Chemical Intermediates
The Chemical Intermediates segment produces a multitude of chemical products. Our core competencies are research and development and the production and marketing of highly specialized industrial and fine chemicals.
Our products meet very high standards and are used in wide-ranging applications in many everyday products. The Chemical Intermediates segment comprises the following business units:
Basic Chemicals
The Basic Chemicals Business Unit is one of the world's major suppliers of high-quality industrial chemicals. Aromatic compounds have a predominant position in its broad portfolio of products.
Chlorobenzenes, chlorotoluenes and nitrotoluenes, as well as derivatives like nitrochlorobenzenes, cresols, toluidines and monoisocyanates are manufactured in an integrated cluster of production plants. The Basic Chemicals Business Unit is also a major producer of amines, amino alcohols, benzyl products, hydrofluoric acid and sulfuric acid, fluorine compounds, oxidation products like phthalic anhydride and polyols such as trimethylol propane.
Our longstanding manufacturing experience along with our high-quality products form the basis for reliable partnerships with our customers.
Fine Chemicals
The mission of the Business Unit Fine Chemicals is to strengthen LANXESS' position in the development and delivery of innovative, high-quality fine chemicals, agrochemicals, pharmaceutical active ingredients and services. Our goal is to assist our worldwide customers with the safe and cost-effective production of their fine chemical requirements - for quantities from 1 kg up to a multitude of hundreds of tons.
We have developed leading-edge technologies and innovative methods to deliver our high-value processes, materials and services in a cost-effective and timely manner. LANXESS is committed to satisfying customer needs by providing products and services that meet higher standards of quality, safety and performance.
Inorganic Pigments
In our everyday life, color in design is gaining greater and greater importance. For many decades now, Bayferrox® and Chromoxide pigments have been used as colorants for concrete, rooting tiles, coatings, plastics and paper, as well as special applications such as toners, with a proven track record. The products are characterized by their high quality as well as their easy and environmentally-friendly utilization.
As a global manufacturer and major supplier of inorganic pigments, LANXESS can offer a broad and innovative product range together with a well-known high level of technical service to serve the increasing demands of the market.
