Ms. Plueckhan started her career with Hoechst in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1997, she joined Clariant, when Clariant acquired Hoechst’s textile chemicals business. There she gathered in-depth experience in marketing and sales roles, in regional or sub-regional areas in Europe.
In 2013, she joined Archroma, when the company was created from Clariant’s Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties, and Emulsions businesses, as Head of Sales, Cluster Europe, Textile Specialties Business, in August 2015, and Head of Sales Textile Specialties and Emulsion Products for Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Eastern Europe (DACHEE) in January 2016. In September 2016, she became took over the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region, and focuses on Europe since June 2020 when EMEA was reorganized in two Sales Cluster. She is in charge of all regional operations, in addition to sales, since November 2020.
Ms. Plueckhan holds a Diploma in Textile Engineering from Fachhochschule Kaiserslautern, Germany.