Lanxess CEO Matthias Zachert is no longer planning new investments in Germany, preferring to spend hundreds of millions of euros in the U.S. He explains why in an interview.

Lanxess is the world's largest maker of industrial equipment. The company has more than 100,000 employees in Germany. It is also one of the biggest employers in the United States, with more than 1.5 million employees in the US alone. It also has the largest market share in Europe, with almost half of all German jobs.