Ilkka Köntti appointed SVP, Production at Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services

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Ilkka Köntti has been appointed SVP, Production and a member of the management team at Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services as of 1 September 2025.

He will be responsible for production management in wood supply and forest services, resourcing, harvesting, the implementation of forest management services, and wood and wood energy transports to customers.

Köntti has worked as a project and district manager at Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services for four years. Before that, he worked for nearly 20 years in the forest sector, accumulating extensive experience at Stora Enso and a forest management association, for example. 

Köntti will report to Juha Jumppanen, Metsä Group’s EVP, Wood Supply and Forest Services.

Hannu Alarautalahti, who has been SVP, Production at Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services since 2014, will leave the company by mutual agreement on 30 September 2025. 

“I would like to give my warm thanks to Hannu for his committed and long-term work in Wood Supply,” says Juha Jumppanen.
 

For further information, please contact:

Juha Jumppanen, EVP, Metsä Group Wood Supply and Forest Services, tel. +358 50 384 4808


Metsä Group’s Wood Supply and Forest Services 
metsagroup.com/metsaforest

Metsä Forest provides and develops services for the members of Metsä Group’s parent company, Metsäliitto Cooperative. The company procures all the wood used by Metsä Group’s production units. The cooperative consists of more than 90,000 forest owners, who own about half of Finland’s privately owned forests. We are committed to regenerative forestry to measurably strengthen the state of forest nature. We promote a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. 

In 2024, our sales totalled EUR 2.4 billion, and we have around 700 employees. The sales of the whole Metsä Group were EUR 5,7 billion.