The shareholders of Swedish household products manufacturer Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA elected five new directors to the company's board at their annual meeting May 17.

Charlotte Bengtsson, Lennart Evrell, Ulf Larsson, Martin Lindqvist and Lotta Lyrå were elected as new board members.

The elected members will join the consumer goods company's board on the first day of trading in the shares of SCA subsidiary Essity Aktiebolag, formerly known as SCA Hygiene AB, on Nasdaq Stockholm.

SCA shareholders also decided that the number of board members will amount to nine with no deputies.