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SKF makes changes to Group Management

<p class="c1" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9px 0px 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#5E5E5E;text-transform:none;line-height:1.5em;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> SKF is making the following changes to its Group Management, effective immediately. <p class="c1" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9px 0px 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#5E5E5E;text-transform:none;line-height:1.5em;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> Kent Viitanen is appointed President, Bearing Operations. Kent was previously Senior Vice President, Group People, Communication and Quality. Kent joined SKF in 1988 and has held a number of business unit and factory management roles, in Sweden and abroad. The Group Quality function will also be integrated into Bearing Operations. Kent is succeeding Luc Graux, who will take up a new role within Bearing Operations. <p class="c1" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9px 0px 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#5E5E5E;text-transform:none;line-height:1.5em;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> <p class="c1" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9px 0px 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#5E5E5E;text-transform:none;line-height:1.5em;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> <img alt="" src="http://www.bearing.com.cn/membcentre/editor/attached/image/20190226/20190226132355_63632.png" /> <p class="c1" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9px 0px 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#5E5E5E;text-transform:none;line-height:1.5em;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> Carina Bergfelt, in addition to her role as General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Legal and Sustainability, will take on responsibility for People and Communication. <p class="c1" style="background:#FFFFFF;margin:9px 0px 1em;padding:0px;outline:0px;border:0px currentColor;border-image:none;color:#5E5E5E;text-transform:none;line-height:1.5em;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;word-spacing:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:normal;orphans:2;widows:2;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;"> Alrik Danielson, President and CEO, says: “This change ensures we have the leadership in place to implement our already announced investments in world-class manufacturing and digitalisation of our supply and logistics chain.”

26 Feb,2019