Company Category: Alcohols

LANXESS is a global leader in high-purity, sustainable ingredients for home care and personal care brands, offering a comprehensive range of solutions including preservatives, antimicrobials, aroma ingredients, and multifunctionals that protect, perform, and delight the senses. As a German-based specialty chemicals company, LANXESS provides a broad portfolio of cosmetic ingredients for various applications. Our offerings include safe and effective preservation solutions for both leave-on and rinse-off formulations across a wide pH range. Renowned for our expertise in benzoates and phenoxyethanol, we are one of the world’s leading suppliers in this field. Customers worldwide trust our ingredients for their superior purity, safety, and reliability—manufactured to the highest industry standards at our global production sites across all continents, ensuring reliable product availability. Our supply chain is designed to serve your orders quickly and efficiently, improving sourcing stability with domestically manufactured preservatives where needed. We proudly produce the market’s highest-purity benzoates using a chlorine-free process and offer renewable versions of most of our portfolio under our sustainability brand “Scopeblue®.” These products are based on mass balance sustainable raw materials and green energy, helping manufacturers meet their sustainability goals with a lower carbon footprint. In addition, our customers benefit from broad technical, microbiology, and regulatory know-how, supported by a global network of excellently equipped R&D facilities dedicated to innovation and excellence. At LANXESS, we help protect what you love — supporting your formulations and consumers through tailored, high-performance solutions backed by regulatory expertise. | LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 6.4 billion in 2024. The company currently has about 11,900 employees in 32 countries. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of chemical intermediates, additives and consumer protection products. LANXESS has achieved leading positions in the Dow Jones Best-in-Class Index and the MSCI ESG and ISS ESG ratings, among others, for its commitment to sustainability. Our Polymer Additives business unit pioneers the production of bromine, bromine derivatives, and phosphorus chemicals—the essential building blocks behind countless advanced materials. Our chemistry drives innovation across diverse sectors, powering everything from flame retardants and oil extraction to agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and high-performance fine chemicals. You’ll also find our solutions in butyl rubber, specialty polymers, biocides, paints and coatings, and even in vibrant colorants for plastics and inkjet printing inks. Beyond our core offerings, we provide an extensive portfolio of polymer additives, including state-of-the-art plasticizers, hydrolysis stabilizers, and advanced solutions for water treatment—enabling our customers to push the boundaries of performance, safety, and sustainability. | LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company offering a comprehensive portfolio of innovative materials and advanced technologies for lithium-ion batteries and electric vehicles. The company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of synthetic iron oxides and is currently building up its own production capacities for iron phosphate grades – both serving as precursor for low-cost and sustainable cathode active material lithium iron phosphate (LFP). In the U.S., the Group cooperates on lithium extraction from brine for battery-grade lithium carbonate with low environmental footprint. In addition, LANXESS provides key raw materials for lithium salts (LiPF₆, LiFSI), including phosphorus chemicals, hydrogen fluoride, thionyl chloride, and fluorosulfonic acid. The portfolio also includes dyes for high-voltage plastic applications, flame retardants, and non-flammable electrolytes to ensure additional safety inside and outside the battery cells. LANXESS also supports battery recycling with process chemicals for hydrometallurgical metal recovery, including ion-exchange resins, selective extractants and leaching agents. | LANXESS inorganic pigments are high-quality color pigments used by customers worldwide in a range of applications, in concrete, on roofs, facades, mortar and paving stones. www.bayferrox.us