China today is the world’s largest automotive market. The number of vehicles sold grew in 2010 to more than 17.1 million. However, greater mobility goes hand in hand with increased emissions and higher resource consumption. Luis López-Remón, head of the Lanxess Rubber Chemicals business unit, describes solutions for more eco-friendly mobility.
Lanxess is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubbers from bio-based raw materials.
The global market for synthetic rubber is projected to reach 13.4 million metric tons by the year 2015. Global demand for synthetic rubber is closely linked to the trends in various end-use markets, particularly automotive and tire industries.
For technical requirements in particular, plastics are being used more and more and undergoing constant development in order to satisfy ever-growing demands.
Lanxess is strengthening its commitment to produce premium synthetic rubber from biobased raw materials. As part of this commitment, Lanxess has increased its minority shareholding in Gevo, Inc. that focuses on renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels.
In microcellular polyurethane elastomer systems for outer soles and midsoles alone, renewable raw materials reaches 70%.
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Specialty chemicals group LANXESS AG has developed a series of HNBR rubbers with extremely high acrylonitrile (ACN) content, thus making them suitable for use in vehicles that are run on biofuels.
