Chemican GmbH
Consultancy, Legislation and Strategy

About Chemican GmbH

Core Consultancy Area

Regulatory affairs with particular focus on the chemicals industries (for example REACH, GHS CLP, BPD). Chemical Advocacy. The management of strategy development in the chemicals and related areas linked in particular to new product development, customer technical service and marketing.


 Background and Experience

Chemican GmbH was founded in 2010 by Dr Alan Henderson; the company is based in and registered in Switzerland in the Bern area.

Alan Henderson has  gathered together a great deal of experience in the management of technologies relating to the chemicals sector including the direction of R&D, technical service, manufacturing, legislative and technical marketing activities.

Brief CV Dr. Alan Henderson

2003-2010 Director R&D and Technical Service, Blaser Swisslube. A lubricants company in the Bern area. Member of the Executive Board. Led the REACH, CLP and BPD programmes. Responsible for global product development.

1999-2003 CTO WBB Minerals. A speciality minerals group based in the UK and Germany. Board Member. Directed as site re-location programme and directed research, development and technical service globally.

1993-1999 Director R&D and Technical Service, Grace Davison, Worms, Germany. A speciality inorganic chemicals and catalyst company. Board Member. Designed and implemented group strategy programme. Successfully directed product development in the coatings, plastics, molecular sieve and food based business areas.

1985-1993 European Technical Services Manager for Dow, Horgen Switzerland. Product Line Head. Responsible for biocides, chelants, food ingredients and water soluble polymers. Developed food ingredients business from scratch in Europe

1979-1984 Technical Manager R&D and Production. Amersham International, UK.  Radiochemicals and biotechnology products.

Speaks English and German

Education

First Class Honours Degree, Trent Nottingham, 1974
PhD in Synthetic Organic Chemistry, University of East Anglia, 1977
Pfizer Fellow 1978
MBA, OU, 1991
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 1998
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