Hubert Fink has been appointed to the Lanxess managing board effective Oct. 1, 2015, increasing the number of board members from three to four.

Head of the Advanced Industrial Intermediates business unit since 2011, Fink in future will have board responsibility for that segment with the Advanced Industrial Intermediates and Saltigo business units and for the High Performance Materials business unit. He also will oversee the Global Procurement & Logistics group function and the Production, Technology, Safety and Environment (PTSE) group function, which combines all production-related services.

The German national joined Bayer in 1988 and became head of Global Operations Semi-Crystalline Products in the Bayer Polymers subgroup – predecessor of Bayer MaterialScience, now Covestro – in 2002. With the creation of Lanxess in 2004, he assumed responsibility for the same functions there.