Lanxess expands Indian tech centre

ERJ staff report (DS)

Mumbai. India -- Lanxess India Pvt

Limited is relocating and expanding its Rubber Chemicals (RUC) Asia

Pacific Technical Centre within the city of Thane. The Technical Centre

is being relocated to Wagle Industrial Estate, Thane from Kolshet Road,

Thane. The centre, which will be fully operational this month, will be

headed by Kishor Katkar, Head of Technical Services for Business Unit

Rubber Chemicals.

The new tech centre will have additional

facilities to help in commercialization and customer approval of

products produced at the new production plant being built at Jhagadia.

It will conduct product testing as well as training for rubber industry

personnel. It will also support the specific needs of customers, such

as in developing new products and new applications using rubber

chemicals specialty products from Lanxess.

During the centre's

inauguration, Luis Lopez-Remon, Global Head, Rubber Chemicals business

unit, said, “The new Technical Centre will positively support Lanxess'

initiative to develop new processes and formulations for the rubber

industry that are cost effective and performance driven. It therefore

complements and enhances the company's global R&D capabilities to

create and develop new innovative technologies."

Lanxess said

it is on track to start up its new Jhagadia site, Gujarat state, in

2010. With an investment of around euro 50 million, the site will have

a new ion exchange resins plant and a rubber chemicals plant, which is

being relocated from Thane, Maharashtra state. The plants will employ

230 workers in total.

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Press release from Lanxess