Polymer Additives

With brominated and phosphorus-based solutions, LANXESS offers one of the most comprehensive ranges of organic flame retardants in the world. Our newly developed polymeric and reactive flame retardants can reduce the release of additives from the polymers, thus contributing to environmental and health protection without compromising fire safety.

Due to their high efficiency brominated flame retardants are frequently used in the construction and electronics industries.

In addition to highly efficient fire protection, phosphorus-based flame retardants offer further advantages such as good processability and high elasticity in PU and PVC systems.
These additives are used in the manufacture of flame-retardant articles, including insulation, cables, printed circuit boards, foils, tarpaulins, floor coverings, seat covers, and fire protection applications.

Products: Emerald Innovation™, Firemaster®, Levagard®, Disflamoll®, Reofos® 

Plasticizers ensure elasticity and flexibility of polymer materials. But this is not their only benefit. Plasticizers also optimize, for example, the processing properties of polymer materials, which leads to improved product quality or even new properties. The choice of plasticizers depends on the demand placed on the finished product. These can include greater softness, elasticity, adhesion, flame retardant properties or resistance to chemicals, weathering and migration.

Products: Adimoll®, Baymod®, Kalama® Vitroflex®, K-FLEX®*, Mesamoll®, Modulast®, Triacetin, Ultramoll®, Unimoll®, Uniplex

*K-FLEX® is a registered trademark of Emerald Kalama Chemical for its line of Non-phtalate Plasticizers and Coalescents. K-FLEX® is also a registered trademark of King Industries, Inc. for its line of Polyester and Urethane Polyols and Resin Modifiers.

The color is always in focus at Colorant Additives – whether in paints for indoor and outdoor use, electrical and household appliance housing, PET bottles, cosmetic containers, or inkjet printing inks. Due to their excellent technical properties, the products are used in the most sensitive applications.

Outstanding product quality, long-standing technical expertise and the fulfillment of wide-ranging regulatory requirements are the critical qualification standards of the Colorant Additives product range. Customers all over the world use the high-quality colorants in a multitude of applications, from LCD displays to stationery inks.

Products: Bayfast®, Bayplast®, Bayscript®, Ceres®, Levanox®, Levanyl®, Levascreen®, Macrolex®, Solfort^®

Polymers that are produced by polycondensation generally display a weakness when attacked by water or moisture. Our Stabaxol® hydrolysis stabilizers are suited to improve the hydrolysis resistance of polycondensates such as PET, PBT, PU, TPU and PA to expand their range of applications.

Product: Stabaxol®

Products: Bayhibit®, Baypure®, Epiphos®, Mersolat®

Bromine, bromine derivatives and phosphorus specialties serve as building blocks for developing and engineering highly complex organic molecules.
Bromine, brominated intermediates and phosphorus chemicals are utilized in many applications including flame retardants, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, high performance rubber, polymers and biocides.

Products: Baysolvex®, Tri- and Dibutyl phosphates, phosphorus chlorides, phosphites, phosphorus oxides and polyphosphoric acids, Bromine, hydrobromic acid, alkyl bromides, Terr-O-Gas®, Meth-O-Gas®, bromine salts and brines thereof, Geobrom® 

Cast Nylon is a high-performance engineering thermoplastic. The finished product is an extremely high-molecular weight and high-crystalline polyamide used in a multitude of products, such as plates, rods, tubes, drive wheels, pulleys, gearwheels, bearings and tank construction.

Cast Nylon is produced by anionic polymerization of caprolactam, enabled through the addition of Addonyl® activators, catalysts and modifiers.

Products: Addonyl®