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Kurt Bock appointed new chairman of BASF's Board of Executive Directors
The Supervisory Board of BASF SE has appointed Dr. Kurt Bock (51) to succeed Dr. Jürgen Hambrecht as chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF. Dr. Martin Brudermüller (49) will become vice chairman of the Board of Executive Directors. Both appointments will take effect following the end of the Annual Meeting on May 6th, 2011.
"Kurt Bock is an entrepreneur with an extensive international experience. Under his leadership, he will continue the company's success together with his colleagues on the Board of Executive Directors and the global BASF team," said Eggert Voscherau, chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF SE.
The Supervisory Board will decide on further appointments to the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE in early 2011.

Personnel Changes at BASF
The Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE announced the following changes in its management team.
Jacques Delmoitiez (57), currently President of BASF's
Polyurethanes division located in Brussels, Belgium, will become President of BASF's regional division Europe, located in Ludwigshafen, Germany, effective October 1st, 2010. The current President, Dr. Walter Seufert (59) is retiring as of September 30th, 2010.
Wayne T. Smith (50), currently President of BASF's Catalysts division located in Iselin, New Jersey, will take over responsibilities for the Polyurethanes division as of September 1 1st, 2010.
Frank A. Bozich (49) will become head of the Catalysts division. He is currently responsible for the area of precious and basic metals in the Catalysts division.

Jacques Delmoitiez

Dr. Walter Seufert

Frank A. Bozich

Wayne T. Smith

Hans-Georg Härter, Chief Executive Officer of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, new Director
On May 26th, 2010, the combined shareholders' meeting of Faurecia has met and approved all resolutions up for vote. In particular, it has approved the appointment of Mr. Hans-Georg Härter, CEO of ZF Friedrichshafen AG, as Director of Faurecia, for a period of six years.
Hans-Georg Härter has spent his whole career within the ZF Group, which he joined in 1973. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of ZF Friedrichshafen AG in January 2007.

Changes to Perstorp's board
A number of changes to Perstorp's board were carried out at the annual general meeting of Perstorp Holding AB, on May 18th. Bo Dankis stepped down as chairman of the board and handed over his position to the vice chairman Lennart Holm. New to the board is Karin Markides, president and CEO of the Chalmers Group and president at Chalmers University of Technology.
Bo Dankis stepped down as chairman of the board of Perstorp Holding AB and left the board.
Karin Markides is a professor of analytical chemistry and has been a member of the EU commission's "High Level Group (HLG) on the Competitiveness of the European Chemicals Industry" with the task of analyzing the European chemical industry's challenges and possibilities for competing with the rest of the world. She will also be chairman of the recently established "Technical Committee" of Perstorp Holding AB's board.

REACH Workable Solution for Plastics Recyclers
The European Plastics Converters (EuPC), the European Plastics Recyclers (EuPR), PlasticsEurope and Vinyl 2010 have officially launched the Safety Datasheets for Recyclates project (in short SDS-R).
The background is the European chemical legislation REACH that requires an information exchange between producers and users of plastic materials. Due to their particular position in the supply chain, plastics recyclers may have difficulties to assemble the necessary waste composition information and may thus not be able to provide to their customers the information required to fulfill their REACH obligations.
The aim of the project is to create tailor-made Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for recycled plastics. They will be downloadable from an interactive website accessible to the recyclers.
These SDS will be based on the historical data for polymers and toxicological data for polymer additives. Recyclers will be prompted to input specific data related to the recycled articles in order to improve the accuracy and the quality of the SDS.
The four organisations are co-funding this project with a significant budget and have numerous experts working on it in order to remove an important barrier for plastics recyclers' REACH compliance.