15 November 2013
Details
Lanxess has completed the expansion of
its cresol production plant
in Leverkusen, Germany.
The expansion increases capacity
for the global market by some 20 %
and take one and a half year to build
with around EUR 20 million investment for this new unit.
Use and Applications : Cresol
- Agrochemicals
- Vitamin E
- Aroma Chemicals
- Resins
- Flame Retardants
Lanxess,
Hubert Fink,
Head of the Advanced Industrial Intermediates Business Unit
- The new elements of this facility will help us manufacture
even purer cresol for our customers.
- They are also designed in such a way that
energy released in production is fed back
into manufacturing process in the form of steam.
- Our cresol plant once again highlights
LANXESS' ongoing commitment to making production processes
as environmentally friendly as possible and reducing energy costs.
- The expansion of cresol plant is part of
LANXESS Advanced Industrial Intermediates Business Unit's
long-term strategy.
AROMATICS NETWORK IS STRENGTHENED FURTHER
- To be able to expand our global position in the future,
it will be necessary to continue increasing our productivity.
This is why we are planning to increase the capacities of
other high-quality intermediates to
* keep pace with the growth of our customers and
* meet their demand for reliable delivery even more effectively.
- In the first expansion step completed in 2010, LANXESS invested
around EUR 35 million in the aromatics network,
increasing capacities by up to 60 percent.
LANXESS : THE AROMATIC NETWORK,
A COMPLEX OF FACILITIES WITH MORE THAN 50 PRODUCTS
- The LANXESS aromatics network,
to which the cresol plant in Leverkusen belongs,
consists of a total of 7 large-scale plants-
* mostly in Leverkusen-with further finishing stages in
* Krefeld-Uerdingen, Dormagen and Brunsbuttel, Germany.
- The starting basis for the aromatics networks
comprises the petrochemical raw materials
Benzene and Toluene,
which are further processed through a variety of chemical reaction steps
into a diversity of intermediates.
- These products
-more than 50 of them in total-
are used worldwide as key starting raw materials for
* active ingredients in crop protection and pharmaceuticals
* perfume and flavorings, as well as for
* polymers
* paper chemicals
* surface coatings and pigments.
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