Uta Holzenkamp Appointed President Of BASF’s Coatings Division

BASF has appointed Uta Holzenkamp as President of the company’s Coatings division, which comprises more than 70 sites and around 11,000 employees.

Holzenkamp joined BASF in 1997, starting her career in the pharmaceutical research department. After several positions at BASF in Germany and abroad, Holzenkamp became Senior Vice President of the company’s global Fuel and Lubricant Solutions business unit – part of the Performance Chemicals division – in April 2018.

Her predecessor, Dirk Bremm, who has headed the Coatings division since April 2017, has become CEO of BASF Automotive Catalysts and Recycling, a separate mobile emissions catalysts, automotive catalysts recycling and associated precious metal services entity, headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey in the USA.