Martin Jung new head of BASF’s Global Business Unit Surface Treatment

Dr Martin Jung, Senior Vice President, has been appointed head of the global business unit Surface Treatment of BASF’s Coatings division, which comprises the Chemetall business acquired from Albemarle in December 2016. Effective March 1, he succeeded Joris Merckx, who led the Chemetall business since 2007. Jung has overseen the integration of Chemetall into the BASF Group.

Before assuming his current role, Martin Jung headed the Automotive OEM Coatings Solutions Europe business unit of BASF’s Coatings division. He studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Jung received his PhD in Polymer Chemistry from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. He joined BASF in 2000 and held different management positions within the group in Germany and overseas, including Senior Vice President of Global Research Structural Materials and Vice President of Marketing Amines Europe.