Lanxess will base rubber strategy on technology.(News)

From: European Rubber Journal | Date: December 1, 2004 | Copyright information

Byline: David Shaw, Liz White

Lanxess believes it is not too early-nor too late-to begin a new strategy of adding value to the products it sells to its customers. Although the company is in a period of purdah in the weeks leading up to its stock market flotation, the company let slip a few details of what it proposes to do for the future.

Bayer stockholders approved the Lanxess spin-off at an Extraordinary Stockholders' Meeting, 17 Nov in Essen. Lanxess, currently operating as a Bayer subgroup, can now be placed on the stock market as an independent company, with Lanxess ...

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