Glaston Oyj Abp announced the appointment of M.Sc. (Tech.) and B.Sc. (Econ.) Toni Laaksonen (born 1982) as CEO.

Toni Laaksonen joins Glaston from Metso Corporation, where he has been working from 2019 as Senior Vice President of Materials Processing Products. The Business line covers global business in more than 50 countries with about 1,000 employees. Prior to this position, Laaksonen has held various business line and services sales leadership positions in Metso and Outotec before it became a part of Metso, as well as project management and business controller positions in ABB.

In addition, he has served as Vice President, Parcel Services at Posti Group and worked as a Research Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland at the beginning of his career. Toni Laaksonen will assume his new position at the latest at the end of September 2024. Antti Kaunonen has served as the company's interim CEO from 15 November 2023 and will continue in this role until Toni Laaksonen takes office.

After this, Kaunonen will continue in his position as a member of the Board of Directors and will resume his position as a member of the Board's People and Remuneration Committee.