LANXESS Tech Stack
Global specialty chemicals manufacturer with EUR 6.4B revenue across 32 countries
LANXESS manufactures chemical intermediates, additives, and protective materials at scale—11,800 employees across manufacturing, engineering, and operations. The tech stack reveals a traditional industrial-chemistry footprint: Siemens and Emerson process-control systems (PCS 7, DeltaV), SAP for enterprise operations, and analytical instrumentation (HPLC, ICP-OES, LIMS) typical of regulated chemical production. Current hiring skews engineering-heavy (42 roles) with strong manufacturing and ops focus, while pain points cluster around environmental compliance, safety-incident reduction, and production downtime—suggesting active investment in both regulatory infrastructure and operational reliability.
Tech Stack 58 technologies
What LANXESS Is Building
◆Challenges
- Ensuring compliance with environmental regulations
- Continuous safety improvement
- Cost control
- Reducing safety incidents
- Energy efficiency improvement
- Compliance with italian health & safety regulations
- Reducing overdue payments
- Minimizing downtime
- Safety management
- Complex chemical production environment
▲Active Projects
- Iso 45001 management systems implementation
- New business development for product portfolio expansion
- Project commissioning support
- Product portfolio strategy management
- Investment and maintenance projects
- Emergency response planning and drills
- Industrial wastewater pretreatment and stormwater general permits (npdes)
- Laboratory method development
- Turnaround inspection support
- Monitoring outside counsel performance, invoices, and expenses
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Head of Maintenance, Head of Supply Chain & Business Process, Site Director
