Senior Manufacturing director Henk Veldink has had a long career in manufacturing and operational excellence in various leadership roles around the world.

With companies as Royal Wessanen, GE Plastics, DSM and Hexion Specialty Chemicals he has broad experience in the chemical, food and pharma markets.

Currently responsible for the 8 chemical manufacturing plants around the globe of the Westlake division “Hexion Coatings and Composite”.

The Pop in My Job:

Driving safety, reliability and operational excellence culture.

We have a responsibility to use chemistry in a way that makes this world better, safer, and cleaner. From renewable wind energy to automotive light-weighting to waterborne coatings, Hexion is using chemistry to help solve today’s most pressing issues to shape the future. This is the responsible path forward. This is what we call Responsible Chemistry. More than 100 years ago, our scientists started with some of the world’s first epoxy resins and synthetic plastics, better known as Bakelite®. And today, our global team of more than 4,300 associates continue to advance solutions across a broad portfolio of specialty products including: Formaldehyde Based Resins for the Forest Products industry; Basic and Specialty Epoxy Resins, Versatic™ Acids and Derivatives; Phenolic Specialty Resins; and oilfield proppants.