VIRTUAL DAYS AGENDA (CEST)
Opening Day
DR. ANNO BORKOWSKY, MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT OF LANXESS AG
LANXESS is fully committed to growing together with its customers in 2021. Board of Management member Anno Borkowsky explains why the Group is coming through the Corona crisis so strongly, how it will expand its specialty chemicals portfolio through acquisitions and how LANXESS is will become climate-neutral by 2040.
RALF KRÜGER, REGIONAL HEAD EMEA
At LANXESS, we are convinced that Europe will continue to play an important role in global chemistry in the future. And: we are not only looking at Europe, we are also crossing borders looking at Middle East and Africa. This helps us to find innovative application areas and all-new geographical perspectives. Join us to find out how this can benefit downstream industries and open new markets also for our customers!
STEFAN BORST, GENERAL DELEGATE OF THE BOARD OF MANAGEMENT LANXESS EU LIAISON OFFICE BRUSSELS
The new Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) is the biggest overhaul of EU chemicals regulation in over a decade. The impact on production, registration and use of chemical products will be massive and bring about multifold challenges and opportunities for the industry. We provide an overview of the most important aspects of the CSS.
PHILIPP JUNGE, HEAD OF E-MOBILITY & CIRCULAR ECONOMY
With the foundation of the new "Initiative for Electromobility and Circular Economy", LANXESS has bundled strategic future topics in one organisation. The webinar will give an introduction to the ambitions of LANXESS in new mobility. Also, it will provide you with insights into concrete Circular Economy examples at LANXESS.
DR. DIRK STEINHILBER, TECHNICAL MARKETING MANAGER
Business Unit: Liquid Purification Technologies
In the treatment of drinking and waste water, ion exchange resins benefit from their unique ability to selectively bind ions such as iron, manganese, arsenic, and lead. Even groundwater can be treated efficiently in this way, in which detrimental constituents such as chromate, nitrate, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), surfactants, and perchlorate are bound to ion exchangers.
HANS-JÜRGEN WEDEMEYER, TECHNICAL MARKETING MANAGER
Business Unit: Liquid Purification Technologies
One of the main applications for ion exchange resins is to treat water in power plants. For the production of boiler feed water and to clean obtained condensate from impurities, different ion exchange resin types and applications are used. In this webinar we will give an overview of important quality points and possible applications as well as some basic info about the use of ion exchange resins in industrial water treatment.
Coatings and Construction
STEPHAN SPIEGELHAUER, MARKET SEGMENT MANAGER COATINGS
Business Unit: Inorganic Pigments
Our iron oxides provide more than just color. During this webinar you will learn how our Bayferrox high performance pigments contribute with value-adding features to satisfy coatings trends in terms of functionality, processability, surface quality and environmental protection.
MONIKA LAMORATTA, TECHNICAL MARKETING MANAGER FOR BIOCIDES IN PAINTS, COATINGS AND POLYMERS
Business Unit: Material Protection Products
Dr. HÜLYA GÜN, HEAD OF PIGMENT PREPARATIONS & FORMULATION
Business Unit: Polymer Additives
Fine paste products from LANXESS are aqueous dispersions of organic pigments – Levanyl® – and inorganic pigments – Levanox®. LANXESS aqueous pigment dispersions combine high performance with easy dosing and mixing characteristics without the need for a lengthy grinding process. In addition, Levanyl® and Levanox® products combine optimal color strength, gloss, transparency and intensity with a low energy and dosage requirement due to their small particle size and high pigment content.
ANGELI PAREKH, APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT CHEMIST & TECHNICAL SERVICE
Business Unit: Urethane Systems
Polyisocyanates are widely used in the paints and coatings industry. LANXESS’ Trixene® Aqua BI products are water-based blocked isocyanate dispersions. Their blocked technology ensures high industrial hygiene and safe handling. Trixene® Aqua Blocked Isocyanates can be used as cross linkers and adhesion promoters for coatings and finishes on flexible and hard substrates.
OLIVER FLESCHENTRAEGER, MARKET SEGMENT MANAGER CONSTRUCTION
Business Unit: Inorganic Pigments
Inorganic pigments add lasting color to numerous building materials used in architecture and infrastructure projects. Our pigment expert will give a colorful overview of which pigments are most suitable for your specific construction application. Find out more.
New Mobility
DR. WOLFGANG EBENBECK, SENIOR NEW MOBILITY EXPERT ELECTROMOBILITY & CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Europe is facing a boom in battery cell production for electric cars. According to transport experts, 18 gigafactories for lithium-ion batteries with a capacity of 566 gigawatt hours are currently under construction or planned in Europe for 2030. However, there is still a lack of sufficient local production capacity in the upstream value chain for battery materials.
The webinar will highlight various LANXESS emobility solutions and outline LXS' contribution to build up a sustainable supply chain for battery materials in EU.
DR. LARS MAY, HEAD OF APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY SCREEN AND PLASTICS
Business Unit: Polymer Additives
Sustainability issues can be tackled using MACROLEX® dyes, high-tech soluble dyes for brillant colors in plastic. The highly advantageous properties and extremely reliable high-class quality of all MACROLEX® dyes predestine them for numerous applications – automotive, food packaging, toys, and many more. Therefore, MACROLEX® dyes are promising candidates for applications in New Mobility. For this purpose orange colored high voltage components are desired predominantly. Our new MACROLEX® orange dye meets the upcoming demanding requirements perfectly: e.g. brilliant color and very high thermal stability in polyamide.
JULIAN HASPEL, HEAD OF E-POWERTRAIN GROUP
Business Unit: High Performance Materials
The shift towards battery electric vehicles offers new opportunities for engineering plastics provided by LANXESS’ business unit High Performance Materials. The presentation will share insights into new requirements coming along with new technologies, e.g. electrified powertrain or charging infrastructure. Examples will be given how we overcome technical hurdles by smart product and application development in cooperation with our customers.
CAROLINE DAVISON, STRATEGY & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
Business Unit: Lubricant Additives Business
LANXESS is committed to the long term growth of the global lubricants industry as a trusted, specialized component provider for Automotive applications. As the Automotive industry heads into its biggest transformation yet, e-mobility, we explore the trends influencing adoption of Hybrid and full battery electric vehicles, plus the impact on automotive lubricants.
DR. DIRK STEINHILBER, TECHNICAL MARKETING MANAGER
Business Unit: Liquid Purification Technologies
The sustainable extraction of battery materials like high-purity lithium, copper, nickel, cobalt, and platinum group metals, that are suitable for use in batteries, is essential for advancing the transition to electric vehicles. The use of ion exchange resins leads to highly efficient refining processes that can be used for the production of batteries with a good carbon footprint and water balance.
Plastics and Sustainability
DR. GÜNTER MARGRAF, HEAD OF GLOBAL PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Business Unit: High Performance Materials
The journey of Lanxess HPM towards a sustainable Durethan and Pocan portfolio will be highlighted. The sustainability strategy of of Lanxess HPM targets both reduction of product carbon footprints as well as increasing content of recycled raw materials. In the first part of the talk, we will present measures for carbon footprint reduction in our Caprolactam production facility. The second part of the presentation will focus on the usage of recycled feedstocks in our materials, such as glass fibers based on post industrial recycling.
FLORIAN KIRCHNER, TECHNICAL SERVICE MANAGER
Business Unit: Lubricant Additives Business
In the webinar we focus on products within our portfolio that fit to pillars of sustainability. Such as meeting environmentally friendly requirements, and being biodegradable and non-toxic. It will offer an opportunity to find out more about those products that have been designed using sustainable resources, as well as those that offer advanced technical performance, such as longer oil life, and greater energy efficiency.
Business Unit: Polymer Additives
The presentation highlights the technical performance of LANXESS additives solutions for PVC-P applications. This includes the performance of LANXESS special plasticizers, such as Mesamoll® and polymeric plasticizers Ultramoll®, in typical plasticized PVC applications. In addition the benefits of our phosphorus based flame retardants Disflamoll® and Reofos® are shown including flame retardant and plasticizing efficiency. Finally our latest developments in Bonding Agents are presented emphasizing their superior performance in coated fabrics.
DR. ANTONIA ALBERS, TECHNICAL SERVICE EMEA
Business Unit: Rhein Chemie
Sustainability is evolving into one of the key topics in the rubber industry. Rhein Chemie is supporting its customers to successfully meet this new challenge with innovative products. These are either based on sustainable raw materials, enhancing sustainability of our customer products, e.g., by improving lifetime or energy consumption, or supporting recycling at the end of product lifetime.
STEFANO BARTOLUCCI, GLOBAL MARKET SEGMENT MANAGER PLASTICS
Business Unit: Inorganic Pigments
Our iron oxides can positively affect the recyling process of plastics. Learn more about our pigment solutions for biodegradable plastics and our unique IR reflective black pigment Bayferrox 303T as a cost-efficient solution for near-infrared (NIR) plastics sorting.
RONALD EMANUEL, SENIOR SCIENTIST
Business Unit: Urethane Systems
In light of new regulation on monomeric diisocyanate content and the European Green Deal the Adhesives industry is facing the challenge to develop sustainable systems that also carry low health and safety risks.
Consumer Protection and Special Treatments
ARUNEE THANASARASAKULPONG, D.V.M., M.S. TECHNICAL MARKETING MANAGER, EMEA, MPP, ACD, DISINFECTION
Business Unit: Material Protection Products
As the world’s population steadily increases and the global standard of living rises, the demand for food production is rapidly increasing too. These dynamics are having a direct effect on agriculture, and especially meat production such as, livestock and poultry farming. Whilst modern livestock and poultry farming techniques are practiced by many worldwide, developing countries, and those with rapidly expanding populations, need to rely on more traditional methods, in order to meet demand.
DR. HEIKO TEBBE, HEAD OF APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY EMEA
DR. PATRICK JACOBS, MANAGER APPLICATION TECHNOLOGY
Business Unit: Polymer Additives
The presentation demonstrates LANXESS commitment towards more sustainable flame retardant solutions focusing on polymeric and reactive flame retardants. The concept of reactive and polymeric flame retardants is explained. The implementation of this concept is shown in two different polymers:
The benefits of new reactive and oligomeric phosphorus based flame retardants in polyurethane foam are presented. Furthermore the performance of polymeric brominated flame retardants in polystyrene foams as well as in engineering plastics is demonstrated.
DR. GUIDO GIFFELS, HEAD OF NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Business Unit: Saltigo
Disruptive changes in the recent years have triggered a worldwide transformation in the chemical industry. M&As of major players, China's "Blue Sky" policy, Covid-19, the EU Green Deal and others have changed the priorities also in outsourcing and supply chain management. Disruptive changes in the recent years have triggered a worldwide transformation in the chemical industry. M&As of major players, China's "Blue Sky" policy, Covid-19, the EU Green Deal and others have changed the priorities also in outsourcing and supply chain management.
DR. NORA HOFMANN, GLOBAL BUSINESS MANAGER SALTIDIN
Business Unit: Saltigo
We are delighted to give an overview about the insect repellent market including current trends for the prevention of infectious diseases transferred by ticks and mosquitoes. Not only the properties of Saltidin® (also known as Picaridin and Icaridin), but also areas of application as well as regulatory requirements are presented. Furthermore, we’ll talk about countries where Saltidin® products are sold and what support we offer our customers for a successful market launch.
NILS KAHMANN, BUSINESS MANAGER FINE CHEMICALS
Business Unit: Saltigo
Saltigo offers a broad variety of fine chemical intermediates. These products form the basis for several pharmaceutical and agricultural products, as well as for specialty chemicals that also play an important role in daily life. We are looking forward to introduce you to our portfolio!
