New Comer for LANXESS Leather Chemicals Business
Year:2009 ISSUE:23
COLUMN:M & A, BUSINESS & TRADE
Click:209    DateTime:Aug.19,2009
New Comer for LANXESS Leather Chemicals Business      

LANXESS says Dr. Markus Eckert (38) will assume global responsibility for the leather chemicals business of LANXESS on October 1st, 2009.
   PhD chemist Markus Eckert joined the Bayer Group in 1999 as a laboratory manager and project manager in the Research & Development section of the Fine Chemicals business unit. He was transferred to Shanghai, where he headed Regional Strategic Planning at Bayer Polymers Asia/Pacific. He was subsequently appointed assistant to the Chairman of the LANXESS Board of Management Board Dr. Axel C. Heitmann and, as a member of the Business Design project team, worked intensively on the establishment of LANXESS as a specialty chemicals group. Since April 1, 2005, he has been head of the Corporate Development group function.
   LANXESS Leather business unit posted sales of EUR 1 930 million in fiscal 2008.