Stephan Kothrade
President
Administrative
BASF
China
Biography
Kothrade has worked with BASF since 1995. Most recently, he headed Plant Operations, Engineering & Infrastructure at BASF in Antwerp, Belgium. Both the Antwerp site and BASF-YPC in Nanjing are "Verbund" sites, a German term referring to a large-scale, highly-integrated chemical production complex. BASF operates a total of six Verbund sites among its 380 production sites worldwide. Kothrade also has held roles including Managing Director of BASF in Hungary
Research Interest
· Material chemistry · Mineralogy and Petralogy · Industrial and Engineering chemistry · Chemical Engineering · Applied and Advanced Chemistry