Valmet Appoints Petri Paukkunen Area President, Asia Pacific Area
KEILASATAMA, Finland — Petri Paukkunen has been appointed area president, Asia Pacific area at Valmet, beginning April 1, 2021. Paukkunen is currently employed as vice president, board and paper mills business unit in Valmet’s paper business line. He will be a member of Valmet’s executive team and reports to President and CEO Pasi Laine.
Paukkunen is a sales and general management professional who started his career with Valmet in 1991. He has an extensive background in board and paper production-related process technology development, product management, and sales and customer relationship management. In the past couple of years, Paukkunen has successfully grown Valmet’s largest process technology business unit, board and paper mills BU, managing more than 1,200 professionals around the world.