About CHEManager

CHEManager

CHEManager — "Die Zeitung für die Märkte der Chemie und Life Sciences" (the newspaper for the chemical and life-sciences markets) — is the Weinheim industry newspaper for the executives of the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, published by the Wiley-VCH GmbH. "Das marktführende Medium für das Management der Chemie- und Pharmaindustrie" (the market-leading medium for chemical and pharmaceutical industry management): ten printed issues a year with 30,000 copies each — the data and facts on the chemical-pharmaceutical industry's companies and markets, the opinion-forming interviews on strategy and management topics, the reports on technological trends and innovations. First published in 1992, the title celebrated its 30th anniversary in July 2022.

Overview

The newspaper serves the chemical and pharmaceutical industry's leadership: the executives, the managers, the strategists — plus the adjacent industries (the life sciences, the process industry, the suppliers). The editorial program covers the management's agenda: the companies and markets (the data, the facts, the M&A), the strategy and management (the opinion-forming interviews), the technology and innovation (the trends, the reports), and the personalities (the business and science voices taking positions on current topics).

The international edition's logistics — the global distribution — deserves its telling. The CHEManager International — four times a year — appears as the digital magazine: the globally oriented topics, the English language. The 2,000-copy print run — the fairs and conferences, the selected airports and hotels — places the paper physically: the ACHEMA, the CPhI, the executive lounges. The 120,000+ recipients — Europe, North America, Asia (especially India, China) — document the reach: the email distribution, the digital delivery. The topics — the globalization's progress, the new markets' development — address the international executives: the German industry's global view, the world's chemical markets. The bilingual house — the German newspaper, the English international — serves the two audiences: the home market's depth, the world's breadth. The chemanager-online.com portal — the article archive — extends the print: the digital newspaper.

History

The first issue appeared in 1992 — in the chemical industry's post-reunification transformation: the Eastern German chemical combines' privatization, the industry's globalization, the life-sciences' rise. The Weinheim publisher — the Wiley-VCH GmbH (the German scientific publisher, part of the international Wiley group) — gave the scientific backing: the chemistry's publishing house, the industry's newspaper. The editor-in-chief — Michael Reubold — carries the title: the strategy interviews, the market reports.

The internationalization — since 2005 the English-language editions (first CHEManager Europe, since 2014 CHEManager International): four times a year as the digital magazine plus the 2,000-copy print run for fairs and conferences — responded to the globalization: the new markets' development (India, China), the globally oriented topics. The 30th-anniversary special (July 2022) documented the three decades: the industry's transformation, the newspaper's role.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the chemical executive's year. The chemical industry's transformation — the newspaper's reporting context — deserves its telling. The German chemical industry — the world's heavyweight (BASF, Bayer, Evonik, Covestro, Lanxess) — faces the structural change: the energy costs (the exploding costs, the grid fees), the regulation (the documentation and reporting duties), the competition (the US IRA, the Chinese capacity). The "Wirtschaftswende" (economic turnaround) — the industry's long-awaited course correction — dominates the debate: the 2025 election campaign's promises. The future technologies — the hydrogen, the CO2 utilization, the electrification — offer the paths: the new raw-material sources, the pipeline connections. The sustainability — the plastic recycling's race, the circular economy — creates the markets: the 4.5-megaton gap, the industry's opportunity. The chemical parks — the integrated sites, the industrial services — adapt: the strategic directions, the innovative companies' attraction. CHEManager's coverage — the markets, the strategies, the technologies — documents the transformation: the industry's navigation. The life-sciences dimension — the title's full scope — deserves its telling. The "Märkte der Chemie und Life Sciences" — the chemical and life-sciences markets — extends the newspaper beyond the classic chemistry: the pharmaceuticals, the biotechnology, the agrochemicals. The pharma industry's dynamics — the blockbusters, the biosimilars, the CDMO — mirror the chemistry's: the innovation, the regulation, the globalization. The life-sciences' convergence — the chemistry enabling the pharma (the APIs, the excipients), the biotechnology transforming the production (the fermentation, the biocatalysis) — blurs the boundaries: the integrated coverage. The executives' mobility — the managers moving between the chemistry and the pharma — unites the audience: the leadership's community. The newspaper's scope — the chemical-pharmaceutical industry plus the adjacent branches — reflects the reality: the industries' intertwining. The interview culture — the newspaper's journalistic signature — deserves its telling. The opinion-forming interviews — the strategy and management topics — give the executives the platform: the CEOs' positions, the strategists' analyses, the scientists' assessments. The personalities — the business and science voices regularly taking positions on current topics — personalize the industry: the faces behind the companies. The 30th-anniversary special (July 2022) — the jubilee issue — gathered the voices: the three decades' witnesses, the industry's evolution. The column — the "Industrieservice" (industrial services) column — voices the service providers: the parks, the utilities. The advertorials — the Oliver Wyman plastic-recycling analysis — blend the expertise: the consultancies' insights, the industry's data. The newspaper's tone — the management's language, not the laboratory's — addresses the leadership: the decisions, not the molecules.

The sites-and-services coverage — the chemical parks, the industrial services (the 4/2025 column: the structural change's beginning — the future-proofing through new technologies and sustainability, the hydrogen and CO2 pipelines, the local supply hubs) — treats the infrastructure: the locations, the services. The sustainability coverage — the plastic recycling's race (the Oliver Wyman advertorial: the 4.5-megaton supply gap for recycled plastics in Europe, the chemical industry's good starting position) — addresses the transformation: the circular economy, the opportunities.

Organization and Ownership

CHEManager is published by the Wiley-VCH GmbH, Weinheim (the German scientific publisher, part of the international Wiley group). The editor-in-chief is Michael Reubold. The ISSN (print) is 0947-4188. The business model follows the B2B trade-press pattern: the subscriptions, the advertising (the chemical and pharmaceutical industry, the suppliers, the service providers), the international edition, and the digital (the portal, the archive). The 30,000-copy print run (ten issues a year) and the 2,000-copy international print run (four issues a year) document the verified reach.

The Wiley-VCH house — the publishing context — deserves its telling. The Weinheim scientific publisher — part of the international Wiley group — publishes the chemistry's journals and books: the Angewandte Chemie, the scientific literature, the reference works. The German GmbH — the Wiley-VCH GmbH — combines the scientific publishing (the journals, the books) with the industry media (the CHEManager): the science and the business under one roof. The Weinheim seat — in the Bergstraße town near Heidelberg — places the house in the Rhine-Neckar science region: the universities, the chemical industry (BASF's Ludwigshafen nearby). The industry newspaper's role — the management's medium, not the scientists' journal — complements the portfolio: the executives' information, the markets' intelligence. The 1992 founding — the post-reunification era — shows the timing: the industry's transformation needing the newspaper. Detailed staff and revenue figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The brand's digital home is chemanager-online.com: the article archive, the current issues, the company profiles. The portal — German and English — carries the newspaper: the markets, the companies, the technologies. The CHEManager International — the digital magazine (four times a year) — reaches the 120,000+ recipients: the global edition. The PDF downloads — the issue sections (the 4/2025 sites-and-services pages) — preview the print.

The digital strategy follows the B2B logic: the print newspaper for the deep management coverage — the markets, the strategies, the technologies — the portal and the international digital magazine for the archive, the global reach, and the daily business. As the chemical and pharmaceutical industry management's market-leading medium — the 1992-founded newspaper, published by the Wiley-VCH — CHEManager remains the executives' companion: the companies, the markets, and the innovations — ten times a year from Weinheim, four times internationally.