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People (May 01, 2002)

Olof Malmstrm, vice president marketing, Rasio Chemicals and Globa Key Customer manager for Stora Enso, will be joining the RCA management team on a two-year assignment in North America, from Finland. He will be responsible for developing new business with the large Nordic paper groups.

Richard Veinotte has been promoted to manager of Engineering, Madison Paper Industries. He began his career at Madison in 1991.

PAPTAC has announced the names of its 2002 Branch Chairpersons, as follows: Terry Gerhardt, Minas Basin Pulp & Power Co. Ltd. (Atlantic); Eric Landry, Tembec Faramont, St. Leonard, QC (District of Quebec); Daniel Guay, Papiers Perkins, Kingsley Falls, QC (Estrie); Nathalie Morin, Smurfit Stone, La Tuque, QC (Mauricienne); Ajoy Chatterjee, Bowater Pulp & Paper Canada Inc., Thunder Bay, ON (Midwest); Derek Lowe, Domtar, Communication Papers, St. Catharines, ON (Niagara); Scot R. Merriam, Pope & Talbot Ltd., Nanaimo, BC (Pacific Coast); Kenneth Sliger, Produits Forestiers Alliance, Dolbeau, QC (Saguenay- Lac St-Jean); Daniel Lemire, Papiers Masson, Masson-Angers, QC (Ottawa Valley); Susan Kingston, ALPAC, Athabasca, AB (Western).

Dr. Erwin Krauthauf retired from his position at Haindl Paper GmbH, where he served as mill manager and section head since 1992. Rolf Maisch, member of the executive team of Swiss Perlen Paper AG follows Krauthauf as head of INGEDE.