June 9, 2010

Premium products for water treatment - BU ION at the Aquatech Trade Fair 2010

LANXESS showcased its Premium Solutions at Aquatech China International Trade Fair

 

LANXESS showcased its high-performance Lewatit® ion exchange resins at the Aquatech China international trade fair, which took place in Shanghai, China, from June 2 to 6, 2010. The focus was on holistic solutions for the fields of industrial water treatment, food, catalysis and chemicals processing. For these sectors, the Ion Exchange Resins business unit, one of the leading manufacturers of ion exchangers, offers its premium products from the Lewatit® range, which play a key role, for example, in the treatment of drinking water and the production of ultra-pure water.

 

Monodisperse resins for industrial water treatment, such as the new grade Lewatit® S 1667, are pivotal to LANXESS’s trade fair presentation this year. This highly acidic cationic exchange resin has been developed specifically as a top-of-the-range softening solution for process and drinking water. Other monodisperse resins being showcased at Aquatech China include the gel cationic exchange resin Lewatit® Monoplus S 108 and the plastic-based hybrid adsorber Lewatit® FO 36 and. This product is able to selectively remove arsenic from drinking water. Removing traces of toxic substances – especially arsenic – is becoming increasingly important in the production of drinking water.

 

At the congress took place in parallel to the Aquatech fair, Bjoern Dinges, Manager Technical Marketing Industrial Water Treatment in the Ion Exchange Resins business unit, gave two presentations on June 3. “Lewatit® Calculation and Design Software and the new product range for industrial water treatment” gave insight in the new version Lewatit® CalculatION 5.0 that makes designing a treatment unit even simpler. The program accelerates project costing and can even help existing plants cut their operating costs. The multilingual software offers further new functions and is available from LANXESS free of charge. In the second presentation, Dinges explored the most important applications for ion exchange and adsorber resins in the field of “Chemical processes and waste water treatment”.

 

“Usable water supplies are dwindling worldwide, thus becoming an increasingly valuable resource,” says Wolfgang Heuchel, Vice President of the LANXESS Ion Exchange Resins business unit for Asia Pacific. “Our high-tech products which help to reduce contamination in water supply and wastewater disposal are becoming increasingly indispensable all over the world.”

 

“As developers of high-performance, efficient ion exchange resins, and as the source of innovative application concepts for opening up new dimensions in performance, we can make a significant contribution by supporting the industry with our know-how and advice,” adds Michael Zobel, head of the Ion Exchange Resins business unit. More than 20 percent of sales are generated by products that have been on the market for less than three years.

 

“LANXESS is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of ion exchange resins, adsorbers and functional polymers. We already have a strong market position and we want to build on this success,” states Zobel. “A pioneering move made by LANXESS to invest EUR 30 million in membrane filtration technology at the Bitterfeld site means that, based on the current schedule, we will be in a position to offer additional water treatment products by 2011, thus expanding our market position.” What’s more, LANXESS is currently investing some EUR 50 million in a new plant for the manufacture of ion exchange resins and rubber chemicals in the Indian state of Gujarat. The company is presently on schedule to take its new site in Jhagadia into operation in the fourth quarter of 2010. The two plants will have a combined workforce of 250 employees. The new ion exchange resin plant will manufacture powerful Lewatit products that will feature in more than 600 applications worldwide.