Carsten Buchaly

Carsten Buchaly serves as the Head of Production at BASF since August 2018, overseeing manufacturing activities at the Knapsack Site, which includes three production units and a dispatch facility. Prior to this, Carsten Buchaly was Plant Manager at Bayer Crop Science from March 2008 to July 2018, managing all functions in Mobile and facilitating the transfer of assets from Bayer to BASF. Additional roles include Start-Up & Plant Manager for a greenfield project, 2nd Plant Manager in Dormagen overseeing herbicide production, and Group Head for Crop Protection & Specialities within the Technology Development Division. Early career experience encompasses project management positions related to process technology and conceptual design. Carsten Buchaly holds a Dr.-Ing. and a Dipl.Ing. in Chemie-Ingenieur from TU Dortmund, earned between 1998 and 2007.