Evonik’s main investment: Indiana instead of Hanau

WITHChristian Kullmann doesn’t come in person every time Evonik celebrates the groundbreaking ceremony for a new production facility. And the CEO of the specialty chemicals group from Essen could have done a few other things in the last few days.

For example, to visit again the China Development Forum, a conference in Beijing with the participation of the leaders of companies such as Apple, Pfizer and Siemens. Or take part in the spring meeting of the chemical association VCI in Berlin, which he headed until recently, and, perhaps, at the same time talk with King Charles III of Britain. met, who, during a visit to Germany, stayed at the same hotel where the conference is being held. Instead, Kullmann traveled to the American Midwest, to Lafayette, Indiana, for an event he called “more important than anything else” in an interview with FAZ.