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Lanxess CEO Confirms Plans for Substantial Job Cuts

07.11.2014 - Lanxess CEO Matthias Zachert has confirmed plans for substantial job cuts leaked days earlier by a German newspaper, announcing plans to slash 6% of its 16,700-member workforce up...

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Lanxess Realignment Could See 1,200 Jobs Go

04.11.2014 - A realignment scheme initiated by new Lanxess CEO Matthias Zachert last spring could see the chemical producer's 16,900-strong workforce cut by 7%, a German newspaper has reported...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

A Perfect Symbiosis of Material and Design

05.10.2014 - Replacing sheet metal with Tepex dynalite continuous-fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites delivers significant additional weight savings in numerous areas of plastic-metal...

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Bayer Said to Have Tapped Rothschild for BMS Float

23.09.2014 - Bayer is said to have chosen investment bank Rothschild to advise on its plan for an initial public offering (ipo) of engineering plastics sub-group Bayer MaterialScience (BMS)...

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Lanxess Drops Plans to Divest Rubber Vulcanizing Chemicals

16.09.2014 - Lanxess has dropped plans to sell its rubber accelerator and anti-oxidant businesses as announced earlier. Instead the business with the chemicals used to vulcanize rubber is to be...

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Krahn Chemie to Distribute Lanxess Elastomers in Eastern Europe

22.08.2014 - Lanxess' High Performance Elastomers business unit has transferred its distribution business in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to Krahn Chemie Polska based in Poland. The...

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Lanxess Business Unit Leather under new leadership

18.08.2014 - Since July 1, 2014, Luis López-Remón is heading the business unit Leather (LEA) of specialty chemicals company Lanxess. He succeeds Markus Eckert, who is now fully concentrating on...

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Lanxess Expands High-tech Plastics Production in USA

15.08.2014 - Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is expanding its Gastonia, North Carolina, compounding facility for high-tech plastics by adding a second production line. The expansion...