Harvard graduate and former UPM-Kymmene Strategy Executive Vice President, Heikki Malinen, has been appointed as Pöyry President and CEO. Malinen will take up the position on June 1, 2008. He replaces Erkki Pehu-Lehtonen.
In the past ten years Pöyry has become a major player in the consulting and engineering sector under Pehu-Lehtonen’s leadership. The company has […]

 Research in Australia showing that Murray River flows are strongly impacted by bushfires has vindicated calls for conservation forests to be actively managed to reduce the frequency and severity of major bushfires.
Research by scientists at the CSIRO Forest Biosciences has found that the 2003 bushfires could reduce flows into the Murray River by more than […]

 Pöyry has divested its French subsidiary Pöyry Energy (Strasbourg) and sold its 100% ownership in the company for to €600,000 because the subsidiary’s profile and product portfolio is not in line with the current strategy of Pöyry’s Energy business group.
The company’s annual net sales are about €2.5 million and it is debt-free. As the effective […]

Chinese authorities this week unveiled a reforestation plan to plant 2.5 billion trees covering more than 5.3 Mha in 2008, China’s top forest management official said yesterday.Last year, the country increased its forest coverage by 5.2 Mha, equivalent to 2.27 billion trees. It produced forest goods valued at about 1.2 trillion yuan, 9.85% more than in […]

Tembec has suffered reduced production because of a reduced work week, both at its Elko sawmill and its corresponding planer mill.The company will tolerate a similar situation at its Canal Flats sawmill and corresponding planer mill starting next week. Over the next three months, Tembec will take the equivalent of three weeks of production downtime, […]

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