CEI-Bois elected its new board

Dr Erich Wiesner (Owner and Managing Director of WIEHAG AG, Chairman of the Austrian Federation of the Woodworking and Furniture Industries) was elected Vice-Chairman and Mr Vítor Poças (Industrialist, President of AIMMP, the Portuguese Association of Woodworking & Furniture Industries) was re-elected Vice-Chairman.
 
Additionally to Mess.rs Ek, Michielsen, Wiesner and Poças, the CEI-Bois Board of Directors for the next two-year period includes:

– Mr Sampsa Auvinen (CEO Norvik Timber, Chairman of EOS, the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industries)
– Mr Filip De Jaeger (Deputy Director-General of Fedustria, the Belgian Federation of Woodworking & Furniture Industries)
– Mr Markku Herrala (Director Stakeholder relations UPM Plywood, Finland)
– Dr Mathias Schäfer (Managing Director of FingerHaus GmbH e. al., Germany)
–  Mr Bert Kattenbroek

Outgoing CEI‐Bois Chairman Marc Michielsen congratulated Mr Anders Ek for his election as the new Chairman and expressed his best wishes to the new Board. The General Assembly expressed its gratitude to the outgoing Chairman Mr Michielsen and Board members Mess.rs Arto Juvonen and Måns Johansson. During the General Assembly, Mr Patrizio Antonicoli was confirmed as CEI-Bois Secretary General.