Manufacturing Magazine October 2015 | Page 35

LATIN AMERICA
incorporating the same experience of more than 130 years of chemistry from their predecessors .
Clariant manages chemical solutions from seven business units : additives , catalysts , functional minerals , industrial and consumer specialties , masterbatches , oil services and mining , and finally pigments . These are also represented by four major clusters :

Key People

Fernando Hernandez Espinosa Cuntry Head of Clariant México
Hernandez is a chemical engineer with 31 years of experience in the chemical industry . His first position in the company was as a trainee . Later on , he took a sales and technical position in pigments and plastics . In 1993 he was responsible for the entire product portfolio from the branch in Guadalajara . By 1998 he was leading Clariant ’ s operations in Central America and the Caribbean as President and CEO of that region .
In 2001 , he came back to Mexico to fill the position of Director of Pigments & Additives , strengthening domestic operations and serving the domestic market by raising exports to North America . In 2005 he took the top management post as Country Head of Clariant Mexico .
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