With effect from April 1, Albert von Hebel succeeds Gerd Büscher as Managing Director at Byk-Chemistry, a subsidiary of Altana. In his new role, he is responsible for the areas of finance, controlling, purchasing, IT, integrated management systems, and general administration.

Albert von Hebel is 49 years of age and was born in Papenburg, Emsland in Lower Saxony. After studying business economics in Münster, he worked for roughly eight years at an auditing and tax advisory company in Düsseldorf. During this time, he successfully completed his tax consultant state examination. In the following  20 years, he was employed in a variety of roles in commercial departments of the companies within the Altana Group. In 1996 he moved to BYK-Chemistry in Wesel. For the last four years, Albert von Hebel has been Head of Finance & Controlling of Altana.

Mr Büscher is retiring in May - after 20 years' service with the company.