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2005/11/9 Lanxess

サルティゴ(
Saltigo) - ハイテック化学の新しい名前
ランクセスの精密化学品のスピンオフが始まる

ビジネスユニット精密化学品は、新名称、新方向、そして新ビジネスモデルで、別法人として 来年 ランクセスから独立する。 「2006 年の第2四半期以降、世界中に私たちの精密化学品の専門知識を、ランクセスの全額出資子会社であるサルティゴ(Saltigo)から販売します。」と、ビジネスユニット精密化学品の責任者であり、サルティゴ(Saltigo)の代表取締役に任命された、アクセル ヴェスタハウス博士が マドリッドで開催された精密化学品において権威のある国際医薬品原料・中間体見本市で、述べた。
社員によって提案されたサルティゴ(Saltigo)の名前は、イタリア語で“飛ぶ“という意味の”saltare”を基に、活力に満ちた成功した未来への躍進ということを意味する。
サルティゴ(Saltigo)は、医薬品、農薬、特殊化学製品分野の顧客の為の受託ソリューションを開発、製造、販売する。

LANXESS plans package of measures to speed development at Saltigo

 

Bayer sets allotment ratio for Lanxess shares at 10 to 1

LANXESS sees itself as an independent company that is well-positioned for the future

LANXESS、中国での活動強化 ヒドラジン水和物JV設立

LANXESS inaugurates hydrazine hydrate plant in Weifang

Lanxess closes rubber, fiber plants at Marl, Goch, Germany

Chinese JV for antioxidants for the rubber industry

Restructuring in fine chemicals and styrenic resins business units of Lanxess

Second phase of restructuring

Lanxess to cut jobs and restructure styrenics

Important element of second package of restructuring measures negotiated (NBR in France)

LANXESS subsidiary Rhein Chemie to consolidate U.S. production in Chardon, Ohio

旭化成、ランクセス・グループからスパンデックス事業譲受け

LANXESS invests more than EUR 20 million in new capacities in Germany

LANXESS opens engineering plastics compounding plant in China

LANXESS expands compounding capacities for high-tech plastics in China

LANXESS'Styrenic Resins has a new name: Lustran Polymers

Lanxess opens the new European headquarters of Lustran Polymers in Spain

LANXESS invests in chloroprene rubber

LANXESS realigns its EPDM rubber business

ランクセス、繊維加工用化学品事業を売却

LANXESS acquires the chrome chemicals business in South Africa and divests textile processing chemicals business in North America

LANXESS invests in new site in China

"LANXESS has not made an offer for Degussa"

LANXESS increases capacities for EPDM rubber

LANXESS opens new plant in China

Lanxess is prepared to pay 4-6 bln eur for Degussa

LANXESS and Hankook Tire sign long-term supply contract of SBR and polybutadiene rubber

LANXESS projects significant new investment in butyl rubber in Asia

LANXESS presses ahead with worldwide butyl rubber expansion

INEOS agrees joint venture with LANXESS to operate the ABS plastics business

LANXESS builds new ion exchange facility in India

Lanxess invests Eur10 million in Dormagen EVA copolymer

Lanxess walked away from talks to buy Petroflex of Brasil

LANXESS to acquire Petroflex chemicals group of Brazil

LANXESS: Petroflex to become a wholly owned subsidiary

LANXESS' new segment structure

LANXESS announces restructuring of Sarnia Site to maintain competitive leadership in global rubber industry

LANXESS to produce up to 100,000 tpa of butyl rubber in Singapore

LANXESS: Production in Singapore to start in 2014

LANXESS breaks ground for most modern rubber plant in Asia

LANXESS makes first acquisition of pigment plants in China

LANXESS opens Rubber Research Center in Qingdao

Lanxess: Reported bid for DSM's EPDM division

LANXESS responds to global economic crisis and shifts investments

LANXESS Acquires Polyol Specialist in China

LANXESS completes acquisitions in India and China

LANXESS divests Chinese joint venture stake

Lanxess in talks to buy rubber group Eliokem

LANXESS: new Jhagadia site up and running

LANXESS starts up new plant for ion exchange resins in India

LANXESS and TSRC to create rubber joint venture in China

LANXESS expands capacity of butyl rubber plant in Belgium

LANXESS: Largest Leather Chemicals investment in China ever

LANXESS to acquire DSM Elastomers

LANXESS produces five millionth metric ton of caprolactam

LANXESS steps up commitment to biobased raw materials

LANXESS Acquires Syngentas Material Protection Business

ランクセス、高性能ゴムの製造能力を米国で増強

LANXESS selects Singapore as site for worlds largest Nd-PBR plant

LANXESS to break ground in Singapore for world’s largest Nd-PBR plant in September, 2012

Lanxess in talks about acquiring Taminco

Lanxess quits talks to buy Taminco from CVC

Lanxess、カプロラクタムとグラスファイバーを増設

LANXESS to produce first bio-based EPDM rubber in the world

LANXESS to expand its EPDM operations in the Netherlands

LANXESS strengthens commitment to Brazilian automotive sector

LANXESS strengthens global phthalate-free plasticizer portfolio

LANXESS strengthens commitment to renewable raw materials with investment in BioAmber

LANXESS strengthens its butyl rubber site in Belgium

LANXESS starts up new nitrile butadiene rubber plant in China

LANXESS builds new plant for polyamide in Belgium

LANXESS to build world’s largest EPDM plant in China

Bitish Plastics & Rubber September 17, 2006

Lanxess says it's time to stop consolidating and to start expanding

Lanxess has formally launched itself on the acquisition trail. After 18 months of consolidation since it was created from a group of businesses not fitting with the new Bayer life sciences image, Lanxess has declared itself not only seeking acquisitions, but able to spend a lot of money.
     In a series of presentations to shareholders, analysts and the media in this past week the company rammed home its break from a volume-led business approach as part of Bayer to a greater focus on profitability - and thereby shareholder value.
     Since its independence Lanxess has reorganised, closed and sold operations that were unlikely to meet its profit targets, and has declared a pre-tax profit of 5 per cent as a minimum level at which it will retain businesses by 2009.
     Chairman Axel Heitmann described the Lanxess philosophy as 'a profit-driven portfolio approach'. 'Lanxess is in business to make money. We will give up production volume if it is not profitable.'
     Since January 2005 Lanxess has initiated cost savings of Eur 260 million in four restructuring phases in which it has closed several sites, optimised its manufacturing and administration processes, and spun off its fine chemicals and styrenic polymers businesses into self-determining subsidiaries Saltigo and Lustran Polymers. The styrenics business, now cut down to concentrating on speciality grades of ABS and coloured compounds, opens its doors as Lustran on October 1. Lanxess has also sold its Fiber and Paper Chemicals business units and intends to sell its Textile Processing Chemicals business by the end of this year.


September 28, 2004 Bayer            

New joint venture strengthens business in China
LANXESS in China
managing chemistry
Weifang: New site sets LANXESS on course for growth
http://www.press.bayer.com/News/News.nsf/id/665C2EC35E473A22C1256F1C0036B14E

Bayer AG has reorganized practically all of its chemicals operations and large parts of its polymer activities into a new company called LANXESS, which is subject to the approval of Bayer AG's stockholders' meeting, will be spun off and its shares will be distributed to the existing shareholders of Bayer AG.

Aiming for success with clear objectives - in China and worldwide
The LANXESS Shanghai Pigments Company manufactures color pigments in Shanghai for use in the Chinese construction and paint industries. Bayferrox® and chrome oxide pigments for coloring a diverse range of products, such as concrete parts, roofing tiles, paints and coatings, plastics, paper and special pigments for toners and other applications, have been proving their mettle for many years now. The products offer high standards of quality as well as being simple and environmentally friendly to process.

In 1999, the
Rhein Chemie (Qingdao) Ltd. began producing additives for the rubber and mineral oil industries. Lubricant additives, for example, are used everywhere where there is a need to prevent friction, frictional heat and wear and to protect material against corrosion. Rhein Chemie has established itself in the lubricant industry as one of the leading additive manufacturers for industrial lubricants.

Today the leather business unit has the highest sales volume amongst all the business units of LANXESS in China. The company offers its customers cutting-edge products and technologies coupled with application-specific expertise. The
LANXESS Wuxi Leather Chemicals Company, founded in conjunction with the Wuxi Dyestuff Factory, has been producing leather chemicals since 1998 in Wuxi, north-west of Shanghai.

LANXESS - Top company in a growth market

A joint-venture company is therefore to be set up in collaboration with the Weifang Yaxing Chemicals Company in Beijing on September 28, 2004. This is a further instance of LANXESS' concept of flexible, goal-focussed management of the chemicals business. The purpose of the joint venture is to manufacture hydrazine hydrate, whose market is currently enjoying annual growth rates running into double figures.      ヒドラジン水和物

With its involvement in Weifang LANXESS (* LANXESS Yaxing Chemical (Weifang) Company Ltd. )expects to become one of the leaders on the Chinese hydrazine hydrate market for three reasons: "We will have a production unit with very high capacity, we will offer the best quality and we also will be way out in front in terms of process engineering," said Wang Yongli, President of the LANXESS Chemical Company in China.

Weifang - a viable location with a strong partner

Weifang Yaxing Chemicals Company is an ideal joint-venture partner for manufacturing top-quality hydrazine hydrate. And Weifang is also the perfect location for such a facility. For this reason,
LANXESS will transfer its hydrazine hydrate plant from its site in Baytown, Texas, USA, to Weifang, which is intended to begin supplying the Chinese and international market from the end of 2005.


September 28, 2004 Bayer                WEIFANG :山東省維坊
                                 
Weifang Yaxing Chemical :維坊亜星化学

LANXESS intensifies operations in China
New chemicals joint venture
http://www.press.bayer.com/News/News.nsf/id/1EF7B0C599FD6CBEC1256F1C0036567A

Leverkusen-based chemicals company LANXESS and the Weifang Yaxing Chemical Company Ltd. of Weifang are founding a joint-venture company to manufacture hydrazine hydrate, an intermediate for the chemical industry. Hydrazine hydrate is used by the agro and the pharmaceutical industry as well as for the production of plastic additives and for water conditioning. LANXESS will own 55 percent, meaning the Weifang Yaxing Chemical Company's stake will be 45 percent.
"We're looking to achieve concerted growth in China," says Dr. Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of the LANXESS Board of Management. "And we're collaborating with expert partners in order to reach this goal. It means we can cost-effectively tap into new markets and develop existing market positions without having to make large investments."

LANXESS: Top company in a growth market

Partnering for better performance
The joint-venture company will be called
LANXESS Yaxing Chemical (Weifang) Company Ltd. and headquartered in Weifang in Shandong province, China. Dr. Ming Guang Chen of LANXESS is the designated general manager of the new company.

LANXESS has over 550 employees in Mainland China and Hong Kong and currently three production facilities in Shanghai, Qingdao, Wuxi and a soon to count Weifang among these sites.


Backgrounder hydrazine hydrate
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Hydrazine hydrate is a colorless liquid with a smell similar to ammonia. The substance was synthesized for the first time by German chemist Julius Wilhelm Theodor Curtius in 1887. He had his discovery patented in Germany and the USA.
Hydrazine hydrate is sold in different concentrations. The LANXESS Yaxing (Weifang) Chemicals Company Ltd. production facility will be capable of manufacturing 64 %, and therefore the best quality hydrazine hydrate. With the launch of production in Weifang, it will be the only plant in China to produce hydrazine hydrate of this quality.

The possibilities for use and potential application areas of this inorganic substance as an intermediate for the chemicals industry are extremely varied. Hydrazine hydrate is used by the agro- and pharmaceutical industry as well as for the production of plastic additives.

It is used as an intermediate for chemical synthesis and, for example, for the production of azodicarbonamide, a blowing agent for the foaming of plastics. Foam plastics are processed in many consumer goods as for shoes, furniture and cars.

The pharmaceuticals industry requires hydrazine hydrate to manufacture medicines, including those for the treatment of TB, forms of depression and hypertension. And for crop protection products, hydrazine is a vital intermediate for growth regulators, for instance.

A further important application for hydrazine hydrate is corrosion protection in closed water circuits. As an antioxidant, it protects pipes from rust and premature aging, particularly in the steam circuits of the power industry, thus significantly increasing plant reliability.


Bayer 2004/10/6

Bayer sets allotment ratio for Lanxess shares at 10 to 1
http://www.press.bayer.com/news/news.nsf/id/2004-0591

- Stockholders to vote on the spin-off on November 17
- Lanxess issues EUR 200 million mandatory convertible bond to Bayer

In connection with the planned spin-off of new chemical company Lanxess, stockholders of Bayer AG will be granted one Lanxess share for every ten Bayer shares that they hold. This is provided for in the Spin-Off and Acquisition Agreement to be voted on at an Extraordinary Stockholders' Meeting in Essen on November 17.

Lanxess net debt EUR 1.5 billion
Lanxess will have net debt of approximately EUR 1.5 billion, including pension commitments, when the spin-off takes effect. The financial liabilities to the Bayer Group are to be redeemed by drawing on a syndicated credit line. This EUR 1.0 to 1.5 billion credit line will consist of a short-term and a long-term tranche.

Trading relationship will continue
Bayer and Lanxess will continue to trade with each other despite their separation, with supply and service agreements running for between one and seven years. Some of these agreements include exclusive supply relationships, especially for strategically important products.


日本経済新聞 2004/11/26夕刊

独バイエル 化学子会社を完全分離 来年1月上場 事業絞り込み

 独バイエルは25日、化学事業子会社ランクセスの株式を来年1月に上場させると
発表した。バイエルは化学に加え、医薬などヘルスケア、農業化学、素材科学の4事業による分社経営だが、ランクセスヘの出資をゼロにして完全分離。医薬など高付加価値事業に絞ってグループ経営を進める。

 化学は自動車と並ぶドイツの基幹産業で、第二次大戦後は化学・医薬兼業のBASFとヘキスト、バイエルの三大総合化学メーカー体制が続いてきた。だが、ヘキストは仏社と合併して仏バイオ大手のアベンティスに変身。BASFは医薬部門を売却して化学専業となった。今回バイエルが医薬などに特化することで、ドイツの総合化学時代は名実ともに終わる。 


November 25, 2004 LANXESS

LANXESS sees itself as an independent company that is well-positioned for the future
http://mediarelations.lanxess.de/lanxess/lnxnews.nsf/752d3bba3f96c9a8c1256e63003f4426/6f3c9a5109a2ac46c1256f57002be8bc/$FILE/2004-0708E.rtf

Major European chemicals producer makes competitiveness and earnings power elements of its core strategy
Sales in first nine months grow 4.5 percent to EUR 5.0 billion
EBITDA margin increases to more than 7 percent
First investments announced

A new global company presents itself to the public today: formed from the chemicals arm and some of the polymers activities of Bayer AG, LANXESS will begin operating as an independent company at the start of 2005. A completely new company with some 20,000 employees, its own corporate structure and 2003 sales of EUR 6.3 billion (based on the combined financial statements) has been created in record time since the decision was taken to spin off these operations in November 2003.

LANXESS has four segments, each of which already reports annual sales of well over EUR 1 billion.
The Performance Rubber segment specializes in solid rubber for the rubber and tire industries. LANXESS is thus a leading partner to the global tire industry.

Engineering Plastics focuses on the production of high-quality plastics for electrical and electronics appliances, furniture, sports and leisure applications and automotive engineering.

The Chemical Intermediates segment comprises basic chemicals, intermediates for the pharmaceuticals and crop protection sectors and inorganic pigments for coloring concrete and coatings.

Performance Chemicals is a classic area of the specialty chemicals business. Its portfolio comprises material protection products, processing chemicals for leather, textiles and paper, ion exchange resins, polymer additives such as flame retardants.


Platts 2004/12/25

Lanxess closes rubber, fiber plants at Marl, Goch, Germany

Lanxess announced Thursday it has closed down two plants in Germany as part of a major restructuring program to save Eur25-mil ($33-mil). "Reducing debt will be a main priority for Lanxess," according to a company spokesman. The plants that have been closed were
the polybutadiene rubber facility at Marl and elastic rotro garn fiber plant at Goch, the company said. The fiber plant producers Lanxess's trademark Dorlastan fiber.

 


February 28, 2005 Lanxess

Joint venture established with two partners in China
LANXESS accelerates growth in China
http://mediarelations.lanxess.com/lanxess/lnxnews.nsf/id/2005-0012-EN

Access to the world's most dynamic tire market Doubling of capacities for leather chemicals

LANXESS AG is stepping up its growth in the rapidly developing Chinese chemicals market. With a new joint venture, LANXESS intends to be the first western player to set up a production facility in China for
antioxidants for the rubber industry. The joint venture, in which LANXESS is a minority shareholder, will begin manufacturing the well-proven high-tech product in the second half of 2006. The plant is located in an industrial park in Tongling in the Chinese Province of Anhui.安徽省銅陵市

The new company is called Anhui Tong Feng Shengda Chemical Co. Ltd. The two major partners are Xinda, which is involved on the production side and is an established chemicals manufacturer, and TongFeng, a financial investment company listed on the Shanghai stock market.

A second project that will drive LANXESS's Chinese and Asian business involves the doubling of production capacity for leather chemicals. For this, two new production plants have been built in the Wuxi無錫Industrial Park in a record time of 15 months, and these are now to be formally dedicated. "We are taking advantage of the opportunity to expand our leading position on the Chinese leather chemicals market," said Wienkenhover.

The third project involves a hydrazine hydrate facility, for which the groundbreaking ceremony will be held on March 1 in Weifang山東省維坊.


2005/4/11 LANXESS

Restructuring in Fine Chemicals and Styrenic Resins business units

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- Talks with employee representatives have started
- Analysis of styrenics facilities at Dormagen and Tarragona

The Board of Management of LANXESS AG has decided to structurally realign its Fine Chemicals business unit and consolidate production capacities in its Styrenic Resins unit. The economic situation of both these business units is unsatisfactory. Talks with the employees' representatives started today. The intention is to improve the chemical company's international competitiveness.

The plans call for
the closure of unprofitable fine chemicals production units in Leverkusen and a European Styrenic Resins facility. Analyses of the facilities in Tarragona, Spain, and Dormagen, Germany, are currently ongoing in this connection. The annual savings are estimated at about EUR 100 million.


August 25, 2005 Laxess

Second phase of restructuring
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The newly announced restructuring measures relate mainly to the following business units and locations:

Technical Rubber Products (TRP):
The goal in this business unit is to streamline the manufacture and marketing operations of
the nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) business. Some EUR 150 million has been invested in this business over the past decade, yet losses of roughly EUR 200 million were incurred in the same period. The reorganization will focus on the production site at La Wantzenau, France.
Leather (LEA):
Plans call for an increase in the efficiency of global administration and production activities.
Inorganic Pigments (IPG):
The production site for yellow pigments at New Martinsville, West Virginia, United States will be closed.
RheinChemie (RCH):
The U.S. site at Trenton, New Jersey, which has been operating below capacity for years, will be closed.
Textile Processing Chemicals (TPC):
The loss-making site at Wellford, South Carolina, United States will be closed.

Said LANXESS Management Board Chairman Axel C. Heitmann: The extensive restructuring in the United States will boost our competitiveness in a market that is very important for LANXESS.U.S. sales account for about 20 percent of the Group total. LANXESS currently has 15 sites there, 10 of which house production facilities. About 2,100 people work for LANXESS in the U.S.

First phase of restructuring on schedule
Implementation of the savings program presented at the beginning of June for the company's two biggest loss-makers,
the Styrenic Resins and Fine Chemicals business units, is proceeding to schedule. In Styrenic Resins, new appointments have been made to key global management positions. The carve-out of the Fine Chemicals business unit into an independent, medium-sized company under the umbrella of the LANXESS Group is due to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2006. The company will be headquartered in Leverkusen and will employ about 1,350 people worldwide. Two production units have been closed as part of the reorganization already initiated. The fine chemicals production operation at Murcia, Spain, is to be relocated to Leverkusen.


October 14, 2005

Important element of second package of restructuring measures negotiated
LANXESS saves EUR 11 million in France
http://mediarelations.lanxess.com/lanxess/lnxnews.nsf/id/2005-0140-EN?Open&ccm=000000&l=EN

LANXESS has commenced the restructuring measures for the French site La Wantzenau that were announced in August. From 2006 LANXESS aims to save EUR 11 million annually there. I am delighted that the management has put a package of measures on the table that is acceptable to all sides,says LANXESS CEO Dr. Axel C. Heitmann. Therefore, we can sustainably lower our annual cost base and at the same time safeguard as many jobs as possible at the La Wantzenau site.The savings will be achieved through process optimization and a solidarity pact that has been negotiated with all unions concerned. Through this solidarity pact and the corresponding accompanying measures 83 jobs will now be reduced in a socially responsible manner instead of the 100 jobs initially envisaged.

The measures in France are part of the second phase of restructuring announced in August through which LANXESS will achieve savings of EUR 60 million.

In La Wantzenau the Technical Rubber Products Business Unit produces
nitrile-butadiene rubber, currently employing around 400 staff there. Before implementation the La Wantzenau cost saving package is subject to a number of formalities according to French law.

On a global level, the Technical Rubber Products Business Unit will achieve further savings through job reductions and process optimization.

In September, following negotiations with union representatives LANXESS announced a EUR 10 million savings package in the Styrenic Resins Business Unit in Spain.


British Rubber & Plastics 2005/6/27

Lanxess to cut jobs and restructure styrenics

Losses in Lanxess' styrenics business are to be curtailed with a major restructure and substantial job losses. The styrenics business is focused on two sites, Dormagen in Germany and Tarragona in Spain. Lanxess plans to concentrate its speciality grades at Tarragona, reducing capacity at Dormagen which will make high quality products for use in Bayer Material Science's Bayblend PC/ABS. Around 300 jobs will be lost at Dormagen.
Alongside the styrenics restructure Lanxess is also making economies in its fine chemicals business at the two sites, with a view to making it an independent business. Some 500 jobs will be lost in Germany, and a further 160 jobs are likely to be lost across the two businesses bringing total German job cuts to 960 by the end of 2007 with annual savings of Eur 100 m.


November 2, 2005 LANXESS

LANXESS subsidiary Rhein Chemie to consolidate U.S. production in Chardon, Ohio
http://mediarelations.lanxess.com/lanxess/lnxnews.nsf/id/2005-0147-EN?Open&ccm=000000&l=EN

Changes are part of the second global restructuring package announced in August

Chemicals group LANXESS is consolidating the U.S. manufacturing operations of its Mannheim, Germany-based subsidiary Rhein Chemie Rheinau GmbH at the latter's Chardon, Ohio, site as part of the group's second restructuring package. This package, announced in August 2005, is designed to save LANXESS some EUR 60 million annually, on a global basis. Rhein Chemie's other U.S. site at Trenton, New Jersey, is to be closed by the end of 2006 and production transferred to Chardon. The state of Ohio is supporting the relocation with tax breaks and other financial incentives.

Rhein Chemie manufactures a variety of products for the rubber, lubricants, plastics and polyurethane industries.


2006/4/7 Lanxess

LANXESS invests more than EUR 20 million in new capacities in Germany
  Expansion of performance polymers production / Start-up of second facility to manufacture cold sterilants for beverages
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Chemicals group LANXESS is investing more than EUR 20 million to expand production capacities in Germany.

At its Krefeld-Uerdingen site, the LANXESS Semi-Crystalline Products (SCP) business unit is spending around EUR 12 million expand the production of
polyamide-6 for its DurethanRengineering plastic. The enhanced unit is scheduled to come on stream in early 2007 and would give LANXESS one of the world's largest production facilities for polyamide-6. In the coming five years, the company is aiming for a 50-percent increase in sales of its high-tech plastics DurethanRand Pocan(R).

At its Dormagen site, LANXESS has invested more than EUR 10 million in an entirely new facility to manufacture Velcorin(R), a cold sterilant
滅菌剤 for beverages, for the Material Protection Products (MPP) business unit.


April 27, 2006 Lanxess

LANXESS opens compounding plant in China
  

The LANXESS chemical group's Semi-Crystalline Products (SCP) Business Unit has opened its first production site in Asia, located some 120 kilometers northwest of Shanghai. A state-of-the-art compounding plant for the engineering plastics Durethan(R) (polyamide) and Pocan(R) (polyester) started production on April 27, 2006 on the site of LANXESS Wuxi Chemicals Ltd. Annual production of some 20,000 tons of plastic is envisaged in the first phase. The total investment is in the region of EUR 20 million..

LANXESS Wuxi Chemicals Co. Ltd.

Activities
Leather business unit:
Production of leather chemicals
Distribution of leather chemicals for the entire Asia Pacific region
Research and development in the field of leather chemicals
Semi-Crystalline Products business unit:
From today: Production of high-performance plastics

Milestones
1998: Launch of leather chemicals production (Bayer) in Wuxi
2005: Commissioning of two new production plants for leather chemicals after only 15 months of construction, thereby doubling production of leather chemicals,and
opening of largest and most modern R&D center for leather chemicals in the region
2006: Commissioning of a new production plant for the high-tech plastics Durethan(R) and Pocan(R), further expansion planned

 


September 28, 2004 Bayer 

LANXESS、中国での活動強化 ヒドラジン水和物JV設立           

New joint venture strengthens business in China
LANXESS in China
managing chemistry
Weifang: New site sets LANXESS on course for growth
http://www.press.bayer.com/News/News.nsf/id/665C2EC35E473A22C1256F1C0036B14E

LANXESS - strong roots for a strong future

Aiming for success with clear objectives - in China and worldwide

The LANXESS Shanghai Pigments Company manufactures color pigments in Shanghai for use in the Chinese construction and paint industries. Bayferrox® and chrome oxide pigments for coloring a diverse range of products, such as concrete parts, roofing tiles, paints and coatings, plastics, paper and special pigments for toners and other applications, have been proving their mettle for many years now. The products offer high standards of quality as well as being simple and environmentally friendly to process.

In 1999, the
Rhein Chemie (Qingdao) Ltd. began producing additives for the rubber and mineral oil industries. Lubricant additives, for example, are used everywhere where there is a need to prevent friction, frictional heat and wear and to protect material against corrosion. Rhein Chemie has established itself in the lubricant industry as one of the leading additive manufacturers for industrial lubricants.

Today the leather business unit has the highest sales volume amongst all the business units of LANXESS in China. The company offers its customers cutting-edge products and technologies coupled with application-specific expertise. The
LANXESS Wuxi Leather Chemicals Company, founded in conjunction with the Wuxi Dyestuff Factory, has been producing leather chemicals since 1998 in Wuxi, north-west of Shanghai.

LANXESS - Top company in a growth market
Following its objective to remain efficient and growth-oriented, LANXESS is currently tapping into the particularly fast-growing Chinese market for hydrazine hydrate, an intermediate for the chemical industry. Hydrazine hydrate is used by the agro and pharmaceutical industry as well as for the production of plastic additives and for water conditioning.

A joint-venture company is therefore to be set up in collaboration with the
Weifang Yaxing Chemicals Company 維坊亜星化学 in Beijing on September 28, 2004. This is a further instance of LANXESS' concept of flexible, goal-focussed management of the chemicals business. The purpose of the joint venture is to manufacture hydrazine hydrate, whose market is currently enjoying annual growth rates running into double figures.  ヒドラジン水和物

With its involvement in Weifang LANXESS (* LANXESS Yaxing Chemical (Weifang) Company Ltd. )expects to become one of the leaders on the Chinese hydrazine hydrate market for three reasons: "We will have a production unit with very high capacity, we will offer the best quality and we also will be way out in front in terms of process engineering," said Wang Yongli, President of the LANXESS Chemical Company in China.

Weifang - a viable location with a strong partner

Weifang Yaxing Chemicals Company is an ideal joint-venture partner for manufacturing top-quality hydrazine hydrate. And Weifang is also the perfect location for such a facility. For this reason,
LANXESS will transfer its hydrazine hydrate plant from its site in Baytown, Texas, USA, to Weifang, which is intended to begin supplying the Chinese and international market from the end of 2005.


July 12, 2006 Lanxess

LANXESS inaugurates hydrazine hydrate plant in Weifang
Successful relocation of plant from Texas, USA, to China
http://mediarelations.lanxess.de/LANXESS/lnxnews.nsf/ID/2006-0142-EN

The LANXESS chemicals group today inaugurated a plant for producing hydrazine hydrate in Weifang in the Chinese province of Shandong 山東省維坊. The plant had previously been dismantled in the USA and transported to China. This marks a further key milestone for us in boosting our profitable growth in Asia,said Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of the LANXESS Management Board, at a press conference in Weifang. Relocating the plant enables us to become one of the leading hydrazine hydrate producers in China,adds Heitmann. China is the fastest growing hydrazine hydrate market in the world.

LANXESS - a leading hydrazine hydrate producer in China

With an initial capacity of 12,000 metric tons a year, the new plant is one of the largest of its kind in the world and complies with the latest US standards in environmental protection and occupational safety. Hydrazine hydrate is used in the agro, pharmaceuticals, automotive and leisure industries, for example. Most of the raw materials required are being supplied by the joint venture partner Weifang Yaxing Chemical Company Ltd. LANXESS has a 55 percent share in the joint venture LANXESS Yaxing Chemical (Weifang) Company Ltd., founded in September 2004. LANXESS is the first international investor in the new Weifang Industry Park.

 


2006/8/30 Lanxess

New name for LANXESS business unit
 Lustran Polymers - a new strong ABS brand
 Focus on colored ABS and ABS specialties

The LANXESS business unit Styrenic Resins has a new name: Lustran Polymers. With this name change, the chemical group's business unit is focusing on the top brand Lustran(R). The name change is a consequence of the repositioning of the business, which has already taken place, to focus on ABS specialties and pre-colored grades. The name Lustran Polymers visualizes the color-intensive new beginning of the LANXESS business unit Styrenic Resins. A new graphic with a color-balanced logo gives vivid expression to the claim: The colorful difference. With its wealth of technical expertise and cutting-edge technology, Lustran Polymers will make its debut as a distinctive and independent brand on October 1, 2006.

On gaining its independence, LANXESS started an exemplary restructuring of the previously unsatisfactory business. The key feature of this process is
regionalization with independent management teams who manage the business under their own regional and operational responsibility from product development and production through to marketing. This allows them to deal with customer requirements more quickly, on a more individual basis and with more focus, because they are familiar with the peculiarities of the regions and product portfolios concerned.


Lanxess portfolio         BayerLanxess    Bayer

 Engineering Plastics

Lustran Polymers   a major global supplier of ABS, SAN and PA-ABS plastics.
 ABS grades: Novodur®, Lustran® and AbsolacTM
 SAN grades: Lustran® and AbsolanTM
 ABS/PA grades: Triax®,
 ASA and AES
 Polymers: Centrex®
Semi-Crystalline Products   Durethan®, engineering plastics based on polyamide 6 and 66,
Pocan
®, engineering plastics based on polybutylene terephthalate,
range of glass fibers as reinforcements for plastics, caprolactam, adipic acid,
Perlon
®, Atlas® and Bayco®, Polyamide monofilaments
Dorlastan Fibers(スパンデックス)   LANXESS has sold its Dorlastan fibers business (the former Business Unit Fibers)
to the Japanese company Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation

 Performance Rubber

Butyl Rubber
Polybutadiene Rubber
Technical Rubber Products

 Chemical Intermediates

Basic Chemicals    Producer of high-quality industrial chemicals and aromatic compounds
Inorganic Pigments   for the coloration of construction materials and special applications for toner pigments and catalysts.
Saltigo   fine chemicals and intermediates for the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries.

 Performance Chemicals

Material Protection Products   Full range of biocides and specialty products for wood preservation, disinfection and industrial
and beverage preservation._
Functional Chemicals   Plastics additives, phosphorus and specialty chemicals, and organic and inorganic colorants.    
Leather   One of the the major suppliers of leather chemicals and systems solutions for all stages
in the manufacture of leather goods.
Textile Processing Chemicals   Development of chemicals for a wide range of textile processing applications
Rhein Chemie   additives for the rubber, lubricants, polyurethanes and plastics industries
Rubber Chemicals   High-quality rubber chemicals for the tire industry and the production of technical rubber products.
Ion Exchange Resins   Lewatit® ion exchange resins are used in water treatment and in the production of food and pharmaceuticals.
     
LANXESS has sold its former Business Unit Paper to the Finnish chemicals group Kemira Oyj

 


September 27, 2006  Lanxess

Official opening of the new European headquarters of Lustran Polymers in Tarragona
 Investments of more than EUR 20 million / LANXESS business unit is largest ABS manufacturer in Spain

The LANXESS chemical company today officially opened the new European headquarters of the recently renamed Lustran Polymers business unit in the Spanish city of Tarragona. Part of the production facilities for manufacturing ABS plastics had earlier been transported from Dormagen in Germany to Tarragona. Regional management for business in Europe and Latin America was also transferred from Germany's Lower Rhine region to Catalonia in July. This increased the Lustran Polymers workforce in Spain to 300.


September 20, 2006 Lanxess

LANXESS invests in chloroprene rubber

Chemicals group LANXESS has invested more than EUR 15 million in the production of chloroprene rubber (CR) in Dormagen. The project is aimed at optimizing processes and safety and expanding capacity, and is due for completion by the end of the year. This move by the company has been in response to the changing global market environment.

The investments will enable us to continue reliably serving our customers from the CR processing industry in the future,says Ingo Fischer, head of Global Product Management for CR at LANXESS's Technical Rubber Products business unit. In addition we are in close contact with the authorities to prepare for additional expansion.The aim is to increase further the capacity. If the project runs smoothly, the chances of obtaining a permit from the authorities quickly are rated high.

Chloroprene is used in a large number of applications in the field of technical rubber goods, e.g. hoses, cables, transport belts, and in the automotive segment in axle boots, windscreen wiper blades and belts. Apart from technical rubber goods CR is also used in adhesive raw materials and latex applications.

The Technical Rubber Products business unit belongs to the Performance Rubber segment, which achieved total sales in fiscal 2005 of EUR 1.678 billion.


2006/11/16 ランクセス

ランクセス、繊維加工用化学品事業を売却へ
〜 オランダの投資会社エゲリアと、繊維加工用化学品ビジネスユニットの経営陣が同事業を獲得 〜

 ドイツの化学会社ランクセスグループは、繊維加工用化学品事業の売却を発表しました。
北米地域以外の全ての拠点における繊維加工用化学品ビジネスユニットの業務は、オランダの投資会社エゲリア(Egeria)と、繊維加工用化学品ビジネスユニットの経営陣に売却されます。売却される事業の2005年の売上は、約1億3,000万ユーロで、約330人が同事業に従事しています。繊維加工用化学品の北米地域の業務については、現在、売却とは別の選択肢が検討されています。エゲリア社との売買契約書は、11月10日午前(現地時間)に締結されました。売却価格は5,400万ユーロで、売却は今年末までに完了する予定です。

 売却完了後、この事業は、
タナテックス ケミカルズ(Tanatex Chemicals BV)に社名変更されます。


2006/12/14 Lanxess

LANXESS acquires activities from The Dow Chemical Company in South Africa
  
and divests textile processing chemicals business in North America

First corporate acquisition implemented
Leather business unit strengthens core business
Complete control of value chain from chromium ore to leather tanning materials
World's most modern processing facility for the precursor of tanning materials

 
Chemicals group LANXESS is purchasing the chrome chemicals activities of The Dow Chemical Company in South Africa. LANXESS is to acquire the 50% interest in Chrome International South Africa (CISA), Newcastle, South Africa, which The Dow Chemical Company currently owns through its subsidiary Sentrachem. The remaining 50% of CISA is already owned by LANXESS. It has been agreed not to disclose the purchase price. Closing of the transaction, which is subject to the approval of the antitrust authorities and the Board of The Dow Chemical Company, is expected for the first quarter of 2007.

 
CISA社は、1990年代半ばに設立され、1999年より操業を開始した、年間70,000トンのニクロム酸ナトリウム(Sodium Dichromate)を製造する化学会社です。ニクロム酸ナトリウムは、主に皮革用なめし剤(Chorome Tanning Salt)の製造に使用されており、CISA社はニクロム酸ナトリウムの原料を、南アフリカのルステンブルグにあるクロム鉱山で採掘しています。CISA社の主な取引先は、ランクセスの無機顔料 ビジネスユニット(Chrome Oxide 製造) と同社の南アフリカのメルバンクにあるクロムなめし剤の製造プラントです。従業員数は約120人を擁し、2005年の売上高は、約4,000万ユーロです。

 皮革用化学品 ビジネスユニットは、世界の皮革業界におけるリーディング・サプライヤーで、南アフリカで従事する330人を含めて、現在約1,000人の従業員を擁しています。CISA社のランクセスグループへの統合後、皮革用化学品 ビジネスユニットの従業員の約30%は、南アフリカにて業務に従事することになります。


Textile processing chemicals business in North America to be divested    北米以外

 
At the same time, LANXESS is now divesting all the activities of its Textile Processing Chemicals (TPC) business unit in North America. Star Chem, a specialist in textile and speciality chemicals, will acquire the operations based in the United States and Canada and will employ major parts of the workforces. StarChem is a subsidiary of Star Holdings, Inc., Dalton, Georgia, USA, and will be headquartered in Wellford, South Carolina, USA.

StarChem Ltd is a supplier of automotive paint refinishing products.
http://www.starchem.co.uk/

 


January 16, 2007  Lanxess

LANXESS plans package of measures to speed development at Saltigo
 EUR 30 million investment to modernize the production base /
 EUR 10 million to build a high-tech multi-purpose plant /
 New, specially tailored worktime models

LANXESS, the Leverkusen-based chemicals group, plans to develop the business of its fine chemicals subsidiary Saltigo. EUR 30 million has been earmarked for plant modernization, and new worktime models are to be introduced. A state-of-the-art multi-purpose facility costing a further EUR 10 million is already under construction.


February 15, 2007 Lanxess

LANXESS steps up expansion in India
Significant investment possible in 2007 / Objective is to grow sales appreciably

Only recently, LANXESS launched two projects to accelerate profitable growth in India. In January, a new plant for the production of the
polymer-bound rubber chemical Rhenogran went on stream in Madurai. This was the response from the LANXESS Rhein Chemie Business Unit to the rapidly growing demand from Indian tire manufacturers and other rubber processors for polymer-bound chemicals to improve product quality, processing, economic efficiency, health and environmental protection. ゴム薬品のマスターバッチであるレノグラン

At the same time, LANXESS is in the process of building a new facility in Moxi for coloring ABS plastics. With double-digit growth rates, India is the strongest-growing market for ABS plastics in Asia, and Lustran Polymers boasts the highest sales of any LANXESS business unit in India. In 2006 LANXESS ABS Ltd., which is listed on the Mumbai stock exchange and belongs to the Business Unit Lustran Polymers, increased its operating profit by around 40 percent compared with the previous year.

The new facility is a further step towards the expansion of
ABS capacity from 60,000 to 80,000 t/y. Capacity can be further raised to 100,000 t if needed. The project will enable LANXESS to consolidate its leading position with this business in India and to continue participating in the strong market growth.


2007/2/7 ラインケミージャパン

ラインケミー、インドで「レノグラン」の製造を開始
〜インドのゴム加工会社で定評のあるレノグランの提供を強化〜

 ドイツの化学会社、ラインケミーは、インドのマドゥライにある親会社ランクセスの製造拠点に併設された新プラントでゴム薬品のマスターバッチである「
RhenogranR)」の製造を2007122日付けで開始したことを発表しました。これは、市場におけるゴム薬品のマスターバッチへの需要の高まりに対応するためです。

 ラインケミーは、新たにインドでもレノグランの製造を開始することで、インドのゴム業界の需要に対応した製品ポートフォリオを揃えるだけでなく、ゴム薬品のマスターバッチ業界における国際的なサプライヤーとしての地位を確固たるものにしつつあります。ラインケミーは、
20063月に中国の青島にある製造拠点のレノグランの製造能力を2倍に引き上げました。ランクセス インド社は、以前からラインケミーの一部製品を製造しています。日本でもまた、レノグランはラインケミージャパンの豊橋工場で製造されています。ラインケミーは、すべての主要な市場でレノグランを提供することをめざしており、世界中の顧客の需要に対しても個別に対応したソリューションを展開します。


LANXESS ABS Limited (← Bayer ABS ABS Plastics Limited
http://www.lanxessabsindia.com/companypro.html

The erstwhile ABS Plastics Limited now LANXESS ABS Limited played a pioneering role in developing the market for the versatile engineering thermoplastic material - Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) in India, when it started its operation in 1978 by manufacturing and marketing ABS polymer under the brand name of ABSOLAC. Since then the company has been continuously growing through a planned process of aggressive market development and consolidation, technology updation and capacity build up. The company also set up India's first modern and dedicated Styrene Acrylonytrile (SAN) plant in 1993, with technical know-how from JSR, Japan for manufacture of various grades of ABSOLAN- SAN.

In early 1997, Bayer Industries Private Limited, a 100% holding company of the German major, Bayer AG acquired a majority share of 51% in ABS Industries Limited. The company then became a part of the Bayer group and was rechristened as Bayer ABS Limited.

LANXESS India Private Ltd. (which is 100% subsidiary of LANXESS AG Germany) acquired 89,63,564 equity shares of Rs.10/- each in Bayer ABS Ltd (BABS) constituting 50.97% of paid-up capital of the paid up share capital of Bayer ABS Limited from Bayer Industries Private Ltd and became a holding Company of the Company.

To meet the increasing demand, LANXESS ABS Limited intends to enhance the capacity of ABS
to 80,000 tpa from the current 60,000 tpa within a short period and the Company is further increasing this capacity to 100,000 tpa in the course of next two years, which is quite possible at a nominally higher cost through an additional investment in machinery and de-bottlenecking in the existing plants.


Lanxess in India

Thane
At Thane, 245 LANXESS employees manufacture 6,000 tons of
caoutchouc 天然ゴム chemicals per year. The technical development center for the Asian pacific region for caoutchouc chemicals is also located here.

Madurai
The Madurai site manufactures
leather chemicals, but LANXESS also uses the production plant to produce caoutchouc additives for the product line Rhenodiv. This project is to satisfy the rapidly growing demand from Indian tire manufacturers. In January 2007 a new plant in Madurai started to produce the rubber chemical Rhenogran.

Nandesari, Moxi and Katol
The production sites for
Lustran Polymers ABSSAN products are located near Vadodara at Nandesari, Moxi and Katol, where about 413 employees manufacture 60,000 tons of ABS and 60,000 tons of SAN per year. The largest turnover in India is achieved by the Lustran Polymers business unit which has a share of more than 50% of total sales there. LANXESS also operates a research and development center at Moxi as part of its global ABS development network.


November 6, 2006

LANXESS realigns its EPDM rubber business

To strengthen its competitiveness, chemicals group LANXESS is to realign its ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM) business. Marketing, research, production and controlling will in future be assigned to LANXESS Buna GmbH in Marl, Germany. Similarly, LANXESS will pool its EPDM operations in the USA in a separate legal entity to be known as LANXESS Buna LLC. Robert Gnann, Managing Director of LANXESS Buna GmbH, will assume global responsibility for the EPDM business.
The EPDM line is part of the portfolio of the Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit. To take advantage of synergies,
sales and technical service for EPDM will continue to be managed together with the other products of the TRP business unit.
"EPDM is an important element of our core business. This new focus will help us meet customer demand more quickly, respond more speedily and expand our position as a major global supplier of technical rubber," explains Dr. G
ünther Weymans, the head of LANXESS's Technical Rubber business unit. "These measures also increase cost transparency, thus making cost monitoring more efficient."
Buna
® EP has been the only rubber material to qualify for the discipline of sealing the roof of the soccer stadium in Tianjin for the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. It impresses with its outstanding resistance to weathering, ozone and aging and its good dimensional stability even in the face of strong fluctuations in temperature. Other fields of use are hoses, extruded profiles, including dense automotive class A profiles, and injection molded goods.

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In Germany the core EPDM activities of marketing management, controlling, manufacturing, and research and development will be organized as part of LANXESS Buna GmbH in Marl, Germany. The global EPDM business will be headquartered in Germany. In the United States, the marketing management, manufacturing and controlling activities of EPDM will be carved out into a new company, LANXESS Buna LLC, early next year. This includes the production unit in Orange, Texas.


2001年2月6日 バイエル株式会社

バイエル、米国とドイツにおける合成ゴム生産能力増強へ

バイエルは、伸び続ける合成ゴム需要に対応するため、1億ユーロ以上の投資をして、マール(ドイツ)とオレンジ(米国テキサス州)にあるエチレン - プロピレン - ジエンゴム (EP(D)M) 生産施設拡大のプロジェクトを実施する。

マールでは、第三生産ラインを増設することによって、同施設の生産能力は、6万トン増え、11万 5,000トンになる。また、オレンジにある生産工場に最新設備を導入することによって、米国での生産能力が 7万トンに拡大される。このゴムの総生産能力は、2003年以降年産18万5,000トンになる見込みである。

これら 2つの生産施設の拡大により、市場への EP(D)M の継続供給が確保され、高品質製品に対する顧客の要求も満たされることになる。バイエルは世界有数の EP(D)M 生産者としての地位を確立することを長期的目標としている。

バイエルのEP(D)M は、ブナEPという商標のもと販売されており、主として、自動車業界で窓やドアのシールに、また建設・電線用でも使用されている。

1933年 スチレン・ブタジエンゴム ブナS の工業化に成功。

1938年にドイツ政府の戦争準備のための4ヵ年計画に基づいて、スチレン・ブタジエンゴム Bunaの製造のため、I.G. Farben 74%Hibernia (当時は国営であったエネルギー会社Vebaの子会社の鉱山会社)26%出資でHulsが設立された。 http://www.knak.jp/blog/2006-8-2.htm#sabic


Lanxess March 5, 2007

LANXESS invests in new site in China

As part of its Asia strategy, the LANXESS chemicals group is building a new plant for the manufacture of
lubricant additives in Qingdao, China. The production facility, which belongs to LANXESS's subsidiary Rhein Chemie, will go on stream at the latest in the fourth quarter of 2008 and will initially employ 50 people. It is estimated that the amount in euros to be invested will be a single-digit million value. The new facility is a further step in our drive to increase profitable growth in Asia,said LANXESS Management Board Chairman Dr. Axel C. Heitmann. We are rigorously expanding our presence here.


In Qingdao Rhein Chemie has been producing rubber chemicals since 1999 within a joint venture. Capacity of polymer-bound chemicals (Rhenogran) was doubled last year with the commissioning of a second production unit. LANXESS currently employs more than 800 staff in China, of which 160 work for Rhein Chemie in Qingdao.


March 21, 2007 LANXESS

LANXESS has not made an offer for Degussa

Chemicals Group LANXESS denies the claim of a newspaper article that the company has issued a take-over bid for Degussa.

Today's edition (Wednesday, March 21, 2007) of the Rheinische Postnewspaper claims that LANXESS has surprisingly issued a new bid to acquire the RAG subsidiary Degussa. LANXESS denied this to various news agencies today.

LANXESS has not issued a bid to take over Degussa, either now or in the past, according to Christoph Sieder, head of Corporate Communications at LANXESS AG. "Degussa is wholly owned by the RAG Group, there is therefore no acquisition project on our part," he added.

Last September LANXESS announced that it would be moving into the acquisition phase. When examining strategic options in the sector as a whole, Degussa has also played a role. LANXESS had, however, always maintained that the chemical company Degussa was not for sale.

 


April 3, 2007 Lanxess

LANXESS increases capacities for EPDM rubber
  Optimization measures take effect

To meet rising consumer demand for ethylene-propylene(-diene) rubber (EPDM), the LANXESS chemicals group wants to increase its annual production capacities to more than 140,000 metric tons. To this end, the company is investing in debottlenecking and modernization measures such as enhanced process control.

Last year LANXESS realigned its EPDM business. Marketing, research, production and controlling were assigned to LANXESS Buna GmbH in Marl, Germany. In the USA, LANXESS is to pool its EPDM operations in LANXESS Buna LLC, which became a separate legal entity on March 1, 2007.


April 23, 2007 Lanxess

LANXESS opens new plant in China
Facility ensures economic supply of raw materials for pigment production - low capital expenditure - fast commissioning
 

Chemicals group LANXESS today opened a new plant in Shanghai as part of its Asia strategy launched in 2006. This is the Group's second production facility for inorganic pigments in China.

The plant with an annual capacity of approximately 20,000 tons will be operated by the Inorganic Pigments business unit to supply raw materials for the production of inorganic pigments in Shanghai, which started in 1996. LANXESS had previously sourced these raw pigments from suppliers.

The new facility is an important step in our drive to increase our profitability in Asia,said LANXESS Management Board member Dr. Ulrich Koemm at the inauguration. With this backward integration, we can significantly improve our profitability in this segment.


2007/5/6 forbes.com

Lanxess CEO Heitmann says co is prepared to pay 4-6 bln eur for RAG's Degussa

Lanxess AG chief executive Axel Heitmann told Handelsblatt his company is prepared to pay 4-6 bln eur for RAG AG's Degussa chemical business, should the conglomerate's plans to launch an initial public offering fail.

Heitmann told the newspaper in an interview scheduled to appear in tomorrow's edition that if RAG is 'looking for alternatives to a listing', Lanxess will make an offer for the business.

RAG has yet to set a date for its IPO, which could take place as early as next year.


May 8, 2007 Lanxess

LANXESS and Hankook Tire sign long-term supply contract

LANXESS's Polybutadiene Rubber business unit and the South Korean tire manufacturer Hankook Tire have put their cooperation on a firm footing with the conclusion of
a long-term supply contract. In the next five years LANXESS will supply solution SBR and polybutadiene rubber. It is planned to more than double the volume supplied within the next five years. The contract was signed in Dormagen on May 7, 2007 by Jeong Ho Park, General Manager of Global Raw Material Purchasing of Hankook Tire, and Dr. Joachim Grub, head of the Polybutadiene Rubber business unit.

Hankook Tire operates tire manufacturing facilities in South Korea and China and from the middle of 2007 in Hungary. The Polybutadiene Rubber business unit, which is the world's biggest supplier of polybutadiene rubber, belongs to the Performance Rubber segment. This segment recorded sales of EUR 1.776 billion in fiscal 2006.


2007/6/27 Lanxess

LANXESS projects significant new investment in rubber business

With costs of a magnitude of roughly EUR 400 million, the new production facility would be the largest investment in the company's history

Chemical group LANXESS seeks to expand its global position in the butyl rubber market and is pursuing plans to build a new facility in Asia.

Negotiations at three possible sites, Singapore, Kuantan in Malaysia and Map Ta Phut in Thailand, will begin immediately.


July 6, 2007 LANXESS

LANXESS presses ahead with worldwide butyl rubber expansion

North America: Plant expansion by more than 40 percent implemented, further expansion by 10 percent started - Europe:
Capacity increase by 10 percent completed - Asia: New world-scale plant projected

The chemicals group LANXESS is pressing ahead with the worldwide expansion of its butyl rubber business. At its Canadian Sarnia site the company has completed the first phase of a plant expansion that will increase its butyl rubber capacity there by 42 percent. LANXESS has already started a second phase of expansion at the Sarnia plant, increasing annual capacity by another 10 percent in 2009.

In order to satisfy the growing global demand for butyl rubber the company is also accelerating its expansion in Europe and Asia. At the Zwijndrecht, Belgium facility LANXESS already increased capacity by 10 percent in 2006. In addition, LANXESS announced plans last week to build a new butyl rubber facility in Asia.

 


2007/8/31 Lanxess

LANXESS builds new ion exchange facility in India
  Around 200 new jobs / Investment volume approx. EUR 30 million

The LANXESS chemicals group is to build its new ion exchange resin plant in the Indian state of Gujarat. Construction work on the EUR 30 million site at the new Jhagadia Chemical Park near Baroda is set to begin in the second quarter of 2008. Production is scheduled to start at the beginning of 2010, with 200 new employees being taken on.



In March of this year, LANXESS launched
an international competition that sites in China, India and Singapore entered. The Jhagadia Chemical Park in India was selected because it already has an excellent industrial infrastructure in place.


Platts 2007/9/14

Germany's Lanxess invests Eur10 million in Dormagen EVM facility

German specialty chemicals group Lanxess announced Friday that it is to invest Eur10 million ($13.875 million) to expand its ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer (EVM) plant at Dormagen. A current permit allows for a maximum volume of 15,000 mt/year at the site, an amount that could be realistic by 2009, the company said.


Thomson Financial  2007/9/19

Lanxess walked away from talks to buy Petroflex of Brasil - report

Lanxess AG was in advanced talks to buy Brasilian rival Petroflex but walked away from negotiations, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing unidentified sources at Petroflux and other unnamed people familiar with the matter.

The deal would have been worth between 250 and 300 mln eur, according to the newspaper.

A Lanxess spokesman declined to comment on what he called 'market rumors,' Financial Times Deutschland said.

Braskem to boost stake in synthetic rubber-maker Petroflex

 


LANXESS September 19, 2007

LANXESS to invest about EUR 1 billion by 2009
New segment structure for the 13 business units / Earnings targets will now be reached in 2008

LANXESS AG, Leverkusen, will now position itself as a specialty chemicals group following the divestment of its Lustran Polymers business unit. Our place is as a specialty chemicals group at the core of the chemical industry,declared Management Board Chairman Axel C. Heitmann at this year's Investor and Media Day in London. As part of a systematic market orientation, LANXESS will organize its 13 business units into three segments starting in October 2007 following the divestment of the commodity plastics activities. The new segments are named Performance Polymers, Advanced Intermediates and Performance Chemicals.

Ineosは2007年6月29日、Lanxess との間でABS事業の合弁会社設立で合意したと発表した。
合弁会社の社名は INEOS ABS
で、Lanxess のABS事業のLustran Polymers を引き継ぐ。
Ineos が合弁会社に51%を出資
2007/7/4 
Ineos、Lanxess のABS事業を買収へ 

Only acquisitions that create value
A central criterion for an acquisition, said Heitmann, is that it must be accretive to earnings per share within three years at the latest. LANXESS is well prepared for acquisitions, he went on, but
we will never pursue an acquisition simply for the sake of size. We will act only when the time is right.

New three-segment structure.

従来の組織 新組織
Performance Rubber
Butyl Rubber, Polybutadiene Rubber, Technical Rubber Products
Performance Polymers
Engineering Plastics - Semi-crystalline
Engineering Plastics - Lustran Polymers INEOS ABS)
Chemical Intermediates - Basic Chemicals Advanced Intermediates.
Chemical Intermediates - Fine Chemicals
Chemical Intermediates - Inorganic Pigment Performance Chemicals
Performance Chemicals
Material ProtectionFunctional ChemicalsLeatherRhein Chemie
 
Rubber ChemicalsIon Exchange Resins

   Lanxess walked away from talks to buy Petroflex of Brasil


2007/12/13 Lanxess               Lanxess walked away from talks to buy Petroflex of Brasil

LANXESS to acquire Petroflex chemicals group of Brazil

Leverkusen-based specialty chemicals group LANXESS is to acquire an interest of approximately 70 percent in Petroflex S.A, Brazil, at a provisional price equivalent to EUR 198 million. Petroflex, a listed company based in Rio de Janeiro, is among the world's large-scale producers of synthetic rubber. The stake to be purchased by LANXESS includes the holdings of the current major shareholders Braskem and Unipar. The transaction requires the approval of the relevant antitrust authorities. 

LANXESS will submit a public takeover offer for the remaining ordinary shares at the proper time under Brazilian law.

In 2006 Petroflex had some 1,300 employees and sales equivalent to about EUR 500 million. The group's 2007 output at its t
hree sites in Brazil - Cabo  in Pernambuco State, Duque de Caxias in Rio de Janeiro State and Triunfo in the State of Rio Grande do Sul - will exceed 400,000 tons. Its elastomer products range from solution rubber to emulsion rubber and comprise 70 brands. The products are used especially in the manufacture of tires as well as for tubing and plastics. One third of its output is exported to more than 70 countries.

December 13, 2007  PRNewswire-FirstCall

BRASKEM S.A. , the leading company in the thermoplastic resins industry in Latin America and third- largest Brazilian industrial company owned by the private sector, announces that, jointly with Unipar -- Uniao de Industrias Petroquimicas S.A. ("Unipar") and other parties, entered into a Share Purchase Agreement on this date with the German company Lanxess Deutschland GmbH ("Lanxess") for the sale of Petroflex Industria e Comercio S.A ("Petroflex") shares. The amount of shares to be sold add up to 17,102,002 common shares and 7,416,602 preferred shares representative of 72.38% of total common shares and 69.68% of capital stock of Petroflex, at a total price of R$ 526,680,000, which corresponds up to R$ 22.86 per common share and R$ 18.29 per preferred class "A" share. Braskem is selling its total share interest, which represents 33.57% of Petroflex common shares and 33.46% of its preferred shares.


2007/12/13 BRASKEM

Braskem Announces Sale of Share Interest in Petroflex

BRASKEM S.A., the leading company in the thermoplastic resins industry in Latin America and third- largest Brazilian industrial company owned by the private sector, announces that, jointly with Unipar -- Uniao de Industrias Petroquimicas S.A. ("Unipar") and other parties, entered into a Share Purchase Agreement on this date with the German company Lanxess Deutschland GmbH ("Lanxess") for the sale of Petroflex Industria e Comercio S.A ("Petroflex") shares. The amount of shares to be sold add up to 17,102,002 common shares and 7,416,602 preferred shares representative of 72.38% of total common shares and 69.68% of capital stock of Petroflex, at a total price of R$ 526,680,000, which corresponds up to R$ 22.86 per common share and R$ 18.29 per preferred class "A" share. Braskem is selling its total share interest, which represents 33.57% of Petroflex common shares and 33.46% of its preferred shares.


October 17, 2008 Lamxess

LANXESS: Petroflex to become a wholly owned subsidiary
 Successful tender offer for remaining shares in Brazil
 Petroflex to be delisted
 Way cleared for squeeze-out of minority stockholders

The tender offer by specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG for the remaining shares of Petroflex S.A. in Brazil has been met with great interest. Under the public tender offer to the minority stockholders LANXESS has acquired a further 27 percent of Petroflex shares, giving it a total interest of around 97 percent in the company. The offer period ended on October 16, 2008. This high acceptance rate enables LANXESS to acquire all the remaining shares by way of a squeeze-out and thus to become the sole owner of Petroflex. The success of the offer also means that Petroflex can be delisted from the stock exchange. The purchase price for the 27 percent of the share capital now acquired is equivalent to about EUR 60 million. In the tender offer, LANXESS had offered the minimum price which is required by law to be paid to holders of common shares. As previously announced the total price for 100 percent of the shares including net debt therefore amounts to about EUR 370 million.

Said LANXESS CEO Axel C. Heitmann:
I'm pleased with the positive response to our offer. Now that we are about to successfully complete the acquisition procedure, we can focus our energies on further integrating Petroflex into the Group.The German based group purchased a majority shareholding in Petroflex earlier this year. This acquisition has allowed LANXESS, one of the leading global suppliers of synthetic rubbers, to significantly improve its presence in the South American region.


February 1, 2008 LANXESS

LANXESS Corp. announces restructuring of LANXESS Inc. Sarnia Site to maintain competitive leadership in global rubber industry

Sarnia butyl operation restructures
At the site of the company's recently completed $100 million
butyl plant expansion, LANXESS Inc. is implementing a 24 month restructuring aimed at improving the global competitiveness of its butyl products. The move is aimed at removing increased operating expenses due to higher energy and raw material costs in addition to the impact of the Canadian dollar on labor.

The expansion of the Sarnia butyl plant made it the largest, most modern facility of its kind in the world. By December of 2008, total production capacity will be 150 thousand metric tonnes. Together with today's announced site restructuring, the plant modernization will improve the plant's productivity. Over the next 24 months the site will reduce its manpower operating requirements by approximately 270 positions.

Global NBR production consolidated
LANXESS AG will consolidate global NBR production in La Wantzenau, France over the next few months. The process will involve
closing a 64 year old nitrile butadiene rubber production facility located in Sarnia, Canada by the end of May, 2008.

 


February 26, 2008 LANXESS

LANXESS to make record investment in Singapore
 Expenditures of up to EUR 400 million for a new chemical site /
 Production of halobutyl for tire industry from 2011 /
 Around 200 new highly-skilled jobs

Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG is set to make the biggest single investment in its history in Singapore. A new chemical production site for synthetic rubber is to be built at the chemical park on Jurong Island. LANXESS has earmarked a record amount of EUR 400 million for this investment. From 2011, the site in Singapore will produce up to 100,000 tons of butyl rubber annually, making the LANXESS plant the largest facility of its type in Asia. Construction is due to begin in the first quarter of 2009 and will be completed by the end of 2010. Some 200 new jobs will initially be created.

LANXESS began evaluating potential locations in
Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore in June 2007.

Already today, LANXESS is a global market leader in the synthetic rubber business. In the past two years, LANXESS significantly expanded its production rubber facilities in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, and Sarnia, Canada. The Singapore site will complete the global production network. In combination with the completion of the latest
expansion phase in Sarnia, the company will have an annual capacity totaling 280,000 metric tons of butyl rubber in 2010.

シェルケミカルズは、2010年からジュロン島に隣接するブコム島にあるシェル・イースタン・ペトロケミカルズ・コンプレックス(SEPC)のブタジエン抽出設備から、パイプラインを通してブタジエン抽出後のラフィネートをランクセスに供給することにしている。


June 26, 2008 Lanxess

LANXESS makes first acquisition in China
Take-over of one of China's largest iron oxide pigment facilities

With its first acquisition in China, specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG is expanding the Asian business of its Inorganic Pigments business unit. In Jinshan near Shanghai LANXESS is to acquire two production units from its previous cooperation partner Jinzhuo Chemicals Company Ltd, one of which it had already leased since 2007. With this acquisition LANXESS will expand its global production capacity for inorganic pigments by five percent. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.



Jinshan: The most modern iron oxide pigment facility in China
The site started producing iron oxide yellow pigments last year and has a total capacity of
30,000 metric tons per year. Half of this capacity was already utilized by LANXESS. The facility is one of China's largest and uses state-of-the-art and environmentally compatible production methods. 


July 17, 2008 Lanxess

Next step within LANXESS goes Asiainitiative
LANXESS opens Rubber Research Center in Qingdao
  Win-win situation for LANXESS and Chinese rubber industry

German specialty chemicals company LANXESS AG today opened a new Rubber Research Center (RRCQ) in Qingdao, Shandong Province. Established in close cooperation with Qingdao's University of Science and Technology (QUST), the world-class research center is located within the university's vicinity. It is jointly operated by the LANXESS business units Technical Rubber Products, Butyl Rubber and Performance Butadiene Rubbers, and marks an investment of some USD 16 million.


2008/10/7 Plastics Information Europe

Lanxess: Reported bid for DSM's elastomers division

The Financial Times Deutschlandnewspaper has reported that chemical company Lanxess has made a bid for the EPDM business of DSM. Neither company has commented on the possible transaction.

DSM has assigned its elastomers business to its base chemicals unit whose operations are earmarked for divestment. The elastomers segment generates sales of around EUR 500m annually with sealing systems for automotive, construction and electrical applications.

 


December 19, 2008 Lanxess

LANXESS responds to global economic crisis and shifts investments

Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG responds to the global economic crisis by taking further measures.

Affected by the decision is the construction of the
Butyl Rubber plant in Singapore. According to the revised plans, the new Butyl Rubber facility is expected to commence operations in 2012, with groundbreaking - previously scheduled for January 2009 - postponed until the fall. Additionally, plans for capacity expansions in Leverkusen and Antwerp and the planned move of the group headquarters from Leverkusen to Cologne will also be postponed.


2009-6-12 CCR

LANXESS Acquires Polyol Specialist in China

LANXESS AG is strengthening its market presence in the important Asia region by acquiring the business and production assets of Jiangsu Polyols Chemical Co., Ltd. in Liyang, Jiangsu province, eastern China.
The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2009, pending for regulating authority's approval.
Jiangsu Polyols mainly produces
trimethylolpropane. LANXESS' business unit Basic Chemicals is already a major supplier of TMP in China and will integrate Jiangsu into its global operations.

主な用途  アルキッド樹脂塗料、ポリウレタン樹脂塗料、印刷インキ

2009-06-29

LANXESS: Production in Singapore to start in 2014

Postponement made necessary by drop in demand / New technology for the large-scale project / Bulk order from tire manufacturer Hankook

Due to the continuing global economic crisis, specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG is postponing the construction of its new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. Production is now scheduled to start in 2014. LANXESS will use the time to finish developing an innovative technology for butyl rubber production that will then be used at the new facility. The 100,000 tpa plant originally planned for Singapore, which would have cost up to EUR 400 million to build, had been due on stream in 2012. 

Independent of the project postponement, LANXESS will continue to expand its presence in Singapore. The company is currently negotiating with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) with a view to managing the global business of the Butyl Rubber business unit from there in the future. Said Heitmann: This dynamic city is the hub of our activities in Southeast Asia and continues to play a key role in our highly successful strategy for the Asian region.The Group currently runs the Southeast Asian business of all its 13 business units from Singapore.

LANXESS is a technology leader in the global market for synthetic rubber and supplies all the leading tire manufacturers and other customers worldwide. The focus is on the premium segment, including numerous new grades of rubber for energy-saving tires with improved running properties such as braking characteristics.
A five-year agreement recently signed with South Korean tire manufacturer Hankook underlines the growing importance of the Asian market. This new supply agreement for butyl rubber covers the period from 2010 through 2014. LANXESS already concluded a long-term supply agreement with Hankook, the world's seventh-largest tire manufacturer, for styrene-butadiene rubber and polybutadiene rubber in 2007. Hankook has a workforce of 14,000 and had sales equivalent to about EUR 2.5 billion in 2008.

 


2009/9/2

LANXESS completes acquisitions in India and China

German specialty chemicals group LANXESS has successfully completed the acquisitions of the chemical businesses and production assets belonging to Indian company Gwalior Chemical Industries Ltd as well as China's Jiangsu Polyols Chemical Co. Ltd. The transactions have received the necessary approvals from the anti-trust authorities and Gwalior shareholders. Both transactions have taken economic and legal effect on September 1, 2009.

LANXESS is paying EUR 82.4 million
 - including debt - for the assets of Gwalior, while the acquisition price for Jiangsu Polyols will remain undisclosed. Both transactions complement the portfolio of LANXESS' business unit Basic Chemicals, which is one of the leading manufacturers of raw materials for agrochemicals, polymers, surface coatings, and pigments.

These acquisitions in India and China are further milestones in our company's long-term growth strategy in the BRIC countries, said Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of LANXESS' Board of Management. We will start to integrate these two businesses into our group and warmly welcome the new employees into the LANXESS family.

Gwalior is one of the largest Indian producers of benzyl products and one of the leading global producers of sulphur chlorides for the agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals as well as for the flavor and fragrance industries. In its business year 2008/2009 (ended March 31) the Indian company achieved sales of approximately EUR 57.8 million and currently employs about 400 permanent staff mainly based at its production site in Nagda, Madhya Pradesh state.

Jiangsu Polyols achieved sales of about EUR 10 million in 2008 and currently employs some 170 staff at its facility in Liyang, west of Shanghai. It mainly produces trimethylol propane (TMP) that is used in lubricants, paints, and coatings. LANXESS's business unit Basic Chemicals is already a major supplier of TMP in China.

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 6.58 billion in 2008 and currently 14,335 employees in 23 countries. The company is represented at 46 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.


2009/12/15  

LANXESS streamlines global production network
 Divestment of Chinese joint venture stake and U.S. site

LANXESS AG has taken further steps to streamline its global production network and thus reduce operating costs in the face of the economic crisis and competitive business environment.

The specialty chemicals group has sold its 55 percent stake in the hydrazine hydrate joint venture
LANXESS Yaxing (Weifang) Chemicals Company Ltd. to its Chinese partner Weifang Yaxing Group 亞星集団. The joint venture was founded in September 2004 and is based in the Weifang Industry Park in Shandong province, China. Both parties have agreed not to disclose financial details.

2005 3 山東省イ坊市 ヒドラジン水和物工場起工(Baytown, USAから設備移設)〈2006/7稼動〉

July 12, 2006 Lanxess

LANXESS inaugurates hydrazine hydrate plant in Weifang
Successful relocation of plant from Texas, USA, to China

The LANXESS chemicals group today inaugurated a plant for producing hydrazine hydrate in Weifang in the Chinese province of Shandong 山東省維坊. The plant had previously been dismantled in the USA and transported to China. This marks a further key milestone for us in boosting our profitable growth in Asia,said Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of the LANXESS Management Board, at a press conference in Weifang. Relocating the plant enables us to become one of the leading hydrazine hydrate producers in China,adds Heitmann. China is the fastest growing hydrazine hydrate market in the world.

LANXESS will continue to produce hydrazine hydrate at its Leverkusen plant in Germany and is committed to providing a regular and long-term supply to its customers worldwide. Weifang Yaxing Group will continue to operate the assets after LANXESS' exit.

In addition, LANXESS Corporation has sold the infrastructure and supporting services at its site in Bushy Park, South Carolina, U.S., to the investment company Cooper River Partners, LLC, for 10 million USD.

The company's Rubber Chemicals business unit will continue to manufacture at the site and has reached a long-term lease and service agreement with Cooper River.

LANXESS recently announced its Functional Chemicals business unit will transfer its colorants
着色剤production from Lerma, Mexico, to its existing facility in Leverkusen, Germany, in the coming months. LANXESS also sold its remaining shareholding in the acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) joint venture to its partner INEOS in September, thus completely exiting the ABS business in 2009 as planned.

Ineosは2007年6月29日、Lanxess との間でABS事業の合弁会社設立で合意したと発表した。

合弁会社の社名は INEOS ABS で、Lanxess のABS事業のLustran Polymers を引き継ぐ。
Ineos が合弁会社に51%を出資し、その分の対価として35百万ユーロをLanxessに支払う。

2009    INEOS acquires 100% of Ineos ABS

These measures run parallel to the company's Challenge09-12program that has been implemented since the start of the year to help mitigate the effects of the crisis. In this way, LANXESS will cut costs worldwide by about EUR 360 million by 2012.

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 6.58 billion in 2008 and currently around 14,600 employees in 23 countries. The company is represented at 46 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.

2009/9/11
 LANXESS、インドと中国の企業買収手続き完了、"LANXESS goes Asia" 推進


Mar 3, 2010 Reuters

Lanxess in talks to buy rubber group Eliokem

Lanxess is in talks to buy synthetic rubber company
Eliokem, in a move that would bolster its position as the world's largest producer of synthetic rubber.

Lanxess managers met with bankers to discuss the deal last week, the Financial Times Deutschland said, citing unnamed sources.

Lanxess declined to comment.

Eliokem which is specialised in natural and synthetic latex and rubber compounds, was founded in 2001 when it was spun out of the specialty chemicals business of the
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

Eliokem has been put up for sale by its owners, which include Axa Private Equity, the paper said.


2010/3/3

LANXESS: new Jhagadia site up and running

* Successful start up of
rubber chemicals plant
* Construction of
ion exchange resins plant on schedule
* Indian domestic market driving demand for high-quality chemical products

The specialty chemicals company LANXESS has completed the first phase of construction of its new site in Jhagadia, Gujarat state, India. The production of the rubber chemicals plant was started up, as planned, after being relocated from Thane, Maharashtra state.

The plant features the latest technology and was constructed over a period of less than two years. It will supply the global rubber and mineral oil additive market as well as the rapidly growing Indian tire and rubber industry with
high-quality antioxidants belonging to LANXESS' Vulkanox(R) brand.

The expansion of the tire market in India is being driven by the mega-trend towards greater mobility among the growing middle-class in the country. At the same time, major tire manufacturers are expanding production capacities in the local market.

The Jhagadia site will become LANXESS' largest production site in India and highlights our long-term commitment to the growing domestic market as well as our Group's BRIC strategy,said Rainier van Roessel, member of the Board of Management of LANXESS AG. With the plant, LANXESS stands out as the only Western company to be manufacturing rubber chemicals in India.

LANXESS is investing about EUR 50 million in total at the 13 hectare Jhagadia site, which will also include a new ion exchange resins plant. This plant is on schedule to start up production this year and will be the most modern of its kind in Asia. Some 250 workers in total will be employed by LANXESS at the site.

The
ion exchange resins plant will manufacture products for industrial water treatment, for the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries, for food production and for power generation. There is a growing demand for clean water due to a booming population and the trend towards urbanization in India.

The LANXESS site is part of the newly-developed Jhagadia Chemical Park. The park, which is a project supported by the local government, is the home to other large companies and provides the necessary infrastructure required for operations. For example, there is an inland waterway to the international seaports of Nhava Sheva and Kandla on India's west coast.

The Rubber Chemicals business unit (RUC) is one of the world's leading manufacturers of rubber chemicals, which help improve the service life and properties of synthetic rubber. With production sites on four continents, RUC predominantly supplies tire manufacturers and the producers of technical rubber goods. Other major customers include companies in the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries as well as mining industry. The VulkanoxR brand of common antioxidants protect rubber goods ? particularly those made of unsaturated elastomers ? from gradual degradation through contact with oxygen, ozone or heat. Vulkanox thus protects rubber from premature material fatigue, crack formation or embrittlement. RUC belongs to LANXESS'
Performance Chemicals segment, which achieved sales of EUR 1,148 million in the first nine months of 2009.

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 6.58 billion in 2008 and currently around 14,600 employees in 23 countries. The company is represented at 43 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.


2010/4/20 Lanxess

LANXESS expands capacities for high-tech plastics in China

LANXESS will expand capacities at its state-of-the-art
compounding plant for high-tech plastics in Wux 無錫市, China. The German specialty chemicals company will invest in a third production line at the plant, which will increase compounding capacities by nearly 50 percent and is scheduled to go on stream mid-2011. After the expansion, the plant will have a capacity of approximately 60,000 metric tons per year.

This investment will serve the growing demand from Chinese and Asian customers for premium, high-performance engineering plastics, mainly driven by the booming automotive industry,said Axel C. Heitmann, LANXESS Chairman of the Board of Management. He added that LANXESS was considering further investments in Wuxi in the near future.

Lanxess is to increase the capacity of its engineering plastics compounding plant in Wuxi, China, by around half with a third production line capable of around 20,000 tonnes/year, while Borouge today inaugurated a 50,000 tonnes polyolefins compounding plant in Shanghai.
The Lanxess plant, which produces Durethan
nylon and Pocan PBT compounds, was opened in 2006 and its capacity was doubled with a second line a year later. Lanxess is considering further investments at Wuxi in the near future.


2010-05-07 LANXESS

LANXESS and TSRC to create rubber joint venture in China

Germany's LANXESS and Taiwan's TSRC Corporation will enter into a 50:50 joint venture in Greater China called
LANXESS-TSRC (Nantong) Chemical Industrial Company Ltd. The two companies are jointly investing 50 million USD (approx. EUR 36 million) in a new plant that will produce Nitrile Rubber (NBR) in Nantong 江蘇省南通市, northwest of Shanghai. The plant will have an initial capacity of 30,000 metric tons per year and serve the rapidly growing Chinese market with high-quality grades of NBR.

Groundbreaking is scheduled for September, 2010, and production is expected to start up in the first half of 2012. The marketing activities of the joint venture will begin in the summer of 2010. The joint venture will serve Chinese customers with NBR produced at
LANXESS' La Wantzenau site in France - the world's largest NBR site - until the Nantong plant starts up.

May 2010
We have transferred production of NBR rubber from our site in Sarnia, Canada, to the site in La Wantzenau, France. We will also transfer to La Wantzenau the NBR production operation in Brazil that we gained with the Petroflex acquisition.
With this global consolidation, La Wantzenau will become our sole NBR site worldwide. We plan to manufacture more than 100,000 tons of this specialty rubber there in the future - at just one plant, rather than three.

日本ゼオン NBR能力
  日本  
45千トン
  米国  
35千トン
  英国  
15千トン
  合計  
95千トン

The Chinese NBR market is the fastest growing in the world, boasting double-digit growth rates,said Werner Breuers, Member of LANXESS' Management Board. The partnership brings us a step closer to our customers and opens the door to further tie-ups in the emerging Asian market in the future.

The partnership is a win-win-combination. It brings together TSRC's long-history of engineering and production know-how in China with LANXESS' marketing and technical expertise in synthetic rubber,said TSRC's CEO Wei-Hua Tu.

The Nantong Economic and Technological Development Zone is located in Jiangsu province and is the home to many chemical, textile and electronic companies. It is located alongside China's coastline and the estuary of the Yangtze River. The investment will create 100 local jobs at the NBR plant - the most modern of its kind in Asia. Up to 500 people will be working during the construction phase. Clearance for the joint venture from the relevant anti-trust authorities is expected by the end of July, 2010.

TSRC currently operates highly cost-efficient emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (
ESBR ), polybutadiene rubber (BR) and thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) plants in Nantong and is one of the largest synthetic rubber producers in Asia. The products are sold under the tradename Taipol. TSRC posted sales of USD 700 million in 2009 and currently employs 1,100 people worldwide. In addition to its Nantong site, TSRC has production plants in Shanghai and Jinan in China as well as in Taiwan and Thailand.

 会社名:Shen Hua Chemical Industrial Company Limited  申華化学
 場所
  :Nantong Economic & Technological Development Zone, Nantong ,Jiangsu
 出資者:Polybus Pte Limited ( a subsidiary of TSRC Corporation 台湾)
      Marubeni Corporation
      Nantong Petro-Chemical Corporation
 製品  :SBR 170千トン

 会社名: 台橡宇部(南通)化学工業 有限公司
 場所  : 江蘇省南通市南通経済技術開発区
 出資者: TSRC(台湾) 55%、宇部興産25%、丸紅 20%
 能力  :
BR 50,000 d/年 (2009 年稼働、2011 年に72,000 d/年に増強予定)
 設立  : 2006年9月

TSRC (Shanghai) Industries Ltd. was set up in the Song-Jiang Zone and TSRC (Jinan) Industries Ltd. was established in Shandong Province, providing a total annual production capacity of 18,000 metric tons of TPE applied materials.

LANXESS is the world's largest producer of synthetic rubber and NBR. Its products sold under the brand names Perbunan, Krynac, Baymod and Nanoprene are part of LANXESS' Technical Rubber Products business unit (TRP). The products have a higher resistance to oil than conventional rubbers. They also demonstrate a better resistance to ozone, UV light, hot air and long-term aging. NBR is used in a wide-range of applications such as seals, hoses for hydraulics and pneumatics, rubber gloves, elastic threads, as well as blankets for print cylinders and rolls.

TRP has production sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen, Marl (Germany), La Wantzenau (France), Orange (United States) and is part of LANXESS'
Performance Polymers segment, which recorded sales of EUR 2.38 billion in 2009.

With approximately 1,000 employees and five production sites, LANXESS achieved total sales in Greater China of EUR 584 million in 2009.

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 5.06 billion in 2009 and currently around 14,300 employees in 23 countries. The company is represented at 43 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.


2010-05-13

Construction starts on first LANXESS plant in Russia

German specialty chemicals group LANXESS is today officially starting work on construction of its first production facility in Russia. In the future,
LANXESS subsidiary Rhein Chemie will produce rubber chemicals in Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod region for the markets in Russia and the CIS.

Russia and the CIS are key growth markets for us as part of our strategic focus on the BRIC countries. Construction of this plant is a further important step in our long-term strategy, following our official entry onto the Russian market last year,said Rainier van Roessel, member of the LANXESS Board of Management. We are currently seeing a gradual recovery of the rubber industry in Russia, which we want to accompany with a targeted, market-oriented investment.LANXESS supplies the markets in Russia and the CIS countries mainly with high-performance rubber and rubber chemicals for the tire and automotive industry, color pigments for the construction industry and ion exchange resins for industrial water treatment.

The new plant in the Dzerzhinsk Industrial Park will meet LANXESS
high international standards of safety and sustainability and will be equipped with state-of-the-art production technology. The project is due to be completed at the start of 2011, with Rhein Chemie creating 50 new jobs at the site in the medium term.

Rubber chemicals for car and tire industries

The company will produce up to
1,500 metric tons of Rhenogran (予備分散ゴム薬品) and Rhenodiv rubber additives and release agents at the new plant. These products are used primarily to manufacture car tires and technical rubber products such as hoses and seals.

We expect to see a rise in demand from the Russian car and tire industries for quality products and we will be able to cater to their needs in the future through our new plant and high-quality, innovative product portfolio. Our rubber additives and release agents enable us to help our customers enhance the quality of their rubber products and boost their position on the global market,explains Anno Borkowsky, Managing Director of Rhein Chemie GmbH. The excellent location in close proximity to our customers and the good infrastructure in the Nizhny Novgorod region were crucial in choosing the site.Until now, Rhein Chemie has supplied Russian customers from facilities in Germany.

Own LANXESS presence in Russia since 2009

LANXESS has had its own company in Russia since 2009. The sales office of OOO LANXESS was opened in the Federation Tower in Moscow in March of last year and has a current workforce of around 30.

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 5.06 billion in 2009 and currently around 14,300 employees in 23 countries. The company is represented at 42 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.


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LANXESS breaks ground for most modern rubber plant in Asia

* Production to start in Singapore in first quarter of 2013
* Good 10% of total investment going towards environmental protection
* Ceremony on Jurong Island

LANXESS, the world's biggest manufacturer of synthetic rubber, is breaking ground for the construction of a new
butyl rubber plant in Singapore. The facility on Jurong Island is designed for a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year and will require an investment of up to EUR 400 million (USD 575 million). Between 10 and 15 percent of the total investment for the plant, the most modern of its kind in Asia, will go into environmental protection measures.

"In terms of volume, this investment is the largest in our five-year history," said LANXESS CEO Axel C. Heitmann. "It underlines our commitment to synthetic rubber as well as to our customers and to the future growth markets in Asia."

I also welcome Lanxessdecision to relocate its Butyl Rubber Global Headquarters and its top management to Singapore. It affirms Singapores value as a strategic vantage point in the region for global companies.said Mr Lim Hng Kiang, Minister for Trade and Industry.

By the time production is launched in the first quarter of 2013, some 3,500 metric tons of steel, 350 kilometers of cabling and 80 kilometers of piping will have been installed in the new facility.

The new rubber plant is being built on an area of 200,000 square meters. The property is leased from JTC Corporation, an authorized agent of the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry. The neighboring Shell refinery will ensure a long-term supply of isobutene, the main raw material for the production of synthetic rubber. Through its new plant, LANXESS will create some 200 new, highly skilled jobs and fill them locally. At the height of the construction phase, some 1,500 workers will be employed at the site.

The new plant also sets standards for the region and the world in terms of environmental protection. Between 10 and 15 percent of the building sum is to be invested in modern technologies engineered to protect the environment. With the help of pioneering technology, the manufacturing process will require significantly less steam, thus lowering the plant's overall energy consumption. The process not only is evidence of LANXESS' many years of experience in rubber manufacturing, but also raises the bar in the industry. Ultramodern flue gas purification systems will break down undesirable chemical compounds and release lower volumes of greenhouse gases. Thanks to a modern wastewater treatment plant and closed circuits, only half as much wastewater will be produced in the future.


Booming Asian market
LANXESS will be able to meet the rising demand for butyl rubber in tires, driven by the mobility trend, which is developing particularly among the growing middle classes in China and India. In addition, on account of its unique properties, butyl rubber is also a key product for use in the pharmaceutical industry, primarily in Asia.

The butyl rubber market is expected to see average growth rates of over three percent again in coming years. At present, the two LANXESS rubber plants in
Zwijndrecht (Belgium) and Sarnia (Canada) are producing at high capacity.

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Butyl rubber is a synthetic rubber characterized by high impermeability to air due to the properties of its raw materials: isobutene and isoprene. The largest field of application is the manufacture of innerliners - the innermost layer of a tire that prevents air from escaping - and innertubes. The tire industry uses halobutyl to make innerliners for car, truck, bus and aircraft tires. Butyl rubber is used in tire innertubes for cars, trucks, bikes and for balls used in various sports. Special applications include seals and closures for the pharmaceutical industry. The use of butyl rubber in making chewing gum is an interesting secondary line of business.

The Butyl Rubber business unit is part of the Performance Polymers segment, which achieved total sales in 2009 of EUR 2,388 million.

LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 5.06 billion in 2009 and currently around 14,300 employees in 23 countries. The company is represented at 42 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.