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Dirk Van Deynse

Director R&D (retired) - Tessenderlo Chemie

Dirk Van Deynse obtained a PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (Leuven University) in 1980, followed by a postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Photochemistry at the same university. He started working for Tessenderlo Chemie in 1984 as a research chemist and became Manager of the newly build pilot plant in 1989, and four years later “Chief Engineer” responsible for the development and optimization of production processes. In 1999 he was appointed director of R&D and was accepted as board member of different affiliates of the group (in Belgium, UK, Italy and China). He ended his career as Business Unit Manager of Organic Chlorinated Derivatives, and retired in November 2014.