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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Dr. Melanie
Maas-Brunner has been appointed as a member of the Board of Executive Directors
of BASF SE, effective from 1 February 2021, reported GV.
Maas-Brunner has been with
the company since 1997 and has headed BASF’s Nutrition & Health division
since 2017. In her new role, she will also take over the position as Chief
Technology Officer from Dr. Martin Brudermuller, Chairman of the Board of
Executive Directors of BASF. She will assume responsibility for the three
research divisions Advanced Materials & Systems Research, Bioscience
Research, Process Research & Chemical Engineering as well as BASF New
Business at that time. Dr. Kurt Bock, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF
SE, said: “With Melanie Maas-Brunner, we have appointed a very experienced
chemist and strong leader to the Board. During her career at BASF to date, she
has successfully set up business areas for the future – with global
responsibility as well as in the Asia region.”
Wayne T. Smith is leaving
the Board as of 31 May 2021. Smith has been with BASF for 16 years and has been
a member of the Board since 2012. He is currently responsible for the divisions
Monomers, Performance Materials, Petrochemicals, Intermediates, Process Research
& Chemical Engineering and North America. “Wayne Smith has successfully
developed the business areas in his area of responsibility with strategic
foresight. He is particularly credited with placing customer orientation even
more at the centre of BASF activities. I worked well and closely with Wayne
Smith for many years. I thank him for his achievements and wish him all the
best,” said Bock.
Michael Heinz will take over Smith’s responsibilities
in North America after a transition period on 1 June 2021, and retain his
responsibilities for South America. Maas-Brunner will additionally take over the
tasks in the divisions European Site & Verbund Management, Global
Engineering Services and Corporate Environmental Protection, Health & Safety
as well as the role of the Industrial Relations Director from Heinz on the same
date.
Following these changes, the Board of Executive Directors has
decided to redistribute its responsibilities effective 1 June 2021:
Dr.
Martin Brudermuller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, Ressort I,
responsible for Corporate Legal, Compliance, Tax & Insurance; Corporate
Development; Corporate Communications & Government Relations; Corporate
Human Resources; Corporate Investor Relations
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Engel, Vice
Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, Chief Financial Officer and Chief
Digital Officer, Ressort II, responsible for Corporate Finance; Corporate Audit;
Global Business Services; Global Digital Services; Global Procurement
Dr.
Melanie Maas-Brunner, Industrial Relations Director and Chief Technology
Officer, Ressort III, responsible for European Site & Verbund Management;
Global Engineering Services; Corporate Environmental Protection, Health &
Safety; Advanced Materials & Systems Research; Bioscience Research; Process
Research & Chemical Engineering; BASF New Business
Saori Dubourg, Ressort
IV, responsible for Agricultural Solutions; Nutrition & Health; Care
Chemicals; Region Europe
Michael Heinz, Ressort V, located in Florham Park,
NJ, USA, responsible for Monomers; Performance Materials; Petrochemicals;
Intermediates; Region North America; Region South America
Dr. Markus Kamieth,
Ressort VI, located in Hongkong, responsible for Dispersions & Pigments;
Catalysts; Coatings; Performance Chemicals; Region Greater China; Region South
& East Asia, ASEAN & ANZ; Mega Projects Asia.
As MRC wrote earlier,
BASF says it has shut down an unspecified unit at its 420,000-metric ton/year
steam cracker site in Ludwigshafen, Germany, due to a technical defect.
Unscheduled flaring started on 13 January at the northern part of the
Ludwigshafen site and is expected to last until 17 January, it says. “At around
4pm (local time) there was an outage at a unit at the northern part due to a
technical defect. The unit will be partially shut down to repair the defect,” it
says.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing polyethylene
(PE) and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's DataScope report,
PE imports to Russia decreased in January-November 2020 by 17% year on year and
reached 569,900 tonnes. High density polyethylene (HDPE) accounted for the
greatest reduction in imports. At the same time, PP imports into Russia
increased by 21% year on year to about 202,000 tonnes in the first eleven months
of 2020. Propylene homopolymer (homopolymer PP) accounted for the main increase
in imports.
BASF is the leading chemical company. It produces a wide
range of chemicals, for example solvents, amines, resins, glues,
electronic-grade chemicals, industrial gases, basic petrochemicals and inorganic
chemicals. The most important customers for this segment are the pharmaceutical,
construction, textile and automotive industries. |
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