The chemical industry, a cornerstone of Germany's economy, presents exciting opportunities for new applicants, especially in light of demographic changes. By attracting and nurturing skilled workers, Germany can strengthen its position as a leading hub for chemical innovation. Emphasizing the potential for growth and development, we can ensure that German chemical companies continue to excel in global competition.

As a specialty chemicals company, we need well- educated employees to safeguard growth and added value. For this reason we aim to establish relations with pupils and spark the fascination of natural science and technology at an early age, inspiring them to pursue a career at LANXESS.

We support talented young scientists at schools and institutes of higher education and provide funds to improve scientific facilities. In volunteering projects, our employees share their job experience and practical expertise during activities with educational institutions.

The demand for clean water is rising dramatically in the face of a growing worldwide population and increasing globalization. Already today, this valuable resource is scarce in many countries around the world and access to clean water is increasingly becoming a problem.

Our products are used to conserve, transport, clean and save water around the world. Our specific expertise helps both industry and people directly. We create awareness for our competencies, expertise and solutions.

Through local projects, we help to safeguard the supply of clean drinking water to the population and sustainably improve their quality of life. Additionally, we are encouraging young people to adopt a more responsible approach in order to use this valuable resource efficiently.

Research on future scenarios predict climate change will have a dramatic effect on our ecosystems. Climate protection is a long-term challenge and one of importance for the future of our society.

We aim to promote the necessity of climate protection also with our global Corporate Citizenship activities. Thereby, we want to establish platforms for innovation that positively reflect back on our business as well as improve the quality of life and diminishes the risk for climate-related natural disasters for people in our communities.

Climate protection starts by being aware of the challenge – our aim is to foster a climate-conscious behavior in our business but also in the communities in which we operate. With competitions and also concrete community action we build knowledge and awareness as well as encourage and enable people to become active.

Society without the collective resources of our libraries, museums, theatres and galleries, or without the per-sonal expression of literature, music and art, would be static and sterile. Culture has positive impacts on social wellbeing and cohesion, our physical and mental health as well as education and innovation.

With our commitment to culture, we strengthen partnership and interaction with the business community and local communities around our sites by supporting local cultural projects.