Growing Demand for XNBR


Leverkusen - LANXESS's Technical Rubber Products (TRP) business unit is
going to slightly expand production of XNBR
(Carboxylated-Nitrile-Butadiene-Rubber) in La Wantzenau, France. Through
this the chemical company wants to serve the growing demand for XNBR. "The
changes will be implemented very shortly, due to the flexibility of the
plant and the NBR portfolio itself," says LANXESS Product Manager Olaf
Isenberg-Schulz. "In this process we will take advantage of the different
production lines in La Wantzenau as well as of production at our Canadian
site in Sarnia. This flexibility allows an ideal utilization of our
capacities and enables capacity increases without affecting the reliability
of supply to our customers."

The Technical Rubber Products business unit belongs to the Performance
Rubber segment, which achieved total sales in 2006 of EUR 1,776 million.

LANXESS is one of the leading European chemicals suppliers, with 2006 sales
of EUR 6.94 billion and approximately 16,500 employees in 18 countries. The
company is represented at around 50 sites worldwide. The core business of
LANXESS is the development, manufacture and sale of chemicals, rubber and
plastics.

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