January - The world’s leading synthetic rubber company LANXESS has brought forward its plans to build a new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. The company will hold a groundbreaking ceremony in May 2010, and production is expected to start in the first quarter of 2013. The 100,000 tons per annum plant on Jurong Island will require an investment of up to EUR 400 million (575 million USD).   more

February - LANXESS has completed the first phase of construction of its new site in Jhagadia, Gujarat state, India. The production of the rubber chemicals plant was started up, as planned, after being relocated from Thane, Maharashtra state. It will supply the global rubber and mineral oil additive market as well as the rapidly growing Indian tire and rubber industry with high-quality antioxidants belonging to LANXESS’ Vulkanox® brand.   more

March - LANXESS Singapore shifts its office to a new location in the International Business Park in Singapore. Besides the staff that move here from the former office in Benoi sector, the global headquarters of the Butyl Rubber business also moves here. LANXESS manages the Southeast Asian business of its 13 business units from here. It also hosts a microbiology testing laboratory belonging to the Material Protection Products business unit.

April - LANXESS will expand capacities at its state-of-the-art compounding plant for high-tech plastics in Wuxi, China. The German specialty chemicals company will invest in a third production line at the plant, which will increase compounding capacities by nearly 50 percent and is scheduled to go on stream mid-2011. After the expansion, the plant will have a capacity of approximately 60,000 metric tons per year. more

May - LANXESS and Taiwan’s TSRC Corporation will enter into a 50:50 joint venture in Greater China called LANXESS-TSRC (Nantong) Chemical Industrial Company Ltd. The two companies are jointly investing 50 million USD (approx. EUR 36 million) in a new plant that will produce Nitrile Rubber (NBR) in Nantong, northwest of Shanghai. more

May - LANXESS announced the launch of LANXESS SNYO Classic, a three-year mentorship and cultural exchange program developed with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. The program is specially designed to enable young classical musicians to learn from a variety of world class artists skilled in different instruments. more

May - LANXESS, the world's biggest manufacturer of synthetic rubber, ibreaks ground for the construction of a new butyl rubber plant in Singapore. The facility on Jurong Island is designed for a capacity of 100,000 metric tons per year and will require an investment of up to EUR 400 million (USD 575 million). Between 10 and 15 percent of the total investment for the plant, the most modern of its kind in Asia, will go into environmental protection measures. more