Dr Stephan Glander (46) has been appointed new managing director of BYK-Chemie and worldwide president of BYK Additives & Instruments, one of the divisions of Altana. He will take up these roles as of July 1, 2015, succeeding Dr Christoph Schlünken, who became a member of the Altana management board in November 2014.

Dr Glander brings many years of international management experience. With a PhD in chemistry and an MBA at Michigan State University, he held various management positions in major chemical companies such as Bayer. In his last role as managing director of the Engineering Plastics Division of Röchling, he had full responsibility for the Composites and Medical Plastics business units. Before that, from 2005 to 2012, he worked for Quadrant EPP in Switzerland as business line manager Advanced Engineering Plastics and was later promoted to global director Marketing & Technology.