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€25m at Lillo in 2017, primarily on measures to further enhance efficiency. “Our integrated production
complex in Lillo is the backbone of our global business for high-tech plastics,” said Zachert. “Given the trend toward lightweight construction in the automotive industry, for example, this is a major future market. There- fore we are continuously strengthening the competitive- ness of this site.” The Kallo glass fibre facility
is located just over the River Scheldt from Lillo. During the first year of production in 1976, almost 5,000 tonnes of glass fibre were produced with one furnace. Capacity doubled with a second oven in 1991. The two
glass ovens now operate uninterrupted day and night and currently provide a capacity of 65,000 tpa of chopped glass fibres. At the media day in Lillo, Zobel said there are two parts to Lanxess’s value chain in caprolactam and PA6. The intermediates business is about quality management and about “relentlessly improving your position in terms of costs” compared with costs at competitors. But since 2011, Lanxess has also focused on the second element, which is about adding value through its compounded materials, making best use of its expertise, and providing technical services to support customers. Typically, 60-70% of
occurred as China brought on stream new production, and this “destroyed the caprolac- tam value chain”, said Zobel. Lanxess made a strategic
Lanxess’s Kallo glass fibre facility is located near to the Lillo facility
earnings from Lanxess’s plastics business up to 2010 were from its intermediates – caprolactam and glass fibre. In that year, overcapacity in the global caprolactam market
response with its investment in the PA6 plant in Antwerp, which provided a captive market for its caprolactam output, and by building its compounding network, which has increased earnings in higher-value products. The strategy also involved globalis- ing the business, and the group built new compounding plants located close to customers in Europe, Asia and the Americas. The transformation of Lanxess’s plastics business was under way and by 2016 the balance of its earnings had shifted so that engineering
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