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Start-up of the reverse osmosis membrane production plant in Bitterfeld

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September 16, 2011 | Press Releases, Financial & Business, Trade & Technical Press, Standorte national

LANXESS opens new chemical plant for water technology in Bitterfeld

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has inaugurated a new chemical plant for membrane filtration technology for water treatment at its site in Bitterfeld.

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September 16, 2011 | Press Releases, Trade & Technical Press, Performance Chemicals, Ion Exchange Resins

Membrane filtration elements from Bitterfeld complement Lewatit ion exchange resins

On September 16, 2011, specialty chemicals company LANXESS has inaugurated its new production plant for membrane filtration elements in Bitterfeld, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The state-of-the-art facility is additionally equipped with laboratories, logistics areas and offices in order to deliver ready-to-use elements for reverse osmosis (RO) purposes to customers worldwide.

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September 16, 2011 | Backgrounder

LANXESS in Bitterfeld

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September 16, 2011 | Backgrounder

Ion Exchange Resins business unit (ION)

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Speech Dr. Axel C. Heitmann

September 16, 2011 | Speeches

Start-up of the reverse osmosis membrane production plant in Bitterfeld

Address by Dr. Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of the Board of Management of LANXESS AG

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Dr. Axel Heitmann 

Dr. Axel C. Heitmann, Chairman of the Board of Management of LANXESS AG.

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At its Bitterfeld site LANXESS already produces monodisperse ion exchange resins for water treatment.

Now LANXESS has inaugurated a new facility for manufacturing membrane elements: with the pioneering reverse osmosis technology for seawater desalination that is new to the specialty chemicals company, LANXESS is broadening its product range and opening up further areas of application in water treatment.

   
Lewabrane 

The building measuring around 4,000 square meters houses not only production and logistics facilities but also highly modern laboratories and offices.

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Lewabrane 

In the future LANXESS is to produce Lewabrane membrane elements for water treatment in Bitterfeld. These filter out undesirable substances from water such as salts, pesticides, herbicides, viruses, bacteria and also minute particles.

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Lewabrane 

A single membrane element consists of a package with more than 20 layers. This is assembled into a spiral wound element with a diameter of 20 centimeters and a length of one meter and then fixed.

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Lewabrane 

The membranes are based on a three-layer composite structure that is manufactured in several production stages.

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Lewabrane 

The membrane's active separating layer forms a wafer-thin polyamide film that separates the salt from water.

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Lewabrane 

For quality assurance purposes each individual Lewabrane product is checked in an element tester.

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Opening ceremony Bitterfeld 

LANXESS CEO, Axel C. Heitmann, opened the new plant for membrane technology at the Bitterfeld site.

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Opening ceremony Bitterfeld 

State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff is pleased about the new LANXESS plant for membrane technology. 200 new jobs are being created at the site.

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Opening ceremony Bitterfeld 

Chairman of the LANXESS Board of Management Axel C. Heitmann and State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff today officially opened the state-of-the-art facility. The company is investing a total of around EUR 30 million in this project. The mayor of Bitterfeld-Wolfen, Petra Wust, took also part at the opening ceremony.

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Opening ceremony Bitterfeld 

Chairman of the LANXESS Board of Management Axel C. Heitmann and State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt Reiner Haseloff signed the first membrane element. (On the right side: Gerold Schade, General Manager of the IAB Ionenaustauscher GmbH, and Member of the Board of Management of LANXESS Rainier van Roessel)

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Opening ceremony Bitterfeld 

Jean-Marc Vesselle, Head of the Business Unit ION, Gerold Schade, General Manager of the IAB Ionenaustauscher GmbH and State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, during the opening ceremony in Bitterfeld.

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