Due to the coronavirus crisis, Ineos has postponed the planned annual maintenance shutdown of its UK North Sea Forties Pipeline for almost a year, to assure its chemical feedstock customers of sufficient supply amid British government virus containment restrictions.
Michael Zobel (50), currently head of the High Performance Materials (HPM) business unit, will take over the management of Lanxess subsidiary Saltigo from Torsten Derr (50) on June 1, 2020.
Under the name CheMondis, German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has launched a new global online marketplace for chemical products. The start-up is an outgrowth of the company-wide digitalization initiative the company launched in 2017. “Developing new business models is an important element of the LANXESS digitalization initiative,” said CEO Matthias Zachert.
