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Reduced SSAB Group Executive Committee
SSAB is making changes in the support functions of its Group Executive Committee. Carl Orrling has been appointed as a new member of SSAB’ s Group Executive Committee, which will be reduced from eleven to nine members.
“ I’ m making these changes to create a smaller and more efficient team. Our focus will be on further strengthening the business, improving the product mix and transforming our Nordic production system”, confirmed Johnny Sjöström, President and CEO of SSAB. Carl Orrling has been appointed EVP CTO with responsibility for the Transformation Office and will become a new member of SSAB’ s Group Executive Committee.
“ Carl has extensive and solid experience in the steel industry and is a key figure in the effort to establish our new state-of-theart steel plant in Luleå as we phase out the current blast furnace-based production system. I am very pleased that he is now joining our Group Executive Committee,” added Johnny Sjöström.
Christina Friborg( SVP Sustainability, Ethics & Compliance, Health & Safety), Eva Petursson( SVP Research & Innovation) and Lars Sjöbring( SVP General Counsel) will retain their responsibilities and continue to report to Johnny Sjöström. However, they will no
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longer be members of the Group Executive Committee.
Martin Pei, the former EVP CTO, will become a Senior Advisor with a focus on securing raw material supplies for the new fossil-free steel plants. He will continue to represent SSAB as Chairman of the Board of Hybrit Development AB and will still report to Johnny Sjöström.
These changes took effect on 1 April 2025. The new Group Executive Committee will consist of:
■ Johnny Sjöström – President and CEO of SSAB
■ Leena Craelius – EVP Chief Financial Officer
■ Per Elfgren – EVP Head of SSAB Special Steels
■ Tony Harris – EVP Head of SSAB Europe
■ Chuck Schmitt – EVP Head of SSAB Americas
■ Maria Långberg – EVP Organisation and Culture
■ Helena Norrman – EVP Communications
■ Carl Orrling – EVP CTO and Head of the Transformation Office
■ Viktor Strömberg- EVP Strategy and Digitalisation.
SSAB is a specialised global steel company which develops high-strength steels and provides services for better performance and sustainability. The company is a leading producer on the global market for Advanced High-Strength Steels( AHSS) and Quenched & Tempered Steels( Q & T), strip, plate and tubular products, as well as construction solutions. n
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Mazak strengthens UK sales structure
Yamazaki Mazak has strengthened its UK sales organisation through the creation of a series of new roles aimed at increasing customer touch points and expanding timeserved engineering expertise, while further enhancing its aftersales and service support offering.
As part of the move, the company has hired two new area sales engineers for the Midlands. Joe Green will cover the West Midlands region, while Ryan Lakin will offer support to customers in the East Midlands. Both will report to Brian Edmondson, General Sales Manager for the North of England and Midlands regions.
Joe Green assumes the role having joined Mazak as an apprentice in 2017, before completing a three-year extended diploma in Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering. Over the past eight years, he has worked in numerous roles at Mazak’ s European Manufacturing Plant in Worcester, UK. This includes time as a CNC engineer and production team lead on both the prismatic line and the turning and grinding line. Most
L-R: Ryan Lakin, Brian Edmondson and Joe Green of Yamazaki Mazak.
recently, he was a machine supervisor for two years, before moving to the area sales engineer role.
Ryan Lakin also began his career as an apprentice, working for a Devon-based aerospace engineering company before relocating to the Midlands as an applications engineer specialising in grinding and five-axis machining. Prior to joining Mazak, Ryan most recently worked as a pre-sales engineer for a machine-tool manufacturer.
The creation of the new roles follows Mazak’ s recent announcement to recruit 19 new apprentices at its European Manufacturing Plant in Worcester( UK). The company is also recruiting several new service apprentices based in parts of the country with high concentrations of Mazak users.
“ Over the coming months, we will also expand the service apprentice roles into different geographies as we continue to make significant investment in our customer support infrastructure, which also includes our extensive application engineering and project management teams as well as our 108-strong service and support team,” said Alan Mucklow, Managing Director UK & National Distributors, Yamazaki Mazak. n
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