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June 2011
When fully operational, this plant will New plant of Performance Additives of America
manufacture specialty chemicals
predominantly for export into the ASPAC
and European marketplace. The plant is
located in New Philadelphia (Ohio) on a
3.5 acre site, with plenty of space for
future expansion.
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North America, Performance Additives will Behn Meyer R&D Services was founded
be globally positioned on three continents, last year as an independent company to
which is an almost unique position for a provide laboratory services to the
specialty chemical manufacturer. companies within the Behn Meyer Group
in the ASEAN region and also in Europe.
The European Company will be operating
under the name of "Performance The lab centre will give support for all the
Additives Italy, S.P.A. " companies within the chemical Behn
Meyer group for developing new products
and applications, specializing in chemicals
for the rubber and plastics industry as well
as food additives. And since there are
already other application labs for rubber
and food in Malaysia, it can be expected
that some synergistic effects will exist.
A 500 sqm state of the art multi-purpose We are pleased to inform you that
lab has now been established and is since Jan. 2011 Behn Meyer Philippines,
equipped with a range of modern Inc is operational. This operation is a
analytical instruments such as FT- IR wholly owned subsidiary of Behn Meyer
Spectrometer, Differential Scanning Chemical Holdings (S) Pte Ltd, which is
Calorimetry, Thermogravimetric Analyzer our Chemical Group holding company
and equipment for chromatographic based in Singapore. This operation is fully
methods. Once fully operational there will licensed to import, store, distribute and
be a staff of 12 chemists and technicians sell industrial chemicals. The warehousing
working at the new laboratory. and logistics facilities are available to
provide ground logistical support facilities
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to our customers as well as to our Behn Meyer Team Worldwide
principals.
We are proud to announce that due to the
This operation is headed by Dr. Tay Kin rapid expansion in the last months we are
Bee, Chief Executive Officer, who is also now a team of 875 employees spread
concurrently the Chief Executive Officer of over 11 countries. The distribution is as
Behn Meyer Specialty Chemicals LLP following:
Singapore.
Overall Employees BM Group
Indonesia 173
As for the business sectors, initially we
Malaysia 275
will be focusing on the Food Ingredients &
Myanmar 4
Raw Materials, Animal Feed, Water Philippines 9
Treatment, Process Industries, Paint & Thailand 116
Ink, Petroleum and Petrochemicals Singapore 45
Plants, Personal Care, Plastics and the Vietnam 119
Rubber sectors. As business opportunities Germany 19
and sales talent present themselves we Netherlands 1
will be expanding our business into other Performance Additives Malaysia 54
industrial chemical sectors as well. Performance Additives Italy 56
Performance Additives USA 4
We would be most glad to extend this Total 875
marketing and logistics infrastructure &
network to all our existing principals and We welcome all our new colleagues to
suppliers in order to help promote mutual the Behn Meyer family!
growth in this market.
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NEWS OF THE LAST 6 MONTHS Behn Meyer Foodtech and Naturex SA
organized a Natural Food Seminar Talk
JUNE 2011 to Malaysian food processors
UPM Changsu Paper Mill’s Paper With the growing trend in the food
Making and Product Presentation industries for all things “natural” and
“additives free”, Behn Meyer Foodtech
On 23rd June 2011, Behn Meyer organized on 26 May 2011 a full day
International (S) Pte Ltd welcomed Mr seminar on “Ultimate Botanical Benefits
Ricky Ang, Deputy Technical Sales for Innovative Food & Beverage solutions”
Director together with Ms Stella Ng and with Naturex SA for customers at the
Ms Karin Lee from UPM-Kymmene Asia Holiday Inn Glenmarie Resort in Shah
Pacific Pte Ltd to our office for the much Alam. The response from the customers
anticipated “Paper Making and Product was great with a total of 89 customers
Presentation” to our Singapore and participating in the seminar. They were
Malaysia staff. from various sectors of the food and
beverages market, such as the savory,
UPM is a leading manufacturer in the bio health food and supplements, oil & fats
and forest industries with headquarters in and confectionary segments. It contained
Finland and production plants in 15 various talks by the product managers
countries. The Changsu mill started and a product show related to the
operations in 1999 and currently produces emerging trend for natural, healthy and
about 920,000 tonnes of coated, uncoated safe ingredients being used in food
wood free and cut-size papers. industries.
Mr Wang started the presentation with Mr Oliver Meyer of Behn Meyer Foodtech
some interesting slides on the pulp and opened the event with a warm welcome
paper making process, the UPM Changsu and introduced the four speakers from
mill and lastly, the classification of papers. France, Mr Paul Janthial (Business
It ended with a well participated Question manager’s of Nat Healthy), Mr Baptiste
and Answer session. Demur (Business manager’s of Nat
Stabil), Mr Bruno Griffoul (Business
The participants were very enthusiastic manager’s of Nat color) and Mr Lionel
and acquired a lot of useful knowledge Lesegretain (Business manager’s of Nat
from this interesting presentation by Mr color).
Wang. The positive feedback from the
participants shows that their gained The first topic presented was from Nat
knowledge will certainly be beneficial in Healthy on turning food into healthy food.
A line of botanical extracts known for their
their daily sales liaisons with clients - as
beneficial effect on health formulated for
will the copy of UPM’s latest book titled the functional food and beverage
“Making Paper” which was presented to manufacturers. A lot of products were
each of them. shared using these ingredients, which aim
to provide health benefits.
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Lumpur at the Holiday Inn Glenmarie
Hotel in order to find areas where
communication can be improved both
internally and externally. The group’s aim
is to have a more congruent and
professional approach to corporate
communication.
On 18-19 May 2011 Behn Meyer held a Personal Care Team together with Mr Adrian Tan
from Chemrez in HCMC office
Corporate Identity Workshop in Kuala
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In the afternoon the Behn Meyer regional was showcased at the booth attracted a
Personal Care Team discussed about the lot of attention.
developments in each country. On the
following day the team went to Vung Tau The new heat tolerant version of Hemicell
Village where they shared information HT was officially launched during the
about common suppliers and future show and will now be made available to
opportunities. Colleagues from Vietnam, the industry. Hemicell's superior matrix
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand values together with the opportunity to
and Germany then participated at the use a heat stable powder was met with
event to strengthen regional teamwork huge excitement by feed millers from all
and to benefit from regional experiences. over Southeast Asia.
After the meeting the team enjoyed a
delicious dinner at the seaside followed by Behn Meyer At The Indonesia Oil Palm
sightseeing the next day.
Centenary Celebrations, Medan
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estate in North Sumatra and the Sei Liput Seminar in Ho Chi Minh City
estate in Aceh were the first two palm
plantations to be established. Indonesia The MANAGEMENT FOR MIDDLE
has been the world’s largest palm oil MANAGERS event was held on March
producer since 2009 and today, with 7.4 25-27th 2011 at No 36, street 6, Vietnam
million hectares of oil palm planted, has a Singapore Industrial Park 1, Thuan An
total production of 20.9 million tons district, Binh Duong province. It was
followed by Malaysia with an output of organized and conducted by the P.A.C.E
17.7 million tons. And in 2011, Indonesia’s Training Center and attended by twenty
production is expected to increase to 22 four managers from Behn Meyer,
million tons. Vietnam.
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and calculate the number of diffusers
needed in Wastewater Treatment
Systems.
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is an FSC CoC printer who purchases Part 2 – Social Events
FSC paper and board from BMIS to print
quality books for& both local and Sport Event in Germany
overseas markets.
The “Behn Meyer Sprinters” were fighting
The participants also attend the BMIS PB on June 21st for the “b2run” German
Division's monthly meeting where championships 2011. The “b2run” is one
everyone benefits from discussion on of the biggest national sport events for
subjects shared by both countries. Topics companies in Germany with a charity
may range from the market situation to background. Michelle Fernandez Bieber,
competitors' pricing and products, Irene Bruns, Torsten Lindhauer and
encountering problems and finding Ditmar Hendess were running for Behn
solutions. Meyer Europe. More than 200 different
companies and about 2.600 sportsmen
Hemicell in Germany took part and ran a distance of 6,2 km.
Perfect weather conditions, a great
As of 1 January 2011 Behn Meyer Europe
atmosphere and team spirit were the
promotes Hemicell from Chemgen, USA
reasons for a successful finish.
in Germany. Mr Ditmar Hendess got
training from Mr Karl Poulsen, Director of
European sales from Chemgen as well as
from colleagues in Malaysia and Thailand.
Since then he has been approaching
customers in the poultry sector.
December 2010
Seminar in Bangkok
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doubles matches and the Grey team
winning both singles matches.
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A visit to Johor Cheshire Home home. In addition to this, the Club also
contributed various sundry items, which
Members of Kelab Sukan Behn Meyer had been requested by the Home.
Johor recently visited Johor Cheshire
Home as a part of their charity program.
The visit was held on 6th March 2011 at
the Home, which is located at Kampung Annual Dinner & Dance in Singapore -
Ungku Mohsin in Johor Bahru. 10 December 2010
The late HRH Sultan Ibrahim of Johore The BM Singapore group of companies
initiated Johor Cheshire Home’s held its Annual Dinner & Dance 2010 on
establishment. It began with the formation 10 December 2010 at the Galleria
of a Management Committee on 1st Ballroom, Grand Copthorne Waterfront
February 1959 and the home now has a Hotel. Many previous Annual Dinner &
total of 33 residents who are looked after Dances were held at restaurants and
by 15 employees. country clubs with the last three being
held in nature parks at Labrador Park,
Those taking part in the visit included Hort Park and East Coast Park. This
representatives from Behn Meyer & Co’s year, however, the organizing committee
FE Division, namely Mr Teo Tee Seng finally decided to hold its Annual Dinner &
(FEJB Marketing Manager), Mr Yong Dance at a hotel instead.
Ching Yun (President of Kelab Sukan
Behn Meyer Johor), Pn Rohaya Hashim, The theme of this year's event was "AN
Pn Nazlimas & Mr Chin Kok Fuk. EXPLOSION OF COLOUR" with staff
being encouraged to come to the party in
The representatives from Behn Meyer their most colourful outfits. And what a
International Trading’s Paper & Board surprise, the most colourful staff member
Division, which included Mr Tieu Sin to walk into the ballroom was Vincent
Rong, Mdm Heah Bee Ling, Mr Eric Lee Khoo in a colourful "Crown". Everyone
and Mr Steven Goh, joined them. Some of thought he was one of the performing
the participants also brought along their artists!
family members to be a part of this
experience. A total of three men and three ladies who
had dressed colourfully for the evening
went up on stage to show off their
costumes. The two most colourfully
dressed contestants were chosen as
Vincent Khoo and Vasuki and their fine
efforts were rewarded with shopping
vouchers.
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The pre-event setting of a mini casino was
very much enjoyed by all the staff who
tried their luck - but winning wasn’t the
real deal. Mr Kyle Ravin, a young
illusionist who amazed everyone with his
life-defying sword piercing act - and an
impossible levitation act involving one of
our guests, provided the evening’s main
entertainment. Everyone had a great
night that was full of fun, laughter, magical
surprises and a wonderful eight-course
dinner.
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