Boosting BYK’s presence and customer proximity in Brazil

Strategic new course set in South America

01-Sep-2025 - In founding the new company “BYK do Brasil” andappointing Carlos Roberto C. Duarte Coelho as local Managing Director,BYK is sending out a clear signal on the growing importance of the SouthAmerican market in the global context. With immediate effect, the new company with headquarters in São ...

Heike Buskies heads BYK's global Plastics Additives business

19-Aug-2024 - Heike Buskies has taken over the management of the Global Business Line Plastics Additives at BYK. She joined the additives experts BYK in October 2012 when she left Evonik and started as Sales Manager Plastics Additives for Greater Europe. In July 2021, she took over responsibility for the ...

BYK to end production of additives containing PFAS

Last shipment of products containing PFAS by end of 2025

15-Aug-2024 - For years, BYK has been actively promoting extensive research efforts towards replacing its per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with more environmentally compatible alternatives. Dr. Stefan Mößmer, Managing Director Marketing & Commercial: “As a leading manufacturer of additives, we have ...

BYK Netherlands invests in new plant for solvent based wax dispersions

The new facility aims to start commercial production end 2026

16-Jan-2024 - BYK Additives starts 2024 with a significant investment at the Deventer site in the Netherlands. On January 11, 2024, BYK Netherlands B.V. celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new factory in Deventer, the Netherlands. The new production facility will manufacture ...

New Managing Director at BYK-Chemie

Dr. Tammo Boinowitz Future President of ALTANA’s BYK Division

18-May-2020 - Dr. Tammo Boinowitz (53) will become managing director of BYK-Chemie GmbH based in Wesel as of January 1, 2021. After a two-month training and transitional phase, he will also become the President of BYK, the largest division of the specialty chemicals group ALTANA. He succeeds ...

BYK is expanding its presence in Asia through a significant investment in China

BYK Opens New Site in Shanghai

11-Apr-2019 - BYK is expanding its operations in the Shanghai region to meet the anticipated growth in demand in the key Chinese market. The Asia region accounts for one third of sales, and has made a substantial contribution to BYK in past decades. “The new site will significantly enhance our presence in the ...

BYK to build new integrated site in Shanghai

24-Jul-2017 - BYK Additives & Instruments held a groundbreaking ceremony for its new integrated site located in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park. The company is investing over 30 million euros in the new site, which combines R&D, technical services, logistics, and administrative functions under one roof and ...

Laboratory inauguration in Russia

18-Jan-2017 - BYK celebrated – together with HOMA, a manufacturer of dispersions and emulsions based in Dzerzhinsk, Russia – the opening of an ultra-modern laboratory for BYK’s application technology in Shchyolkovo, near Moscow. In a space of more than 125 m2, all the necessary conditions are now created for ...

Dr. Stephan Glander New Division President of BYK Additives & Instruments

28-May-2015 - Dr. Stephan Glander (46) has been appointed new Managing Director of BYK-Chemie GmbH, based in Wesel, Germany, and worldwide President of BYK Additives & Instruments, the largest division in terms of sales of the specialty chemicals group ALTANA. He will take up these roles as of July 1, 2015, ...

BYK Additives & Instruments products win innovation awards

26-Nov-2012 - At the China Composite Expo in Shanghai, BYK presented its latest processing additives and application development for composite industry. The CCE-JEC Innovation Awards were presented for the eighth year in a row, with 32 composite products / solutions from30 companies nominated, and ten of them ...