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PEOPLE

JENS LIEBERMANN APPOINTED AS VP FOR BASF SEMICONDUCTOR BIZ
Jens Liebermann has been appointed Vice President for the global Semiconductor busi-
ness under the business unit Electronic Materials of BASF’s Dispersions & Pigments divi-
sion effective March 1, 2020. Jens succeeds Dominic Yang, who led the Semiconductor
business in the past years and will retire from his current position. Jens will be based in
Seoul, South Korea. Jens Liebermann played leading role in the strategy development and
organizational restructuring of BASF’s Electronic Materials business. Prior to his current
role, he headed Global Business Management for BASF’s Metal Systems Business. He
started his career at BASF’s Coatings Division focusing on automotive in Germany in
2007. Since then, he held various positions in marketing, sales, business management and
strategy for the Coatings, Coating formulations, raw materials and Electronic Materials
business in BASF. During the recent past years, he focused on the IC industry supplying
specialty raw materials and formulations to the Electronic industry.

ENGEL FRANCE & ENGEL BENELUX HAVE NEW
MANAGING DIRECTORS
Romain Reyre and Arthur van Dijk are the new Managing Di-
rectors in injection moulding machine manufacturer Engel’s
international sales network. Romain Reyre will be in charge
of the sales and service subsidiary in France, while Arthur van
Dijk is joining Engel Benelux.
Engel France SAS is completing a generation change in man-
agement. Philippe Sterna, MD of the sales and service sub-
sidiary for 20 years, is retiring. His successor is Romain Reyre.
Reyre has been with Engel since 2016 and was most recently Regional President, managing Engel’s business in South East
Asia. He is now returning to his home country France. “We are pleased to be able to fill this important position inter-
nally,” says Dr. Christoph Steger, CSO of the Engel Group. Romain Reyre brings a total of 30 years of experience in the
international plastics industry to his new responsibility and knows the plastics industry market in France just as well as the
international network.

MARCEL BEERMANN TO HEAD PROCUREMENT AT LANXESS
Marcel Beermann (47) will take over as head of the Procurement and Logistics group
function at specialty chemicals company Lanxess on June 1, 2020. He succeeds Fred-
erique van Baarle (48), who will become head of the High Performance Materials busi-
ness unit on the same date. Beermann is currently head of marketing and sales for high-
performance plastics in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region at Lanxess.
“Over the past one and a half years, Marcel Beermann has been able to further deepen his
profound understanding of the markets and players in the chemical industry in a leading
position in our operational business. He has done an excellent job here, as he did during
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his ten years as head of the Mergers & Acquisitions group function. I am very pleased
that he can now contribute his extensive know-how to our global purchasing and logistics
operations and wish him every success in his new role,” said Hubert Fink, member of the
Lanxess Board of Management.

SPX FLOW APPOINTS J.P. PHILLIPS
SPX Flow has announced the appointment of J.P. Phillips as Americas Key Account Direc-
tor - Strategic Partnerships. J.P. has held the position of District Sales Manager - Food &
Beverage at SPX Flow for the past five years. Previously, he worked at AMPCO Pumps as
well as the Food Equipment and Engineering Company, which is now Cummins Wagner.
Ava Drayton, VP, America Key Account and System Sales at SPX Flow, said: “J.P. has
proven success in his previous roles and is a welcome addition to our Key Account Man-
agement Team. We place a lot of value on long-term, sustainable relationships with our
key customers and having the correct level of skills, resources and business acumen to
support them is a critical part of our business.” J.P. will be based out of the SPX Flow
office in Charlotte North Carolina. He will provide strategic direction and leadership in the development and maintenance
20 of long-term relationships and will help ensure a culture of customer-focused innovation and profitable growth using disci-
plined practices and processes.