LANXESS, Energizing ChemistryLANXESS is a specialty chemicals enterprise at the core of the chemical industry that focuses on premium businesses. To this end LANXESS employs an expert workforce with a multitude of different skills ? worldwide. The LANXESS corporate philosophy is applied to our products as well as to the people as the driving force of the company. Their objectives and goals are anchored in the company's name, LANXESS, a compound of the French word "lancer" meaning "to get something going" and the English word "success" ? indicating our determination and our commitment to success and continuous renewal. In Favor of New ChemistryOur wide range of products and services is focused on polymers, intermediate products and specialty chemicals. In these central fields of industrial chemistry we deploy our specific core competences of chemical expertise, application know-how, flexible asset management and close co-operation with our customers. We invest all our skills, our creativity and our commitment to generate added value for our customers through innovative ideas, processes and products ? dynamically focusing on our objectives and looking to the future ? day after day and with all our might: Energizing Chemistry. LANXESS.