Lanxess

More than 13 million tons of color pigments from Krefeld for 90 years

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The Krefeld-Uerdingen Chempark is an important site for Lanxess and headquarter of the Inorganic Pigments business unit

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Jörg Hellwig, Head of the Inorganic Pigment business unit (center), launched together with Krefeld’s Mayor Frank Meyer (right) and Deputy Mayor Gregor Micus the online application portal for the new “Besser Lernen” (learn better) initiative with a symbolic push of a button

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Dr. Wolfgang Oehlert, Vice President Technical Operations BU Inorganic Pigments (right), invited the anniversary guests to a guided tour through the production plant in Uerdingen

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Oliver Fleschenträger, Head of Global Competence Center Construction, presented the plant’s internal laboratory

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The specialty chemicals company Lanxess is producing iron oxide and chrome oxide pigments for numerous applications in the world’s largest production plant for inorganic color pigments in Krefeld-Uerdingen – and has been doing so for 90 years now. Whether used in the paint coat on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the red asphalt in front of Buckingham Palace in London or numerous products we encounter in our day-to-day lives – pigments from Lanxess are used all around the world. What started on a small scale 90 years ago has turned into a genuine success story: Since the launch in 1926, more than 13...