LANXESS successfully concludes pilot phase for completely new Butyl rubber production process

摘要

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS has successfully concluded the pilot phase for a highly efficient production process for butyl rubber. In the past seven years, LANXESS worked on a fundamentally new technology for a more sustainable production. An important step in this process was the testing of the new technology in two pilot plants at its production site in Zwijndrecht/Belgium since spring 2012 The production process of butyl rubber is highly complex and requires process steps at very low temperatures and significant usage of steam. The new process technology is significantly more energy and cost efficient.