Lanxess has recently completed a three-year investment programme totalling over €20 million aimed at expanding the company’s aromatics network. The comprehensive modernisation project focused mainly on facilities that manufacture nitrotoluenes, chlorobenzenes, and their downstream products.
Joachim Waldi, head of the Lanxess Production, Technology, Safety & Environment group function, explained: “Since 2013, we have modernised several production plants in the aromatics network operated by the Advanced Industrial Intermediates (AII) business unit at our German locations. Thanks above all to the introduction of state-of-the-art automation systems, we also tapped into considerable capacity reserves, for example for nitrotoluene derivatives. At the same time the safety equipment was updated and significantly improved once again.”
