LANXESS is a leader in specialty chemicals and operates in all important global markets. With its extensive portfolio, it focuses on premium business. Its core business comprises the development, manufacture and sale of plastics, rubber, specialty chemicals and intermediates. In addition, it supports its customers in developing and implementing made-to-measure system solutions. In these areas, which are at the very heart of the chemical industry, LANXESS has core expertise in the form of chemical and application-related know-how, flexible asset management and customer proximity. Our aim is, through innovative products, optimized processes and new ideas, to generate added value for the customers and the company.

Many forces combine at LANXESS's 47 sites worldwide to produce the optimal result. This applies both to the products and processes themselves and to the 16,100 or so staff in 30 countries that are responsible for the company’s day-to-day business. LANXESS is treading the path that is inherent in its name: Combined from the French verb “lancer” meaning to thrust forward and the English noun “success”, LANXESS represents the determined will to achieve and the readiness to embrace continual change.

In Brazil the company employs about 1,000 people in its units distributed in the cities of São Paulo, Porto Feliz (SP), São Leopoldo (RS), Triunfo – TRP (RS), an office in Recife (PE) and LANXESS Elastomers sites in Duque de Caxias (RJ), Cabo de Santo Agostinho (PE) and Triunfo (RS).

We are chemistry in motion

More than a name, the LANXESS brand speaks for itself. As a declaration of internationality, the merger of the French word “lancer”, meaning to launch, and the English world “success”, it represents determination and the desire to achieve success, as well as representing a dynamic company, focused on its objectives and aiming for the future.