A new management team has been put in place at Bradford chemical firm Allied Colloids - now owned by Swiss firm Ciba Speciality Chemicals.

David Farrar, former chief executive of Allied Colloids, has been named as president of the group's water treatment division at the Low Moor chemical works.

He is a member of the group's executive committee and has been given a team made up of current Allied Colloids managers and Ciba bosses.

The firm will be developed into a global textile dyes and water treatment business by Ciba. The Swiss group is also looking at what to call Allied Colloids but no decision has been made.

The new head of research and development is Tony Bell, Alan Whitehead becomes head of technical operations, Mark Wright, a Ciba employee, becomes head of human resources, Sally Seed, another Ciba worker, heads up communications.

The firm exports 80 per cent of its goods and heading up Asia Pacific sales is Colin Bowes, Helmut Gudjons is in charge of sales in Europe and Bob Bohny heads the American sales team.

Ciba Speciality Chemicals, based in Basel, fought off a hostile bid from American chemical group Hercules to acquire Allied Colloids for £1.42 billion.

The group has five other divisions - additives, consumer care, performance polymers and pigments.

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