16.11.2015
- Germany’s Lanxess has agreed to form a 50:50 marketing and joint venture with China’s Chongqing Changshou Chemical to exclusively handle Chinese distribution of chloroprene rubber...
07.08.2015
- Germany’s Lanxess is carving out its synthetic rubber business off into a standalone company in preparation for a sale or a strategic partnership, CEO Matthias Zachert said in...
14.04.2015
- German chemical producer Lanxess has started production at its new ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) plant at Changzhou in China's Jiangsu Province. Over the next several...
15.12.2014
- Wacker has reorganized its silicone distribution business in the Nordic countries. As of March 1, 2015, Lindberg & Lund Oy, a subsidiary of the Norwegian chemicals distributor...
08.09.2014
- Peter Greven, a producer of oleochemical additives with sites in Germany, the Netherlands and Malaysia, has finalized its acquisition of the paper deinking chemicals business of...
19.06.2014
- German specialty chemicals producer Lanxess has inaugurated its new €18 million polychloroprene solid rubber production expansion at Dormagen. This lifts output capability for the...
04.06.2014
- If Matthias Zachert mounted the steep steps to the new Lanxess headquarters on the Rhine River in Cologne, when returning to the German chemical producer as CEO on April l, he may...
28.05.2014
- US styrenics producer Styron, alternately known as Trinseo, has said it plans to close its only North American polycarbonate plant, at Freeport, Texas, by the end of 2014 and exit...
