{"id":102946,"date":"2025-06-10T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T07:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=102946"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T06:03:16","slug":"huhtamaki-appoints-axel-glade-as-president-flexible-packaging-as-of-1-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/huhtamaki-beruft-zum-1-juli-axel-glade-zum-president-flexible-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Huhtamaki appoints Axel Glade as President Flexible Packaging as of 1 July"},"content":{"rendered":"

Axel Glade will take over as Head of the Flexible Packaging division at Huhtamaki on 1 July 2025. The industry expert is moving from Constantia Flexibles to the Finnish packaging group and will become a member of the Global Executive Team.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The international packaging group Huhtamaki Oyj<\/strong> has announced the early appointment of Axel Glade (55) as President Flexible Packaging.<\/p>\n

The change, originally planned for January 2026 at the latest, is now already taking place as of 1 July 2025<\/strong>. In his new role, Glade will also be a member of Huhtamaki's Global Executive Team and will report directly to CEO Ralf K. Wunderlich.<\/p>

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He will be based at the company's headquarters in Espoo, Finland<\/strong> lie.<\/p>\n

Change from Constantia Flexibles<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Glade comes from the Viennese packaging specialist Constantia Flexibles<\/strong>, where he worked as Executive Vice President of the Film Division<\/strong> and member of the Executive Committees<\/strong> was active in the company. The experienced industry manager has extensive expertise in the area of flexible packaging solutions<\/strong>, especially in the area of food and consumer goods packaging.<\/p>\n

Newly formed Executive Leadership Team at Huhtamaki<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Axel Glade joins Huhtamaki's Global Executive Team with the following members:<\/p>\n

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    Ralf K. Wunderlich<\/strong>, President & CEO (Chair)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Fredrik Davidsson<\/strong>, President, Foodservice Packaging<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Sara Engber<\/strong>, President, Fibre Packaging<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Thomas Geust<\/strong>, Chief Financial Officer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Axel Glade<\/strong>, President, Flexible Packaging (from 1 July 2025)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Ann O'Hara<\/strong>, President, North America<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Sami Pauni<\/strong>, EVP Sustainability, Corporate Affairs & Legal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Johan Rabe<\/strong>, EVP Digital and Process Performance<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Ingolf Thom<\/strong>, EVP Human Resources and Safety<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Changsheng Wu<\/strong>, EVP Procurement<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Source:<\/em> Huhtamaki<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 55-year-old comes to Finland from Constantia Flexibles.","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":102950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"Huhtamaki","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[58970,60830,60655,54,59142,32,59464],"class_list":{"0":"post-102946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personen","8":"tag-constantia-flexibles","9":"tag-finnland","10":"tag-flexible-verpackungen","11":"tag-kunststoff-und-verbunde","12":"tag-news-express","13":"tag-packmittel-und-packstoffe","14":"tag-personen","15":"cs-entry","16":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}