Panels & Furniture Asia March/April 2023
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Panels & Furniture Asia (PFA) is a leading regional trade magazine dedicated to the woodbased panel, furniture and flooring processing industry. Published bi-monthly since 2000, PFA delivers authentic journalism to cover the latest news, technology, machinery, projects, products and trade events throughout the sector. With a hardcopy and digital readership comprising manufacturers, designers and specifiers, among others, PFA is the platform of choice for connecting brands across the global woodworking landscape.
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NEWS<br />
HENKEL APPOINTS NEW MANAGEMENT<br />
BOARD MEMBER AND EXECUTIVE VP<br />
FOR ADHESIVES BUSINESS<br />
Effective 1 Feb <strong>2023</strong>, Mark Dorn, currently<br />
Henkel’s senior vice-president responsible for<br />
the Adhesive Technologies business unit in<br />
<strong>Asia</strong>-Pacific, will be appointed executive vicepresident<br />
and member of the management<br />
board responsible for the Adhesive<br />
Technologies business unit.<br />
He will succeed Jan-Dirk Auris, who will leave<br />
the company at the end of January <strong>2023</strong> after<br />
around 35 years of service.<br />
“We are pleased that Mark Dorn will be leading<br />
our Adhesive Technologies unit in the future,”<br />
said Dr Simone Bagel-Trah, chairwoman of<br />
the supervisory board and shareholders’<br />
committee of Henkel.<br />
“He has broad and long-term experience in<br />
international industrial businesses and knows<br />
the Adhesive Technologies business unit,<br />
our businesses, and customers very well.<br />
At the same time, he brings a wide range of<br />
experience from other leading companies<br />
in the chemical industry to his new role.”<br />
Dorn started his career at Henkel in<br />
1992. At Cognis, the spin-off of Henkel’s<br />
chemicals division at the end of 1999,<br />
he held various management positions<br />
including sales and supply chain,<br />
marketing, and strategy.<br />
In 2010, he left Henkel, but returned in 2019<br />
and has since been responsible for the<br />
entire Adhesive Technologies business in<br />
<strong>Asia</strong>-Pacific and globally for the craftsmen,<br />
construction and professional business<br />
area. He also serves as president for Henkel<br />
in <strong>Asia</strong>-Pacific.<br />
Mark Dorn, the new executive vice-president and<br />
member of the management board for Henkel’s<br />
Adhesive Technologies business unit (Image: Henkel)<br />
Henkel CEO Carsten Knobel added: “I am<br />
looking forward to working with Mark Dorn and<br />
I am confident that he, together with the global<br />
leadership team of Adhesive Technologies, will<br />
leverage the global leading market position of<br />
this business unit to further increase its growth<br />
and profitability in the coming years.” P<br />
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<strong>Panels</strong> & <strong>Furniture</strong> <strong>Asia</strong> | <strong>March</strong> / <strong>April</strong> <strong>2023</strong> 15
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