Appointment of Guillaume Chantre as Deputy Director General of FCBA

Guillaume Chantre is an agricultural engineer (ENSAM) and a forestry engineer (ENGREF). He also holds a DEA in Wood Science from the University of Nancy and a degree in business management from IAE Bordeaux.

As a forester and technologist, he led work on the qualitative improvement of forest resources at AFOCEL from 1991 to 2007 “from seed to mill” in order to improve the performance of value chains linked to the wood and cellulose industries. Having created the laboratory that became InTechFibres (FCBA-CTP), he contributed to the technical support of companies in the forestry and paper industry during the two storms of 1999 and 2009.

Following the merger of the AFOCEL with the CTBA, Guillaume Chantre took over the management of the FCBA Forestry Division. Then in 2010, he invested in another plant sector by taking over the General Management of ITERG, an industrial technical centre for the oilseed and vegetable oil sector based in Pessac, whose scope he extended to vegetable proteins in 2020 by acquiring SAS IMPROVE. The ITERG group then built a strategic alliance with SAS PIVERT, expanding its scope to include biotechnologies and plant-based chemistry.

At the end of 2021, Christophe Mathieu offered him the opportunity to return to his original field by succeeding André Richter to become DGA, in charge of supervising transversal, collective and collaborative activities: Research and Programmes, BioSense cluster (Chemistry, Environment, Health, Economy), Marketing and Training. In April, Christophe Mathieu entrusted him with the management of the Ambition 2025 project aimed at renewing the vision and internal processes of the FCBA Technological Institute, after a difficult period of budgetary regulation and staff reductions.

“I would like to thank Christophe Mathieu for his confidence in me by asking me to orchestrate, with all the FCBA staff, an ambitious project at the service of forestry, wood and furniture companies that are facing major economic, environmental and societal challenges.