Valmet's organization and management

Responsibility for the control and management of Valmet is divided between the general meeting of shareholders, the Board of Directors and the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Shareholders participate in the control and management of Valmet through resolutions passed at general meetings of shareholders.

Valmet’s Board of Directors and the President and CEO will be responsible for the management of Valmet. Valmet’s Board of Directors will seek to ensure that good corporate governance practice is applied within Valmet.

The President and CEO appointed by the Board of Directors of Valmet is responsible for the management and supervision of Valmet’s day-to-day business. Other executives will have an assisting and supporting role. 

Valmet’s operating model consists of five business areas: Automation Solutions; Flow Control; Pulp, Energy and Circularity; Packaging and Paper; and Tissue. The business areas are supported by a separate Latin America unit and a China Chair. The Global Supply unit supports cost-competitiveness by optimizing and leveraging Valmet’s global scale in procurement and production. The support functions under the operating model include People, Communications and Culture, Finance, Strategy and Transformation, as well as Legal.