Dr. Hermann Sicius with trainees in the training laboratory in Leverkusen

Vocational Training

Training young people has always been hugely important to us, both in order to safeguard the company’s future and as part of our social responsibility. Vocational training is the basis of our strategy of developing specialist staff for the German sites from within our own ranks.

It is our aim to retain at least 80% of our apprentices after successful completion of their training.

Training will remain a key pillar of our HR policy in the years ahead. We are importantly demonstrating this with new, modern offerings.

For example, we initiated various special campaigns to recruit apprentices. Candidates were able to sample working in LANXESS workshops at the “Technik Check” event and then complete the hiring process within a day.

For the first time in a pilot project in 2022, two apprentices were hired as part-time industrial management assistants. This offering is aimed at people who cannot take on a full – time apprenticeship – e.g. because they have children or act as a relative’s career. The apprenticeship can be completed at a reduced 30 hours a week, without the duration of the apprenticeship increasing.

GLOBAL APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS

Outside Germany, we offer apprenticeship programs in

several European countries,
as well as Canada,
Brazil and
India, for example,

in order to cover our requirement for young talent in those countries.

In addition to our regular apprenticeship activities, we cooperated with the Iochpe Foundation in Brazil for the second time. Through this cooperation, we again enabled ten young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to take part in a nine-month training course at our production site in Porto Feliz.

In India, the government supports an apprenticeship program to give more young people the opportunity to acquire qualifications required to work in the chemical industry.