Lanxess to Relocate Rubber R&D Facility

Lanxess Inc. announced on May 9 it has entered into a multi-year tenancy agreement with the University of Western Ontario (U.W.O.) Research Park in London, Ontario (Canada), which will become the new home for the Lanxess Butyl Rubber Business Unit polymer research group. Presently operating out of the company’s Sarnia site, the new facility will have global responsibility for the research and development of butyl and butyl-like elastomers. Three global rubber manufacturing sites – Belgium, Canada and Singapore – will be supported from this new facility. It is expected that relocation to the Ontario site will be completed by the end of 2009.