Leather lags, but ‘stable’ Lanxess H1 results please the board

02/08/2019
Leather chemicals manufacturer Lanxess has reported revenues of €3.6 billion for the first six months of 2019, which is flat with the figure for the same months last year. Its net income on this figure was up by 3.2% year on year at €184 million.

Specific to the leather part of its business, Lanxess its chrome ore business had been weak and that leather had been the one segment in its performance chemicals business unit (which also includes products for water treatment and material protection) that had failed to contribute to an improvement in earnings.

Chairman of the company’s management board, Matthias Zachert, said on releasing the figures that, overall, the results were good. He said Lanxess was in a stable position and that this stability was paying off, “especially in these economically uncertain times”.