Paul Felsheim

Celanese is a global technology and specialty materials company that engineers and manufactures a wide variety of products essential to everyday living. As a recognized product and process technology innovator, we help to create applications that meet the needs of our customers worldwide. Our highly-diversified product portfolio serves a broad range of end-use applications including paints and coatings, textiles, automotive applications, consumer and medical applications, performance industrial applications, filter media, paper and packaging, chemical additives, construction, consumer and industrial adhesives, and food and beverage applications. Our products hold leading positions in the industries we serve worldwide and are complimented by a large global production capacity, operating efficiencies, proprietary production technology and competitive cost structures. Based in Dallas, Texas and with an employee base of approximately 7,600 worldwide; we serve our customers through operations located primarily in North America, Europe and Asia with 27 production facilities and an additional 8 strategic affiliate production facilities. Our net sales totaled $6.8 billion in 2011, with approximately 73% generated outside of North America