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Sustainability award for Lanxess ‘Green Leather’ concept

02/10/2014

Specialty chemicals group Lanxess has been selected as one of the top Nordic innovators for its Green Leather Crust concept at an awards ceremony in Malmö, Sweden.

The Launch Nordic Forum’s objective is to identify sustainable innovations in materials, and judges received 80 applications from around the world.
 
LANXESS’ concept impressed the judges by showing how the use of advanced chemistry solutions can provide improvements. It included its X-Zyme beamhouse technology, the wet white tanning system X-Tan as well as the recently launched X-Biomer biopolymers for retanning.

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