LANXESS Advanced Industrial Intermediates (AII) business unit completes three-year investment plan in the aromatics network
INDUSTRY
by Shrutee K/DNS
Thane – The production of aromatic intermediates is
a core competency of specialty chemicals company LANXESS, as demonstrated by a
recently completed, three-year investment program totaling over EUR 20 million
aimed at expanding the company's aromatics network. The comprehensive
modernization project focused mainly on facilities that manufacture
nitrotoluenes, chlorobenzenes, and their downstream products.
Since 2013, LANXESS has modernized several production plants
in the aromatics network operated by the Advanced Industrial Intermediates
(AII) business unit at the German locations. Since the introduction of
state-of-the-art automation systems, LANXESS also tapped into considerable
capacity reserves, for example for nitrotoluene derivatives. At the same time
the safety equipment was updated and significantly improved once again.
“The new automation systems, combined with the knowledge and
experience of the specialists working on implementation, have not only brought
the plants up to the latest standard, but also to a new level of efficiency,”
emphasizes Dr. Torsten Hauschild, head of the Aromatics Network at AII.
Developed over decades, the LANXESS
aromatics network is a complexly networked structure encompassing seven large
production plants that manufacture over 60 synthesis components from
petrochemical raw materials. Its name comes from the products themselves:
aromatic compounds, mostly derivatives of benzene and toluene, of which
chlorobenzenes, nitrotoluenes and their downstream products are among the most
important. They are used by numerous industries to generate a wide range of
final products. ,
Commenting on the investments, Mr. Neelanjan Banerjee, Senior Vice
President – BU AII and Senior Executive Director, LANXESS India said, “Our AII
business unit in India, is an important supplier of chemical intermediates to a
variety of end application segments in the domestic as well as overseas export
markets. With these new investments in the Aromatics assets in Germany, the AII
business unit will continue to maintain leadership positions in markets like
India for nitrotoluenes, chlorobenzenes, and their downstream products.”
Advanced Industrial
Intermediates business unit
The Advanced Industrial Intermediates business unit belongs to
the Advanced Intermediates segment, which achieved total sales in fiscal 2014
of EUR 1.6 billion. Its production sites in Germany are located in Leverkusen,
Krefeld, Dormagen and Brunsbüttel. The business unit has a total of 1,300
employees in Germany, 650 of them in Leverkusen.
For more information on products from the LANXESS AII business
unit, go to http://advancedindustrialintermediates.com/
LANXESS
is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 8.0 billion in 2014
and about 16,300 employees in 29 countries. The company is currently
represented at 52 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is
the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates
and specialty chemicals. LANXESS is a member of the leading sustainability
indices Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI World and DJSI Europe) and
FTSE4Good.Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI).
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