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LUMBER PROCESSING NEWS
Resolute Forest Products appoints Yves Laflamme as President
and CEO, succeeding Richard Garneau
Resolute Forest Products Inc. appoints Yves
Laflamme as Resolute’s new president and
CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors,
succeeding Richard Garneau.
Mr. Laflamme currently serves as senior vice
president, Wood Products, Global Procurement
and Information Technology for Resolute. He
is a 37-year veteran of the industry, as well as
Resolute and its predecessor companies.
Mr. Laflamme began his career in Finance
working at Donohue Inc.’s Saint-Félicien
integrated pulp mill and wood products
operations in 1981, and moved on to serve
as controller for the company’s integrated
newsprint and wood products facilities in the
Abitibi region of Quebec.
Over the past 15 years, he held a series of
RemaSawco
receives an order
from Vika Wood’s
sawmill in Latvia
RemaSawco receives an order
for SEK 6.3 million ($770,538)
from Vika Wood SIA in
Latvia. The order comprises
a complete system for
optimisation, quality sorting
and strength grading to be installed in the new
dry sorter being built at the Vika Wood’s sawmill.
The software includes RS-BoardScannerQ with
additions RS-StrengthGrader and RS-EndSorter.
Commissioning is planned for August-September
2018.
Together with this project, RemaSawco will
upgrade the log sorting station. Amongst other
things, the ergonomic operator’s chair RS-
FlexCon will be added.
”We are very happy and proud that Vika
Wood has chosen RS-BoardScannerQ to be a
part of their new high performance dry sorter.
RemaSawco and Vika Wood have a long history
of close cooperation, which is now further
strengthened and deepened,” says Johan
Friberg, Managing Director of Image Systems.
“It is also satisfying that we, after our
success in Estonia, are breaking new ground in
the Baltic countries with Vika Wood and our first
delivery to Latvia,” Johan Friberg continues.
RemaSawco is a modern, innovative and
original company working within the sawmill
industry. The products consist of sophisticated
measurement techniques covering the entire
process from log sorters to dry sorters and
planers.
successive roles as vice president and senior
vice president, covering the overall wood
products business, including both Operations
and Sales, as well as the company’s former
Recycling business.
Over the past several years, Mr. Laflamme
expanded his scope to also include a wide
range of corporate support functions, including
IT and Global Procurement, among others.
Mr. Laflamme currently serves as chairman of
Resolute-LP Engineered Wood joint ventures,
a Board member of Toundra Greenhouse, an
Executive team member of the Quebec Forest
Yves Laflamme
President & CEO
Industry Council, and is a past chairman of the
Canadian Wood Council. He is a CPA (CMA),
after pursuing his university education in
administration and finance.
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