Speakers Corner

Tommy Abrahamsson
Europe Strategic Account Manager
Cascade

Tommy Abrahamsson has worked in the lift truck industry since 1985. He joined the Cascade team in 1994, working as a territory manager and later as a country manager. His current position is Cascade Europe Strategic Account Manager where he "enjoys great satisfaction partnering with customers to find the best solution for their particular material handling challenges." Tommy lives in Gothenburg Sweden.

Tommy Abrahamsson, Cascade Strategic Account Manager will focus on damage reduction solutions for the paper industry. Continuous research into new technologies and constant liaison with paper producers and users has enabled Cascade to develop products that not only reduce damage due to improper clamp force, but improve productivity. You will learn about the Cascade H-Series line of Paper Roll Clamps, which offer a vast array of capacity ranges and excellent visibility through and around the clamp. He'll also introduce Cascade's new line of Sliding Arm Paper Roll Clamps. You'll see for yourself just how the incredibly thin arm profile of these clamps make damage free loading and unloading of tightly stacked rolls effortless.

Carsten Hellmers
CEO
V. Alexander

Carsten Hellmers (1958) graduated from High School in 1975. Started in the shipping industry as broker/agent and operating special forest product vessels in the European Area. The entire professional career in transport with 30 years of special focus to Forest Product Logistics.

Leaving the shipping lines in 1998 and continued his career as Branch Manager of Fr. Meyer's Sohn, Bremen. 2006 Carsten Hellmers founded V.Alexander International Logistics GmbH partnering with V.Alexander Inc. USA to establish the North European Headquarter. Based on the long experience V.Alexander became a major logistic provider to the Forest Product Industry.

V.Alexander International Logistics handles annually 640.000 tons paper and pulp inbound via various European Ports, distributing by truck, barge, rail and coaster. Export shipments have reached 35.000 Teus Forest Products only. V.Alexander works for major clients in North- South America as well as Europe and Asia.

Focus

A new project between Finnish pulp manufacturer Botnia and logistics provider V. Alexander will use RFID to monitor pulp shipments. The tracking technology has found wide success with paper shipments in the last few years, but pulp producers have been leery that the technology is too expensive. If this pilot project is successful, V. Alexander could take the lead among logistics providers who handle pulp.

Javier Herrera
Commmercial Manager
Euroports

Javier Herrera is the Commercial Manager of Euroports in Spain. With a background in freight forwarding, ships agency and as an owners representative he moved fully into the ports sector in 2001 before joining Euroports in 2007. Since 2008 he has been leading the planning, development and execution of Euroports new forest products terminal in Tarragona. He has a Degree in Business and Administration and a Postgraduate on Management on Harbor Operations.

New Spanish Terminal Development

Dolf van Dijk
Commercial Manager - Woodpulp & Paper
Verbrugge

Dolf van Dijk has been in the position of Commercial Manager Woodpulp & Paper at Verbrugge Terminals since October 1st of this year. Dolf graduated from Tilburg University in 2002. He holds a masters degree in business administration. During his studies, he already focused on logistics and supply chain management. After his graduation he worked a few years for DHL Solutions. As a logistic engineer he gathered a lot of experience in designing logistic processes and project management. He left DHL to join Van den Anker, which is the biggest logistic service provider for packed chemicals in the Benelux. At this company he was part of the commercial team and responsible for the customer service department.

Four years ago Dolf joined Verbrugge. Through different commercial activities for both Verbrugge Transport and Verbrugge Terminals, he learned to know the company, its customers and the industry.

In his new position he will take the lead in all commercial activities toward producers, shippers and receivers of pulp and paper for Verbrugge Terminals. His approach will be open-minded, pro-active, always looking for new possibilities to serve customers in a better way. Dolf will maintain and further develop the long-term partnerships with customers in the pulp & paper industry.

Lorne Irvine
Sales Manager
OVAL International

Lorne Irvine has spent the last 36 years in the pulp and paper industry, the last 18 with OVAL International. Lorne started his career with the company with sales and customer development responsibilities for the Forest Products Division in western Canada. Within a few years he was appointed Sales Manager over the region and was instrumental in sales and marketing of the company’s new all electric paper strapping Machine for pulp bale tying. Recently, Lorne was appointed Sales Manager – North America with the responsibility of sales and profitability for the domestic market pulp industry.

About OVAL International “Port-A-Tyer®”

OVAL International is pleased to announce the introduction of our newly developed “Port-A-Tyer®”. This lower cost and portable unitizing system is ideal for locations that have the need to unitize small lots of pulp or where space or manpower is limited. This equipment can be used by one operator and requires no powered conveyors. The system was developed using the proven and tested OVALMATIC technology currently in use world wide. Easily disassembled for storage or relocation to other facilities, it can be set up and operating again within hours. This equipment is designed to meet the International regulations in place for the lifting of unitized pulp. In closing, we will also comment on recent new developments in the transportation of paper strapped pulp bales. We look forward to seeing you at the speaker’s corner or at booth 214.

Lindsay McLaughlin
Global Customer Solutions, Solution Consulting & Implementation
Kuehne + Nagel (AG & Co.) KG

Lindsay McLaughlin joined Kuehne + Nagel in Montreal, Canada in 1998. During her 13 year career at Kuehne + Nagel Lindsay has held several roles within sales and operations in Canada, Asia Pacific and Germany. Today, Lindsay leads the Solution Consulting & Implementation group reporting to Global Customer Solutions and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

Lindsay's expertise lies in international transportation logistics, customer integration project management including solution design, application development, EDI integration, customer reporting, training and continuous strategic account development. Lindsay's team is responsible for the development of Kuehne + Nagel's Global Customer Implementation strategy for the sea and air business units and acts as a consultant for the development of solutions for global and strategic accounts. An expert in solutions powered by KN Login, Lindsay lead the team of business analysts responsible for the development of the KN Login application from 2008 until mid 2011.

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