From 1 August, BASF’s Care Chemicals division will be split into two: Nutrition & Health and Care Chemicals
The new Nutrition & Health division will incorporate the Nutrition Ingredients and Aroma Chemicals businesses, as well as Pharma Ingredients & Services.
Walter Dissinger, currently senior vice president, Crop Protection Latin America will be president of this division.
The Personal Care, Hygiene, Home Care and Industrial Formulators businesses will form the Care Chemicals division, headed by Gabriel Tanbourgi, president of the current Care Chemicals division.
Gabriel Tanbourgi
Both divisions will be part of the Performance Products business segment.
BASF has also reshuffled its management team. Beate Ehle, currently president of BASF’s Intermediates division located in Ludwigshafen, Germany, will become president of the Market & Business Development North America regional division located in Florham Park, New Jersey. The current president, Joseph Breunig, will leave the company at the end of August.
Beate Ehle
Sanjeev Gulab Gandhi, senior vice president, Petrochemicals Asia Pacific at BASF South East Asia located in Singapore, will succeed Ehle as president of the Intermediates division.
Sanjeev Gulab Gandhi