Fried-Walter Münstermann (54), President, Procurement, BASF SE Ludwigshafen, takes over responsibility for "Task Force Process Simplification" on January 1, 2019.
Stefano Pigozzi (54), President, Monomers, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, will take over the management of Procurement at the same time.
Kenneth T. Lane (50), President, Catalysts, BASF Corporation, Iselin, will take over the Monomers division at the same time. The headquarters of this division will be relocated from Ludwigshafen to Waterloo in the course of the year 2019.
Dr. Peter Schuhmacher (53), President, Process Research & Chemical Engineering, BASF, SE, Ludwigshafen, takes over the management of the Catalysts division on December 1, 2018. He succeeds Dr. Detlef Kratz (56), currently Senior Vice President, Corporate Technology & Operational Excellence, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen.