New managerial appointments at LANXESS

Dr. Michael Gauss becomes Head of the Functional Chemicals Business Unit / Michael Kiefer takes over at Procurement

27-Dec-2005 - At the beginning of the new year, there will be new appointments to two key management positions in the LANXESS chemicals group. Effective January 1, 2006, Dr. Michael Gauss will become Head of the Functional Chemicals Business Unit, replacing Knut Balzer. And on February 1, Michael Kiefer will ...

Kemira aquires Lanxess Paper Chemicals

23-Dec-2005 - Kemira Oyj and Lanxess have reached an agreement on the acquisition of Lanxess' paper chemicals business by Kemira. The net sales of the Lanxess paper chemicals business totalled approx. EUR 240 million in the year 2004. The debt-free price of the business is EUR 88 million. It has been estimated ...

LANXESS streamlines sales organization for leather chemicals

Leaner structures for Europe

05-Dec-2005 - Effective January 1, 2006, LANXESS Distribution GmbH will transfer responsibility for order acceptance and processing and invoicing for the Europe-wide distribution of leather chemicals to LANXESS S.r.l. - sole partner - in Italy. "Significant changes in the market conditions across Europe, the ...

LANXESS increases prices for technical rubber products

24-Nov-2005 - The Technical Rubber Products (TRP) Business Unit of LANXESS Deutschland GmbH increased its prices for its entire product range with effect from November 1, 2005 or the termination of a contract, whichever was the later. For the products Buna® EP (EPDM), Perbunan®, Krynac®, Baymod® N (NBR), ...

LANXESS to concentrate its ABS business on specialty products and compounded colors

23-Nov-2005 - LANXESS plans to withdraw the products Lustran® ABS M202AS, Lustran® ABS M301AS and Lustran® ABS M304 from its range effective March 31, 2006. The reason for this is the site consolidation in Europe announced in the summer of 2005, which will involve the relocation of ABS production to Tarragona, ...

LANXESS plans to sell Dorlastan fibers business to Asahi Kasei Fibers of Japan

17-Nov-2005 - The chemicals group LANXESS has completed the search for a purchaser for its Dorlastan® fibers business. This morning, LANXESS and Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation (AKF) of Osaka, Japan, widely agreed on the probable text of a sale and purchase agreement for the Dorlastan® business and signed a ...

LANXESS receives award for innovative process in the fluorination of chiral hydroxy compounds

15-Nov-2005 - Dr. Axel Pleschke of the Fine Chemicals Business Unit of LANXESS Deutschland GmbH took second place in this year's CPhI Innovation Award with his paper entitled "Fluorination of chiral compounds at technical scale". The papers were presented on November 1 at the Conference on Pharmaceutical ...

Saltigo - a new name for high-tech chemistry

Carve-out of LANXESS Fine Chemicals is under way

04-Nov-2005 - The Fine Chemicals business unit achieves economic independence next year as a separate legal entity - with a new name, a new alignment and a new business model. "Starting in the second quarter of 2006 we will market our fine chemicals expertise throughout the world under the name Saltigo, which ...

Price increase for hydrofluoric acid in Europe

01-Nov-2005 - LANXESS Deutschland GmbH will increase its prices in Europe for hydrofluoric acid by twelve percent with immediate effect. This has been caused by the drastic increases in the quotations being offered for the main raw material fluorite, due to limited supplies, and for sulfuric acid and oleum. ...

LANXESS increases prices for hydrazine hydrate

28-Oct-2005 - LANXESS Deutschland GmbH will be increasing the price of hydrazine hydrate and the activated hydrazine hydrate Levoxin® globally by up to Euro 350 per ton - referring to 100 per cent product - with effect from November 1, 2005, or, as contracts allow. The increase is necessary due to a dramatic ...