Leading speciality chemicals company Lanxess has announced that Neelanjan Banerjee will be taking over as the new Global Head of the Business Unit Lubricants Additives at Lanxess Corporation, USA, effective July 1, 2022, after a brief work-in period.
A press release from the company said Banerjee has been the Region Head, Vice-Chairman & Managing Director for Lanxess India since August 2018 and Executive Director since 2009. He has held senior management positions in the last 16 years with the organisation.
Headquartered in Shelton, CT in the US, the Business Unit Lubricant Additives is globally positioned with around 800 customers worldwide, 10 production sites in seven countries, five global technical competence centres and three regional sales hubs offering a comprehensive product portfolio for all lubricant applications. It focuses mainly on Transportation Additives, Industrial Additives and Synthetic Basestocks & Fluids. The business unit serves a host of attractive global end-application industries like automotive, marine, new mobility, aviation, power generation, food processing, metalworking and general industrial.
Neelanjan Banerjee is taking over from Martin Saewe, who moves on to become the Head of Group Initiative E-Mobility and Circular Economy. He succeeds Philipp Junge, who has led the Group initiative since its launch in August 2020 and has successfully driven its strategy and projects around E-Mobility and Circular Economy. Philipp Junge is leaving LANXESS at his own request, effective March 31, to pursue new challenges outside the company.
Namitesh Roy Choudhury, currently head of Production, Technology, Safety and Environment group function (GF PTSE) India and Executive Director of Lanxess India, will succeed Neelanjan Banerjee as country representative Managing Director. He joined Bayer in 1989 and subsequently moved to Lanxess in India in 2005. He has more than 30 years of experience in the chemical industry.