BASF announced October 30, 2019, major personnel changes to account for its planned new division in China.
The first personnel change announced at BASF involves Klaus Welsch (56), President, Engineering & Technical Expertise, Ludwigshafen. Welsch will assume responsibility for the new division, Mega Projects Asia, BASF (China) Company Ltd., Shanghai, effective January 1, 2020. This role will oversee the company’s proposed new integrated chemical production (“Verbund”) site in Zhanjiang (China) as well as the new chemical complex in Mundra (India), in which BASF is engaged with Adani, ADNOC, and Borealis for its development.
Klaus Welsch was born in Vettweiss, Germany
in 1963. He studied Chemical Engineering
at the Technical University of Aachen and earned
his PhD in 1992.
The second personnel change involves Heather Remley (51), Senior Vice President, Petrochemicals North America, BASF Corporation, Houston, Texas, who will succeed Klaus Welsch as President. Remley started at BASF in July of 2016. 
