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Issuer:     Celanese Corp (CE)
CIK:        0001306830
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2026-09-16T21:00:24+00:00
Accession:  0001306830-26-000119
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.25
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Celanese elects Luis Fernandez-Moreno to board; board expands to 11 members
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- Luis Fernandez-Moreno elected to Celanese board effective Sept 16, 2026; board size increased from 10 to 11.
- Fernandez-Moreno is independent, not yet assigned to any committee; will be compensated per non-management director practices.
- He has 40+ years in specialty chemicals, previously SVP at Ashland, EVP at Arch Chemicals, and Group VP at Dow Coatings after Rohm & Haas.
- Currently serves on boards of Ingevity and Select Water Solutions; was interim CEO of Ingevity Oct 2024-Apr 2025.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1306830/000130683026000119/0001306830-26-000119-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1306830/000130683026000119/ce-20260916.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001306830-26-000119

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