LANXESS successfully starts test operation for on-site production of retanning agent

摘要

Since the end of November 2017, specialty chemicals company LANXESS has started the operation of a pilot plant for the in situ production of the retanning agent X-Biomer in practice. In the modular system installed at the HELLER-LEDER tannery in Hehlen, Lower Saxony, the first ton of high-quality liquor X-Biomer was produced under real operation conditions. It was made from two cubic meters of wet white shavings.