26.08.2019
VP sustainability for Cargotec
Hiab and Kalmar parent has appointed Päivi Koivisto as vice president, sustainability, effective September 23rd.
She joins the company from UPM Communications Papers where she HAS worked for the past 20 years, having joined the company as an environmental analyst, looking at performance. Most recently she has been director, sustainability.
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Päivi Koivisto
In her new role she will report to senior vice president communications Carina Geber-Teir, who said: "At Cargotec, we firmly believe that a profitable and sustainable business requires ethical and sustainable ways of working. Päivi has a solid track record from an industry where these issues have been developed with determination for years. I am pleased to welcome her to Cargotec. Her passion for and expertise in sustainability makes her a perfect fit to drive Cargotec’s sustainability actions to an increasingly higher level."
Sherm
Kalmar, Sweden is where Volvo AB built an auto assembly plant for team construction of Volvo Autos. Pehr Gyllenhammar was President at that time and wrote a book entitled “People At Work” telling about the strategies employed to convert the car assembly method from assembly line to team assembly and full accountability. I used some of their strategy concepts mixed with another book “The Mind oof the Strategist” by Kenichi Ohmae, managing director MacKenzie & Associates, Tokyo for management and marketing consulting projects I did in the 1970s. As J-I-T concepts were threaded into the GM plant with 300 + delivery stations at Hamtramck, Michigan it would be interesting to study how concepts of the 1970s were shuffled into that planning the GM facility. I believe it was to build Buick Autos. Now, fast-forward thinking to this century and the second decade for manufacturing of C&A equipment, intermodal freight and ports for intermodal freight handling. This world turns at warp speed!
Sherm
Paivi’s appointment to this job sounds like a good boost to increase quality for the elements of Human Resources at Cargotech. Have any books or articles been written about sustainability as a executive duty in the C & A industry? As an independent small business I view sustainability as multi-faceted attention to issues that keep the business profitable, alive and growing. It keeps me on my toes looking at business trends in the region we are in...a never-ending challenge.