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Lanxess staff rewarded for improvement ideas

26/02/2007
 
Over the past year, German chemicals group Lanxess has paid out approximately €900,000 in bonuses to reward employees for their improvement suggestions. In total, 2,256 suggestions were submitted by the workforce to the company’s ‘ideas office’, 1,367 of which were rewarded with a bonus. The submissions largely concentrated on improving procedures and processes, increasing occupational safety and promoting environmental protection.

As a result of employees’ suggestions, the company was able to
save around €3.3 million in 2006.

All employees in Germany are able to submit ideas via the intranet and bonuses are allocated depending on the level of benefit provided by the suggested change. The highest individual bonus was awarded to an employee at the Leverkusen site of the company’s subsidiary, Saltigo, who received approximately €23,000 for his suggestion for increasing efficiency in a plant producing oryzalin, an active ingredient for crop protection products. As a result of this optimisation, the capacity of the plant was increased by 12%.



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