Tessenderlo Chemie NV announced that there will be some changes in the current management. As of April 1, 2012, Jan Vandendriessche, currently Director Business Group Organic Specialties will become Chief Growth Officer for the Group. In his new role, he will focus on creating additional value through innovation and uncovering growth opportunities in the different businesses. His current responsibilities will be transferred to Pol Deturck, currently Director Business Group Chemicals, who will add the Akiolis and Gelatins businesses to his present portfolio of responsibilities. Following the guiding principles of Corporate Governance, Tessenderlo Group has also decided to have a dual reporting line for the function of Director Risk Management, Internal Control and Internal Audit. Eddy Vandenbriele, who currently holds this position, will continue to report to the CEO for Risk Management and Internal Control. For Internal Audit, he will report directly to the Audit Committee to guarantee full autonomy and independency. Ingvild Van Lysebetten has recently been appointed as the new Group Communication Director. In this role, Ingvild is responsible for supporting the Group Management Committee to set the communications strategy. Ingvild worked most recently as Corporate Communications Director at Carrefour Belgium.
Tessenderlo Group nv is a diversified industrial group. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of agrochemicals (37.7%): crop nutrients (liquid sulfur fertilizers, solid and soluble potassium sulfate fertilizers, etc.) and crop protection products;
- sale of animal by-products (30.9%): animal fats and proteins, gelatins, collagen peptides, etc.;
- sale of industrial products (28.3%): plastic pipe systems, PVC profiles, performance chemicals (ferric chloride, caustic soda, sodium hypochlorite, hydrochloric acid, sodium sulphide, hydrogen sulphide, calcium chloride, etc.), electrolysis products, specialty chemicals, etc. for the water treatment and transportation, construction, mining, food processing, oil and gas industries, etc.;
- power generation (3.1%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Belgium (9.1%), France (16.5%), the Netherlands (10.2%), the United Kingdom (4.9%), Spain (3.5%), Germany (3%), Poland (1.5%), Europe (6%), the United States (28.8%), Mexico (3.2%), China (0.7%) and other (12.6%).
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