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Materials

Lanxess revamps water treatment unit

by Michael McCoy
July 18, 2020 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 98, Issue 28

 

To sharpen its focus on specialty chemicals, Lanxess will sell its reverse osmosis membrane business to the French firm Suez and invest in its ion-exchange resin business. Suez will get a Lanxess plant in Bitterfeld, Germany, that makes membranes to treat brackish water and seawater. Lanxess plans to spend up to $135 million to build a fourth ion-exchange resin facility within the next 5 years. The firm says the resins are used to upgrade water for applications like drug and semiconductor production.

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