Environmental protection is a key aspect of innovation at LANXESS. Companies like the specialty chemicals Group from Leverkusen have learned a lot from the critical public debate during the last few years, leading to a significant improvement in environmental standards, the level of safety, and safety concepts in the German chemical industry.

Environmental friendliness is also now playing an ever-greater role in manufacturing processes and the products themselves.Environmental protection at LANXESS ranges from the development of lightweight, high-tech plastics for vehicles to the production of biodiesel additives, and ion exchangers for fuel cells.

With its innovations, LANXESS is showing how people and the environment can equally benefit from the chemical industry – by using peanut shells to generate high-pressure steam, for example, and providing materials that make cars more environmentally friendly. The following sections present interesting examples of such activities.