Business
Business organization
The LANXESS Group is structured in three segments with 13 business units, each of which conducts its own operations and has global profit responsibility. Group functions and service companies assigned to them support the business units by providing financial, legal, technical and other centralized services. Complementing this global alignment of the business units and group functions, the country organizations ensure the necessary proximity to markets and provide the organizational infrastructure required.
No material changes to the legal or organizational structures described above are planned in fiscal 2011.
The segments in brief
Our three segments comprise a total of 13 business units.
Synthetic rubber and high-tech plastics manufacturing activities are combined in the Performance Polymers segment.
Performance Polymers |
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Business units |
Butyl Rubber |
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Performance Butadiene Rubbers |
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Technical Rubber Products |
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Semi-Crystalline Products |
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Sites |
Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen, Leverkusen, |
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Antwerp and Zwijndrecht, Belgium |
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La Wantzenau and Port Jérôme, France |
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Sarnia, Canada |
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Orange, U.S.A. |
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Cabo, Duque de Caxias and Triunfo, Brazil |
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Wuxi, China |
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Applications |
Tires |
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Automotive |
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Electronics |
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Electrical engineering |
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Medical equipment | |
The business activities that LANXESS combines in its Advanced Intermediates segment make it one of the world’s leading suppliers of basic and fine chemicals.
Advanced Intermediates |
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Basic Chemicals |
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Saltigo |
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Sites |
Dormagen, Krefeld-Uerdingen, |
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Baytown, U.S.A. |
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Liyang, China |
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Nagda, India |
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Agrochemicals |
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Automotive |
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Construction |
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Dyestuffs |
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Coatings |
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Pharmaceuticals | |
The Performance Chemicals segment embraces the Group’s application-oriented specialty chemicals operations.
Performance Chemicals |
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Business units |
Material Protection Products |
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Inorganic Pigments |
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Functional Chemicals |
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Leather |
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Rhein Chemie |
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Rubber Chemicals |
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Ion Exchange Resins |
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Sites |
Bitterfeld, Brunsbüttel, Dormagen, Krefeld- |
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Antwerp, Belgium |
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Filago, Italy |
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Vilassar de Mar, Spain |
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Branston, United Kingdom |
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Isithebe, Merebank, Newcastle and Rustenburg, South Africa |
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Burgettstown, Bushy Park |
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Zárate, Argentina |
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Porto Feliz, Brazil |
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Qingdao, Tongling, Shanghai and Wuxi, China |
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Madurai and Jhagadia, India |
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Toyohashi, Japan |
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Sydney, Australia |
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Applications |
Disinfection |
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Wood preservatives |
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Food and beverages |
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Construction |
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Colorants |
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Leather |
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Automotive |
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Water treatment | |