NEW YORK, Aug. 30 /CNW/ -- Mercer International Inc.
(Nasdaq: MERCS, TSX: MRI.U) ("Mercer") today announced the appointment of
Werner Stueber to the position of Vice President - Technical Support and Pulp
Operations and Wolfram Ridder to Vice President, Business Development.
Werner Stueber will move from his current position as Co-Managing Director
of Rosenthal to assume this new senior role in keeping with the Company's
commitment to strive for continuous improvement in all of its mills. Mr.
Stueber has over thirty years of direct industry experience including the
brown field modernization and optimization projects at Rosenthal.
Wolfram Ridder will move to a business development role from his current
position as Co-Managing Director of Stendal. With the Stendal project complete
and ramping up, this new position will focus on the development of
opportunities, government relations, subsidies, carbon credits and derivative
matters. It also includes EPC contract finalization with respect to Stendal.
Mercer also has experienced mill managers at each of its mills who have
operated through multiple business cycles in the pulp and paper industry.
Mercer International Inc. is a global pulp and paper manufacturing
company. To obtain further information on the company, please visit its web
site at http://www.mercerint.com/en/newsCurrent.cfm.
The preceding includes forward looking statements which involve known and
unknown risks and uncertainties which may cause the Company's actual results
in future periods to differ materially from forecasted results. Among those
factors which could cause actual results to differ materially are the
following: market conditions, competition and other risk factors listed from
time to time in the company's SEC reports.
