Dr. Yun Chen will take over the leadership of European production for Covestro’s Performance Materials (PM) Business Entity. In this position, he succeeds Dr. Daniel Koch, who is leaving the company at the end of January at his own request.

After three successful years as head of Performance Materials Operations APAC, Chen will assume the role of production head for Covestro’s European sites starting in February. The chemical engineer, who earned his doctorate in Germany, began his professional career at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site. With more than three decades of experience in various positions at Covestro and Bayer, Chen brings not only technical expertise but also comprehensive international industry knowledge and long-standing leadership experience.

In his nearly 30 years of experience, Chen has held numerous leadership positions within the group. After studying chemical engineering in Beijing and Shanghai, Chen earned his Ph.D. at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt. In 1994, he began his career with Bayer AG at the Krefeld-Uerdingen site. Here, he took on various positions with increasing responsibility.

In 2001, Chen moved to Shanghai, where he helped build up polycarbonate production as plant manager and from 2008 took over production and technology management for the corresponding business unit. In 2017, Chen was appointed Senior Vice President and Head of Covestro Integrated Site Shanghai (CISS), the company’s largest single production site worldwide. Most recently, in 2021, he took on the additional role of Production Manager Performance Materials Asia Pacific.