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Lanxess Expanding Specialty Rubber

by Alexander H. Tullo
April 18, 2011 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 89, Issue 16

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A toothed motorcycle belt made with hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber.
Credit: Lanxess
A toothed motorcycle belt made with hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber.

Lanxess is boosting capacity for its Therban hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber by 40% at plants in Orange, Texas, and Leverkusen, Germany. The company has already begun work and expects to have the capacity on-line by the end of 2012. Lanxess says the investment will be in the “low single-digit euro amount” and add about 15 new jobs. Therban rubber resists degradation by fuels and ozone.

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