Lanxess brings in Hüni to work on ReeL project
Upscaling to produce the container sized modules, process control specialists Hüni will partner Lanxess on the initial customer projects and focus on plant engineering and construction of the modules.
The X-Biomer INSITU technology was developed by the Lanxess's leather business unit in partnership with the German companies Invite and Heller-Leder, where recycled shavings from the leather manufacturing process are used to produce the X-Biomer retanning agents on site. To date, six X-Biomer product types have been developed and a range of other applications are in the research pipeline.
Dr Dietrich Tegtmeyer, head of the ReeL project at Lanxess, said: “These plants dramatically improve the sustainability profile. On the one hand, in-situ and just-in-time production helps to save a great amount of logistics and packaging resources; on the other hand, we no longer have to dispose of shavings as waste products because we can now use them as a raw material for the required retanning chemicals.”
X-Biomer is a fundamental element of Lanxess’s Sustainable Leather Management programme.
Dr Thomas Brackemeyer, head of the Organic Leather Chemicals business line at Lanxess, added: “Leather is already a climate-neutral product. X-Biomer products help to increase the climate-neutrality of leathers even further so that one day we might be able to get close to 100%. The partnership with Hüni , one of the most renowned plant and automation technology providers in the leather industry, will help us to achieve this goal even more quickly.”
