{"id":6743,"date":"2026-04-01T15:44:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hexestmaterials.ee\/fred-metsma-appointed-cfo-and-board-member-of-a-state-owned-company-setting-up-an-explosives-plant-in-estonia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:50:59","slug":"fred-metsma-appointed-cfo-and-board-member-of-a-state-owned-company-setting-up-an-explosives-plant-in-estonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hexestmaterials.ee\/en\/fred-metsma-appointed-cfo-and-board-member-of-a-state-owned-company-setting-up-an-explosives-plant-in-estonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Metsma appointed CFO and board member of a state-owned company setting up an explosives plant in Estonia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:41px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fred Metsma has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Management Board of the state\u2011owned company Hexest Materials AS, which is responsible for establishing an explosives manufacturing plant in Estonia. Metsma assumed his new role on 1 April. Fred Metsma has been working since April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Metsma has a broad experience in financial management in manufacturing and industry. Metsma brings extensive financial management experience in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. He spent nearly 12 years as Chief Financial Officer at Krah Pipes O\u00dc, a company specializing in plastic pipe manufacturing and related solutions, and most recently served for two years as CFO at Fractory Solutions, a hybrid industrial company and software startup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting and large\u2011scale manufacturing project,\u201d Fred Metsma commented on his new role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe warmly welcome our new CFO to the team and wish him every success in his new role,\u201d added Randel Veerits, CEO of Hexest Materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Metsma has been appointed Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Management Board of the state\u2011owned company Hexest Materials AS, which is responsible for establishing an explosives manufacturing plant&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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