Citation
(2004), "BASF Names Blair to head coatings business in North America; other appointments announced", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 33 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/prt.2004.12933aab.026
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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BASF Names Blair to head coatings business in North America; other appointments announced
BASF Names Blair to head coatings business in North America; other appointments announced
BASF has named Rainer Michael Blair Group Vice-President, Coatings, for North America, with responsibility for BASF's Coatings business in North America and global responsibility for the business's Automotive OEM Coatings unit. Blair, currently head of the Automotive OEM Coatings unit for BASF Coatings in Muenster, Germany, will succeed Martin Laudenbach, who was named president of BASF's Fine Chemicals Global Business Unit, effective from 1 December. Succeeding Blair as head of the Automotive OEM Coatings unit is Gerold Mahr, currently director, BASF Coatings de México S.A. de C.V., based at the company's coatings manufacturing site in Tultitlán, Mexico. Peter Alexander Fischer will succeed Mahr, effective from 1 November, 2003.
Blair joined BASF AG in Ludwigshafen, Germany, in 1990 as product and marketing manager, Industrial Chemicals division. In 1995, he joined BASF Corp. in the United States as marketing manager, Acrylic Monomers, and in 1998 he was named to head BASF Argentina S.A., and was also responsible for the plastics and chemicals business units of the BASF Group in South America. He was named to his current position in 2001.
Fischer joined BASF Coatings in 1988 and held manufacturing- management positions at the company's sites in Cologne and Wuerzburg, Germany. In 1994, he was named managing director at BASF Shanghai Coatings in China, and in 2000 moved to Tultitlán as director, Operations and Site manager.