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About  /  Ruth Watts

Ruth Watts

BASF: The Chemical Company


Ruth Watts is the product marketing manager for BASF's Biopolymers Group in North America. In this role, Watts performs business and market development for packaging and agricultural applications.

Watts has spent more than 20 years developing business opportunities with barrier technologies throughout the value chain, specifically in foodservice packaging. In addition to participating on the Conserve Advisory Council, Watts represents BASF on the Foodservice Packaging Institute's Paper Recovery Alliance and Plastic Recovery Group.

Watts has a bachelor of science. in business administration from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and has completed many executive management courses from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Management and University of Virginia's Darden School of Management.

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