Dietrich Tegtmeyer
VP Global Development Crusting and Leather Industry Relations
LANXESS
Dietrich is Vice President at LANXESS responsible for Global Crusting Development and Leather Industry Relations. He is a chemist who started his career at Bayer in 1989, and moved with the spinoff of the chemical business in 2004 to the newly founded company LANXESS. With various positions in process development administration and R&D management he now served as senior manager for over 15 years for the leather business.
Outside the company Dietrich served as Executive Committee Member for the Leather Working Group for 4 years. In 2016/2017 he was the president of the International Union for Leather Technologists and Chemists Societies (IULTCS). Currently he is active as an executive of the German Union for Tannery Chemicals and Technologies (VGCT) and the TeGeWa, an association representing the German chemical industry.