MOSCOW (MRC) -- Jose Carlos Corral Montilla has succeeded Dr. Marko Grozdanovic to become BTC Europe’s new Managing Director and Vice President. The company is BASF’s European sales organisation which focuses on specialty chemicals, reported Process Worldwie.
Thus, as of November 1, 2020, Jose Carlos Corral Montilla has become the new Managing Director and Vice President of BTC Europe.
Montilla joined BASF in 1998. He started his career in Leather and Textile Chemicals at BASF Spain in Barcelona, where he held different positions in supply chain, sales and product management. In 2005, he moved to Germany to take over a role in Global Strategic Marketing for Leather Chemicals and became Head of Product Management for Leather Chemicals in North America and EMEA two years later.
After having transferred to Business Management Leather Chemicals in North America and EMEA in 2008, he became Director Global Marketing Leather Chemicals in Singapore in 2013. In his latest position, before assuming responsibility as Managing Director at BTC Europe, he worked as Director Global Product Management Plastic Additives, BASF East Asia, in Hong Kong.
“I am delighted to become a part of the BTC Europe team,” says Montilla. “The ability to connect with our customers, understand their needs and create value for them with passion and industry expertise is what drives us at BTC Europe. I am very much looking forward to grow and develop this business further at BTC Europe.”
Montilla studied Business Administration, Market Research and Advanced Industrial Marketing in Barcelona, Spain and Fontainebleau, France.
Montilla succeeds Dr. Marko Grozdanovic, who after four years at BTC Europe was appointed to Head of the Personal Care Europe regional business unit and new Managing Director of BASF Personal Care and Nutrition, effective October 1, 2020.
As MRC informed previously, German chemicals maker BASF said in early November it had put a project to build a petrochemicals complex in India worth up to USD4 billion on hold due to the economic uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. BASF signed a memorandum of understanding with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), Adani Group and Borealis AG in October 2019 to evaluate a collaboration to build the chemical site in Mundra, in India’s Gujarat state.
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BASF is the leading chemical company. It produces a wide range of chemicals, for example solvents, amines, resins, glues, electronic-grade chemicals, industrial gases, basic petrochemicals and inorganic chemicals. The most important customers for this segment are the pharmaceutical, construction, textile and automotive industries.
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