DKT Report: Lanxess presents extensive rubber expertise

$0ERJ staff report (LMH)$0$0Nuremberg, Germany -- Lanxess will showcase its varied rubber expertise at the DKT 2012 German rubber conference in your Nuremberg, Germany. $0$0The synthetic rubber developer said discussions likely will centre on the current makeup of the Keltan EPDM product line, a new bromobutyl grade, and of course pending developments in the tyre market, which Lanxess believe will lead to increased demand for high-performance tyre rubber products. $0$0 “Rubber is expected to do more and more these days,” said Werner Breuers, member of the board of management of Lanxess, in a 2July news release. “Trends in many industries therefore are heading in a very exciting direction for us, because most of our portfolio comprises those very high-performance rubber products that help our customers maintain their market position and continuously capture new market shares, despite the rising demands imposed on rubber products.” $0$0The company noted that a good example is the automotive industry, whose growing demands on high-end rubber will be outlined at the stand in a large-screen presentation of relevant application examples involving Lanxess special-purpose rubber products. On account of rising temperatures under the hood and increasingly dynamic loads, motor vehicles are generating great demand for high-performance HNBR elastomers from the Therban family that additionally are resistant to oils and other media. $0$0 “The new Lanxess SSBR rubbers may well elicit a lot of interest in Nuremberg, too, because they can help our customers to engineer tyres that save fuel,” Breuers commented. Lanxess of Leverkusen, Germany, is currently working on new, functionalised SSBR grades that bind more efficiently to the important filler silica, thus helping among other things to reduce tyre rolling resistance. $0$0Lanxess is also working on a bromobutyl grade that is tailored more closely to the needs of pharmaceutical packaging manufacturers and can be used in stoppers and plunger seals. The new grade supports the manufacture of cleaner rubber formulations, increases productivity in stopper manufacturing and offers improved physical properties. Customers can expect the first samples of this material to be available in the third quarter of 2012. $0$0 “The DKT once again will show how strongly Lanxess is anchored in the rubber industry as a synthetic rubber pioneer and networked with its protagonists,” Breuers concluded. $0$0$0This is an external link and should open in a new window. If the window does not appear, please check your pop-up blocking software. ERJ is not responsible for the content of external sites.$0$0Press release from Lanxess$0