis has joined Premier Forest Group as its new UK sales director to lead the sales team. As part of this new role, he will help grow both the scale and profitability of the business, across all of the group brands, with both new and existing customers and suppliers. With more than 30 years of experience in the timber industry, Mr Francis brings a wealth of sales and management experience to Premier. He previously worked for Norbord Europe Ltd for over 20 years, progressing from area sales manager to UK & Ireland sales director.
Norbord has long been an important strategic supply partner for Premier Forest Products and his appointment will ensure that relationship remains strong whilst being able to further develop opportunities for the benefit of all parties.
Above: Andrew Francis In his new role, Mr Francis will be tasked New management structure for ETS
Engineered Timber Solutions (ETS) has announced new additions to its management team.
Darren Dolman is the new business development director and brings to the team a wealth of experience and passion for the timber engineering industry. Leah Llewellyn is the new operations manager and will oversee all operational aspects of the business. Primarily focusing on health and safety, human resources, marketing and improving business efficiency, her role is key to sustained and successful growth. Richard Pashley has overseen strong growth in ETS’ metal web joist sales in the last few years. He is now Posi department manager and will continue to maximise the opportunities available in this developing market.
Rob Matthews has been with the company since its inception and is now production manager. He will continue to be
responsible for ETS’s manufacturing and delivery scheduling, stock purchasing and maintaining the five-day delivery promise. Brendon Hayward has been with the design team since 2008. He now takes on the roof design manager position and will ensure that his high standards are achieved across the entire design team. Cat Saxon takes on the role of resource manager. She will be responsible for ensuring customer expectations are met, or exceeded, and will be responsible for co-ordination between the manufacturing and design teams, project allocation, site survey management and enquiry management.
“These appointments will help to push our business forward, whilst ensuring we uphold our commitment to providing excellent customer service, and continue to maintain our rapid five-day delivery lead-time,” said Chris Williams, managing director.
□ Archibald McIntyre, known as Archie, passed away peacefully on January 2 at the age of 97. Having left school at 16 he joined the family business of John McIntyre & Sons, Clyde Saw Mills, Cardross. In 1941 with his father injured and in hospital and his elderly grandfather in shock as a result of a bombing raid on the village, Archie found himself in charge. He was called up in 1943 and at the end of the war carried out National Service in the RAF. Once back at the mill he helped run the business with his father, looking to modernise the machinery and technology. He left the sawmilling side of the business in 1976 but continued buying and selling timber until he retired in 2016 as he approached his 92nd birthday.
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with helping to develop the sales team and leading Premier’s sales operations across the country. “After working alongside Premier Forest Group for over 15 years, I’ve always admired their entrepreneurial attitude and positive, team focused culture, which have helped them reach the strong market position they enjoy today,” said Mr Francis. “I’m looking forward to helping develop the team whilst aiding the business in strengthening their market position across the UK.” “Andrew knows the emphasis we place on product quality and has seen first-hand the excellent customer service that we offer,” said Joe Walker, managing director at Premier Forest Group.
“I am confident that he will be a huge asset to Premier Forest Group and I’m excited to see the success that he will bring to the business and our customers.”
Fagus GreCon researcher award
The Wilhelm-Klauditz Award has been presented to Dr Torben Marhenke, Fagus GreCon’s team lead research and development for research that led to the successful development of a new non-destructive test procedure for recognition of defects with a diameter starting at 1mm.
The award, which includes €5,000 of prize money, is awarded for outstanding scientific or application-oriented work in the area of wood research and environmental protection every three years. When measuring and giving technical determination of mechanical wood parameters of wood materials, nine mechanical parameters are required for clear description of their mechanical material behaviour. The measuring methods developed by Dr Marhenke in the scope of his research permitted non-destructive determination of all nine required parameters reliably and even right in the production process in future. His further development of the air-coupled ultrasound procedure (ACU) meant much smaller defects could be identified down to a 1mm diameter. This procedure used to be able to only recognise defects starting at a size of 25mm x 25mm.
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