Total Petrochemicals President of Base Chemicals Carl Van Camp was recently appointed President of Fedichem, the federation of Belgium’s chemical industries. Carl Van Camp was previously Vice President of Fedichem and Chairman of the Economy and Energy Committee.

His priorities are innovation and research, product policy and especially preparing the sector for REACH (*), sustainable development and improving competitiveness in Belgium’s chemicals industry.

(*) REACH: Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals; described in the EU white paper ‘Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy’.