Lanxess participated at the Tire Technology Expo 2023 in Hannover, Germany, from March 21 to 23, and presented new product solutions for sustainable tire production developed by its Rhein Chemie business unit. The products introduced include Vulkanox HS, an anti-aging agent made from more than 50% sustainable raw materials, and Aktiplast 79, a silicone-free mold release agent and rubber processing...
Lanxess has developed the Product Carbon Footprint Engine, a tool that automatically calculates the carbon footprint of its products. The tool uses existing data accumulated by the company’s divisions to calculate the emissions generated from the extraction of raw materials to the shipment of products to factories, following a cradle-to-gate approach in the product lifecycle. In addition to carbon emissions...
German chemical companies Lanxess and Covestro have agreed to cooperate in the production of energy-intensive basic chemicals and to take climate change more into consideration at their production sites located on the Lower Rhine River in Germany. Currently, Lanxess sources chlorine, caustic soda, and hydrogen from Covestro’s ISCC PLUS certified sites in Leverkusen and Krefeld-Uerdigen, Germany. Following the agreement, Covestro...
On Nov. 29, Lanxess Japan President and Representative Director Jacques Perez gave a business update at the Shin-Marunouchi Building Conference Square. For the first nine months of 2022, Lanxess reported net sales of 6.12 billion euros ($6.45 billion), up 38 percent year-on-year, and EBITDA of €755 million, up 17 percent. With regard to the forecast for 2022, the company says...
German chemical company Lanxess has obtained certified carbon footprint values for the base resins used in its Durethan polyamide (PA) and Pocan polyester (PBT) products. The company will now be able to provide these values to its customers in the plastic processing sector. Certification here was carried out by an accredited certification body, and covers not only PA6 precursor caprolactam...
Lanxess AG exhibited at the Tire Technology Expo that was held in Hanover, Germany, over May 18–20. The company took the opportunity to show off a range of products, including its highly versatile and sustainable vulcanization bladders for tire production. Specifically on display here were permanently coated vulcanization bladders under Lanxess’s Rhenotype brand. These bladders not only provide a long...
