On 1 September this year, Jan Peter Tewes will take over as executive vice president at pipe producer Uponor’s (Vantaa / Finland; www.uponor.com) Building Solutions Europe division. He will also become a member of the company’s executive committee.

Tewes, who previously served as chief marketing officer at Grohe Global, will be the first head of the division, which has been operating on a dual functional manager principle since 2013. He will also be responsible for the company’s brand management, and report directly to CEO Jyri Luomakoski.

In another personnel change, Fernando Roses, executive vice president offering and supply chain for Building Solutions Europe, will assume the new role of executive vice president Technology and Corporate Development, while retaining his position on the executive committee. Meanwhile, Heiko Folgmann, executive vice president of sales and marketing for the Building Solutions Europe division, will retire.

Net sales for Uponor’s Building Solutions division Europe improved by just 0.6% year-on-year to EUR 112.7m in Q4 last year amid weaker-than-anticipated market conditions (for details, see Plasteurope.com of 16.02.2015).