EFCG
The Board of the European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG) announces that the 6th EFCG Annual Dinner will be held on 23 October 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany, at The InterContinental Hotel.
Guy Villax, CEO of Hovione, Portugal and Chairman of the Annual Dinner Organising Committee, said: “We wish to encourage a wide Fine Chemicals Industry participation to celebrate the occasion. We look forward to meeting high level executives of our customers and EFCG members. It will be an entertaining, thought provoking and a must-attend, annual European networking event.”
Facilities for a cocktail reception before dinner and a four-course dinner for 300+ guests have been booked from 7 pm onwards, with post-dinner networking available until midnight.
Dr. Rudolf Hanko, CEO of Siegfried AG and member of the Organising Committee, said: “I am delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Utz-Hellmuth Felcht has agreed to be our after-dinner speaker. Prof. Felcht has been the driving force behind the transformation process of Europe's specialty chemicals industry creating Degussa, today's Evonik, as the largest member of this sector. Today, he is a partner in the private equity group One Equity Partners Europe GmbH, Chairman of Germany`s Deutsche Bahn AG, a non-Executive Director of CRH plc in Dublin, Ireland, and a member of the Supervisory Board of Jungbunzlauer Holding AG in Switzerland."
The dinner has been specially created to bring together top management from the European Fine Chemicals Industry to celebrate Europe’s excellence in chemistry, technology and high compliance standards, with their counterparts in the worldwide innovator industries in a comfortable, first class location.
For further information and table booking discounts and for a 12-month free EFCG membership option, contact GKV Touristik at efcg@gkv-touristik.de.
European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG), +32 2 676 7244, abo@cefic.org, www.efcg.cefic.org.