Chris Blackford is now regional managing director for the UK and Ireland at Mondi Packaging… Lüscher Flexo has appointed Andy Gotch as international sales manager… Hannu Kottonenis now senior vp and general manager of M-Real’s cartons business… Purex International has appointed Paul Schofield as customer support – applications engineer… Pira International has named Gary Parker head of its Environment and Waste Group and Simon Marsden as principal consultant… at Black Clawson, Harry Challender has been named vice president of business development… Michael Cook is now general manager at Fusion UV Systems for all UV curing operations and business activities in Europe.