Prominent industry figure to retire
Head of business development and industry relations at leather chemicals group TFL, Dr Dietrich Tegtmeyer, has announced his retirement.
A past president of the International Union of Leather Technologists’ and Chemists’ Societies (IULTCS), Dr Tegtmeyer worked at Lanxess for many years.
He held sales and marketing roles in the leather business unit before becoming head of product development there in 2005, following the retirement of Dr Wolfgang Wenzel. This role developed into an business development and industry relations brief in the course of the 2010s.
In this capacity, he was frequently on the speaker list at industry events in all parts of the world and used this experience to launch Lanxess’s own series of leather industry seminars in Cologne in 2016 with the aim of spelling out to finished product brands the value and qualities of leather.
When TFL finalised its acquisition of Lanxess’s organic leather chemicals business in 2021, Dr Tegtmeyer continued in the same business development and industry relations role there.
