Raymond Palmen has just been appointed Director for DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers for the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region. Effective January 1st 2015, he therefore takes over from Thomas Oury, who is moving on to DuPont Performance Polymers, as Regional Director EMEA.

Raymond Palmen joined DuPont in 1988. Most recently he was Director of Sourcing & Logistics EMEA for DuPont de Nemours International SA. He has also worked as EMEA Director for a number of divisions within the company, such as Chemicals, Fluoroproducts (Teflon®), Textiles & Interiors, and Corporate Planning. Previous to that, he worked for ten years in various roles within the Lycra® Division.

A graduate of the Solvay Business School at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels, Raymond is fluent in four languages. He has lived in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France.