Exhibit 23.1

Report on Financial Statement Schedule and Consent of
Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The Board of Directors and Shareholders

Celanese Corporation:

The audits referred to in our report dated February 12, 2009 included the related consolidated financial statement schedule of Celanese Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) for each of the years in the three-year period ended December 31, 2008 included in the December 31, 2008 annual report of Celanese Corporation on Form 10-K. This consolidated financial statement schedule is the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on this consolidated financial statement schedule based on our audits. In our opinion, such consolidated financial statement schedule, when considered in relation to the basic consolidated financial statements taken as a whole, presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.

We consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements on Form S-8 (Registration Nos. 333-122789 and 333-128048) and on Form S-3 (Registration No. 333-133934) of Celanese Corporation of our reports herein.

Our report dated February 12, 2009 contains explanatory paragraphs related to the Company’s adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements, which was adopted during the year ended December 31, 2008, to the Company’s adoption of Financial Accounting Standards Board Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes, which was adopted during the year ended December 31, 2007, and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 158, Employers’ Accounting for Defined Benefit Pension and Other Postretirement Plans and Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), Share-Based Payment, both of which were adopted during the year ended December 31, 2006.

/s/  KPMG LLP

Dallas, Texas

February 12, 2009