Lanxess Manager to Head Germany’s DKG

The head of global marketing at Lanxess AG’s Technical Rubber Products business units, Jürgen Gunther, has been appointed Management Board chairman of the German Rubber Society (the Deutsche Kautschuk Gesellschaft, or DKG) Gunther, who was already a member of the Management Board, was elected at a general meeting to succeed the previous incumbent, Thomas Barth of Freudenberg New Technologies KG. The Lanxess manager, who has been involved in the international polymers business for over 35 years, will hold this post until 2012.

The DKG is an association of more than 1,000 individuals and companies whose common goal is to encourage research and development in elastomers and disseminate knowledge in this field.