Proschek-Hauptmann will be responsible for strengthening the group’s compliance and sustainability agenda as well as for further engaging in dialogue with external stakeholders.

Prior to his engagement with the Schweighofer Group, Michael Proschek-Hauptmann was Managing Director of the Austrian Umbrella Association of Environmental NGOs (Umweltdachverband) for more than eight years and also served as a long-standing member of the Board of Directors of the forest certification label PEFC International.

He is a biologist by training and has been actively engaged in the environmental, NGO and sustainability fields ever since he embarked on his career.The Schweighofer Group is primarily active in the wood processing industry but also in dissolving pulp production, forest management, bioenergy production and real estate.

The industry division of the Schweighofer Group operates three sawmills and two wooden panel productions in Romania, one saw mill in Germany and a dissolving pulp production in Austria.