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Dr. Anno Borkowsky was born in Cologne in 1959. After graduating as a biological-technical assistant, he studied chemistry at the University of Cologne, where he received his doctorate in 1989.
Then Borkowsky joined Bayer AG in Leverkusen as a division manager. In September 1995 he moved to Bayer Corp. as operations manager. to Orange, Texas, USA.
In 1999 he started as Technical Director at Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH - at that time a subsidiary of Bayer AG. In 2002, Borkowsky became the sole managing director of Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH. In the same year he also assumed global responsibility for the Rhein Chemie Group as CEO. When LANXESS was founded in 2004, Rhein Chemie became part of the specialty chemicals group.
In January 2015, Borkowsky took over the global management of the newly established Rhein Chemie Additives business unit. With the takeover of Chemtura in 2017, LANXESS repositioned its additives business. In this context, Borkowsky became head of the Additives business unit.
On May 13, 2019, Anno Borkowsky was appointed by the Supervisory Board of LANXESS AG as a member of the Executive Board with effect from June 1, 2019. There he is responsible for the Specialty Additives segment.
Borkowsky is married and has three children.
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LANXESS AG is a Germany-based company engaged in the chemicals sector. It specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals and plastics. Its business activities are divided into four segments: Specialty Additives, responsible for manufacture of additives for the rubber and paint industries, among others; Advanced Intermediates, focused on the development of intermediates for the agricultural, plastics, chemicals, consumer goods, construction, tire and automotive industries, among others; Performance Chemicals, which offers material protection products, inorganic pigments, finishing agents for the leather industry and resins for water treatment, among others, and Engineering Materials, which produces technical plastics, glass fibers, fiber composites and elastomers on a urethane basis for application in the automotive, electronics and electrical engineering industries. It operates around 60 production sites worldwide.