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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM 6-K
 
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16
OR 15D-16 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of August, 2006

(Commission File No. 1-14862 )

 
 
BRASKEM S.A.
(Exact Name as Specified in its Charter)
 
N/A
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
 

Rua Eteno, 1561, Polo Petroquimico de Camacari
Camacari, Bahia - CEP 42810-000 Brazil
(Address of principal executive offices)


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For more information, visit 
our website at 
www.braskem.com.br/ir or contact 
our IR Department. 

Contacts: 

Luiz Henrique Valverde 
Investor Relations Director 
Tel: (55 11) 3443 9744 
luiz.valverde@braskem.com.br 

Luciana Ferreira 
Investor Relations Manager 
Tel: (5511) 3443 9178 
luciana.ferreira@braskem.com.br 

Braskem divulges its new IR team
 

São Paulo, August, 10, 2006 --- BRASKEM S.A. (BOVESPA: BRKM5; NYSE: BAK; LATIBEX: XBRK), leader in the thermoplastic resins segment in Latin America and one of the three largest Brazilian privately-owned industrial companies, announces to the market its new IR team. 
 
Braskem announces that Luiz Henrique Valverde is the new Investor Relations Director of the company. Valverde is a chemical engineer and has been working in the petrochemical industry for the past 21 years and in IR for 6 years. Luiz Valverde was one of Braskem’s IR managers since its creation in August 2002.
 
The IR team also includes an IR manager, Luciana Ferreira. Luciana has been working at Braskem since last year and her experience in IR dates back to 2000, having worked for two big Brazilian public held companies in the steel and airline industries.
 
Braskem is deeply thankful to the outstanding contribution given by José Marcos Treiger, who was responsible for the Company’s IR team for almost 4 years. We wish him great success in his new professional challenges.
 
Braskem reaffirms its long term commitment with the capital markets, with the reliability, transparence and impartiality that have always been characteristic in its relationship with investors.
 
Paul Altit 
Vice-President of Finance and Investor Relations 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Braskem, a world-class Brazilian petrochemical company, is the leader in the thermoplastic resins segment in Latin American, and is among the three largest Brazilian-owned private industrial companies. The company operates 14 manufacturing plants located throughout Brazil, and it has an annual production capacity of 6.0 million tons of petrochemical and chemical products.
 
 
 
 
 

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENT DISCLAIMER

This press release contains statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking statements are only predictions and are not guarantees of future performance. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are and will be, as the case may be, subject to many risks, uncertainties and factors relating to the operations and business environments of Braskem and its subsidiaries that may cause the actual results of the companies to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the risks and uncertainties set forth from time to time in Braskem's reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Although Braskem believes that the expectations and assumptions reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable based on information currently available to Braskem’s management, Braskem cannot guarantee future results or events. Braskem expressly disclaims a duty to update any of the forward-looking statements.
   


SIGNATURES

        Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

Date: Augut 10, 2006

  BRASKEM S.A.
 
 
  By:      /s/      Paul Elie Altit
 
    Name: Paul Elie Altit
    Title: Chief Financial Officer