LANXESS Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) serves as an important business and technical services hub for our operations throughout Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific.

Out of Singapore, LANXESS manages its businesses in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Philippines and other South-east Asian countries.  All our 13 business units are actively engaging with customers in the Southeast Asia region.  The geographical location of Singapore makes it an ideal place from which to manage business in the surrounding countries of ASEAN.  Good infrastructure, including IT connectivity and shipping and logistics and transport services means high efficiency levels for conducting business.

To participate in the growing market of Vietnam, LANXESS has a representative office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

LANXESS Singapore consists of regional marketing and sales functions for most Business Units in the Asia-Pacific region. LANXESS also operates a microbiology lab for material protection in Singapore.

On July 1, 2008, the Leather business unit of LANXESS transferred its regional marketing headquarters in Asia from Hong Kong to Singapore, from where key logistics processes for the Chinese market are handled.  Singapore is already the largest and most efficient distribution hub for LANXESS’s leather chemicals business in Asia, and in future it will be our most important sales location worldwide.

LANXESS has become the Exclusive Official Sponsor of the Singapore Chemistry Olympiad (SChO) for 2008 and 2009, organized by the Chemistry Department of the National University of Singapore.

In 2010 LANXESS Singapore shifted its office from Benoi Sector to the International Business Park in Singapore. The global headquarters of the Butyl Rubber business unit also moved here from Switzerland.

LANXESS is building a new butyl rubber facility in Singapore. The company held the 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).

In 2010 LANXESS started a collaboration with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. The Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) organized the largest classical music mentorship programme for youths in Singapore from November 24 to 29 2010.

Under the invitation of German specialty chemicals company LANXESS, French horn virtuoso Stewart Rose conducted a lecture demonstration and held a series of master classes. Significantly, this was the first time the SNYO  offered its mentorship programme to all members of its orchestra and all students from local mainstream secondary schools and junior colleges.