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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. Delta motion stacks up faster. NET PROFIT More throughput. Higher valued product. More profit. RMC75, RMC150 and RMC200 Motion Controllers Cut waste and stack productivity Boost your bottom line. sky-high. An advanced motion 1-2 Axis controller gets you there faster, More throughput and higher valued products will increase easier, smoother. Get your forest net profit. Find out what our product machinery to move faster, customers say, and get specific smoother, and more precisely, Up to 8 Axis enabling higher productivity, examples from our wood processing case studies. improved product quality, and Free Design Guide for servo less wasted raw material. motion control, too. All yours by calling The difference with Delta is Up to 32 Axis measureable. Imagine if you could precisely coordinate multi-axis applications 10X Delta RMC Motion Controller Family 1-360-254-8688 or visiting deltamotion.com faster. Scrap will soon diminish, throughput will rise, and profits will stack up as a result. Delta doesn’t ding you. Pay one price, one time, for hardware, software, firmware, and phone/email support. International Forest Industries | FEBRUARY / MARCH 2018 23