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2016. Administrative functions continued to have the small-
est share of employees Group-wide, with 873 people working
in this area in 2016 (previous year: 876).
In terms of regions, there were only slight shifts in 2016.
The European Group companies continued to employ by
far the largest number of people worldwide (3,850 compared
to 3,991 in the previous year). At the end of the year,
3,126 people worked in Germany (previous year: 3,255), the
majority of them at ECKART’s and BYK’s largest production
and development sites, in Hartenstein and Wesel, respectively.
Staff levels in the Americas increased slightly, from
1,352 people in 2015 to 1,376 people at the end of 2016.
By contrast, the number of employees in the Asian Group
companies decreased slightly, from 753 in the previous year
to 741 staff members.
At the end of the 2016 fiscal year, 1,552 women and
4,415 men worked at ALTANA. On the balance-sheet date,
90 % of all employees had an unlimited employment contract
and 10 % a limited employment contract. This ratio was
the same for both genders. Of the women employees, 77 %
worked full-time and 23 % part-time at the end of 2016.
98 % of the male employees worked full-time. Apart from
its own employees, the ALTANA Group had 179 contract
workers at the end of 2016.
ALTANA competes internationally for specialists and man-
agers. Like all companies in the chemical industry, in the
years to come the ALTANA Group, particularly in Europe, will
enter a phase that due to the demographic development
makes precise succession planning indispensable already today.
To be able to hold our own in this environment, we
launched further initiatives and implemented various mea-
sures in 2016. All measures introduced to strengthen
ALTANA’s corporate culture and to further develop our human
resource management are carried out based on our
Employees by functional area
1
4
2
3
16.1 %
17.1 %
52.2 %
14.6 %
Dec. 31,
2015
Dec. 31,
2016
Δ %
1 Production and logistics 3,216 3,114 - 3
2 Marketing and sales 955 959 0
3 Research and development 1,049 1,021 - 3
4 Administration 876 873 0
Total 6,096 5,967 - 2
Employees by region
1 2
3
23.1 %
12.4 %
64.5 %
Dec. 31,
2015
Dec. 31,
2016
Δ %
1 Europe 3,991 3,850 - 4
thereof Germany 3,256 3,126 - 4
2 Americas 1,352 1,376 2
thereof U.S. 1,067 1,095 3
3 Asia 753 741 - 2
thereof China 460 443 - 4
Total 6,096 5,967 - 2