At LANXESS, our targeted innovation efforts are focused on meeting specific and concrete customer needs. Thanks to a highly effective innovation network that combines global reach with local expertise, roughly 80 percent of all projects in our R&D pipeline are ready for launch within two years or less.

LANXESS’ market-oriented approach to research and development enables us to maximize added value while minimizing cost and time to market.

“Our innovative culture, based on trust and entrepreneurial freedom, helps us go the extra mile for product, process and outside-of-the-box innovations,” states Board Member Werner Breuers. “Thus LANXESS brings customers expertise, creativity, application know-how, flexibility, proximity, and a deep knowledge of applications.”

The LANXESS culture of innovation includes:

• strong senior management support;
• close cooperation between our R&D teams and our 13 Business Units, in proximity to our customers;
• an extensive, global innovation network;
• innovation processes and proactive project management that emphasize new ideas.
  
  In 2009 the new group function “Innovation&Technology” was established within the Group to drive innovative processes and to bundle the research and development activities of LANXESS. The establishment of this new group function has given a boost to the innovative culture within the Group.

Innovation Day: Active, innovative, creative

The great inventor Thomas Alva Edison once said: “Innovation is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration!”. We at LANXESS are well aware of that.

Innovation Day is considered one of the key pillars to secure the future of LANXESS. “Innovation Day clearly shows the great importance of research and development at LANXESS. This importance is only going to increase over the coming years. Innovation is what drives our business”, says Breuers.

Tomorrow’s Innovations

That is why we invest generously in research development in all areas of our company.  Our more than 140 years of experience which include many groundbreaking inventions have taught us the value of investing in the future.