As of December 1, 2005, Hans W. Reiners took over responsibility for BASF’s Styrenics Operating Division. He has succeeded Dr. Fred Baumgartner, who will be heading the Inorganics Operating Division as of January 1, 2006.

Following his early work as product manager in the divisions of textile dyes and fibre intermediates at BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany, Mr Reiners spent two years at the BASF Corporation in Parsippany, New Jersey, in the United States. Upon his return, he was assistant to a member of the Board of BASF Aktiengesellschaft until 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he headed the Agricultural Products for Southern Europe” business unit, working out of Barcelona, Spain. This was followed by three years as head of Global Marketing for Agricultural Products. In this capacity, he was responsible for the integration of American Cyanamid into BASF after this company was acquired in 2000. Since 2001, he has headed the Agricultural Products Division of the BASF Group, at first out of Mount Olive, New Jersey, in the United States, and then out of Limburgerhof in Germany.