LEVERKUSEN (dpa-AFX) - Bayer AG (BAYZF.PK, BAYRY.PK, BYR.L) Wednesday said Bayer MaterialScience is getting a new head of Industrial Operations and Technology. Dr. Klaus Schäfer will assume global responsibility for this unit effective January 1, 2015.
Schäfer will also become a member of the company's highest leadership circle, the Executive Committee, at that same time. 52-year-old Schäfer has previously served in other leadership roles at Bayer MaterialScience, and will succeed Dr. Tony Van Osselaer, who is retiring after 34 years with the company.
He joined Bayer in 2001, holding global responsibility for process control technology in the former Plastics Business Group. In 2006, Schäfer was appointed member and Chairman of the Board of Management of Bayer Industry Services.
Five years later, he rejoined Bayer MaterialScience as Senior Country Representative China. In 2013, he was appointed head of Production and Technology in the Polyurethanes Business Unit.
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