LANXESS

Exit from blue-chip stock index / Rubber woes put downward pressure on share price

LANXESS

Around 1,000 jobs to be shed in corporate realignment up to 2016 / Cuts mostly in rubber / PA and PBT unaffected / Zachert says losses likely in Q4

LANXESS

New CEO Zachert presents first details of new forward strategy / Performance Polymers unit head Breuers to leave the company / Earnings improve in Q2, but “further action” needed

LANXESS

“Strategic partners” sought for accelerated realignment / Too little cost control, too much investment in oversupplied markets, says new CEO / Site closures mulled / Earnings of Performance Polymers rise in Q1

LANXESS

Follow-up: Performance Polymers segment posts significant declines / PA production to commence in Belgium in Q3 / Former CEO Heitmann reportedly unhappy with severance package

PEOPLE

Zachert to take over as Lanxess CEO on 1 April

LANXESS

Impairment charge for Q4 2013 and net loss for full year / Overcapacity for rubber and higher costs

PEOPLE

Lanxess replaces CEO Heitmann with former CFO Zachert / Dark clouds on the financial horizon

LANXESS

Earnings forecast for 2013 narrowed / Q3 EBITDA down 26% / Q3 pricing hit by destocking

LANXESS

Efficiency and restructuring plan for rubber chemicals business / Portfolio to be optimised / Focus on acquisitions and organic growth

EUROPEAN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

Production declines by 2% EU-wide in the first five months of 2013 / Growth engine revving in fits and starts / Company chieftains now more cautious about full-year outlook / Cefic trend report

LANXESS

Poor business in Performance Polymers hits Q2 profit / Lower raw materials costs pressure pricing

LANXESS

Business deteriorates in Q1 / Performance Polymers hardest hit / Comeback in H2?

PEOPLE

Management movement at three Lanxess business areas / Keltan Elastomers gets new head / Singapore new country representative

LANXESS

Operating profit increases by 7% in “best year” of growth / Solid results in Performance Polymers

LANXESS

Earnings on polymers decline in Q3 / Lower end of EBITDA target will be reached, CEO says

PEOPLE

Ming Cheng Chien appointed new CEO of Lanxess Greater China / Martin Kraemer becomes head of new business unit

LANXESS

Acquisition of composite sheet manufacturer Bond-Laminates / Strengthening automotive business

LANXESS

Chemical and plastics producer in blue-chip stock index / Share nearly quadruples in eight years

LANXESS

Best-ever Q2 performance / Heitmann confirms management forecast for full-year 2012

LANXESS

Subsidiary opened in Istanbul / Strong growth forecast in Turkey / Automotive and tire sectors most important

LANXESS

First-quarter 2012 EBITDA up 15% year-on-year / Economic trend more favourable than predicted

LANXESS

Record sales and earnings in 2011 / EBITDA up 25% / Performance Polymers stands out

LANXESS

Performance Polymers is growth driver / Price hikes propel earnings / Highest-ever quarterly result

LANXESS

Performance Polymers business driver in Q2 / Full-year earnings forecast is revised upward