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 Southeast 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 to manage businesses in the surrounding ASEAN countries. 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. The Singapore office also houses a microbiology testing laboratory belonging to the Material Protection Products business unit.

LANXESS also moved the global headquarters for the Butyl Rubber business unit from Fribourg, Switzerland, to Singapore in 2010 to better serve the growing demand in the Asia-Pacific Region.

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).

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 started a three-year collaboration with the Singapore National Youth Orchestra. The Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) program has since sent youths to Italy for a mentorship program in 2011 and has hosted French horn virtuoso Stewart Rose in 2010, and acclaimed violinist Lara St. John in 2011.