Lanxess centre has Innovation & Technology

For approximately 10 years now, LANXESS has been offering the services of its Polymer Testing Centre to external customers, too. LANXESS is now attaching increased importance to polymer analysis by integrating the centre, which was previously part of the High Performance Elastomers business unit, into its Innovation & Technology group function. This powerful organisational unit coordinates all of the LANXESS group’s research and development activities. The Leverkusen-based rubber experts there can offer more than the standard measuring of abrasion resistance, shore hardness, viscosity, tensile strength and fabric bonding. They also have sophisticated physical methods for assessing the molecular microstructure of the vulcanisates, which can provide crucial information for optimising products.

The Polymer Testing Centre is based in building K10 of the Chempark Leverkusen site – a building steeped in tradition. Its customers primarily include SMEs in the rubber industry that commission Professor Wrana’s team with manufacturing and examining material samples for them. The equipment in his laboratory is certainly extensive. It comprises a series of mixers for manufacturing test mixtures on a laboratory (85 ml) to technical (90 l) scale and moulds and extruders for the compression moulding of specimens. www.lanxess.com