BASF names Heinz to head global team to integrate Ciba.Michael Heinz, the current head of BASF's crop protection division, has been appointed head of the global Ciba integration team as of February 1, 2009. Heinz will be succeeded by Markus Heldt who is currently responsible for the company's crop protection business in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Heinz has held a number of positions in fine chemicals and crop protection in North, South and Central America Central America, narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. since joining BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida in 1987. In 1999, he was appointed general manager of BASF's activities in Mexico and Central America. In 2002, he assumed responsibility for global strategic marketing of BASF's crop protection products before being made head of the crop protection division in 2005. Heldt joined BASF in 2000 following the company's acquisition of American Cyanamid American Cyanamid was a large, diversified, American chemical manufacturer. Lederle Laboratories, maker of Centrum and Stresstabs vitamins, was Cyanamid's pharmaceutical division. Davis & Geck was the company's medical device division. . In 2005, he assumed responsibility for the crop protection business in North America. |
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