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| Synthetic rubber major Lanxess is adding a range of fluoroelastomers to
its portfolio through a distribution agreement with Russian
manufacturer Halopolymer OJSC (Open Joint Stock Company).
The company will offer the products under the Levatherm A brand and has
put a team of experts specialising in market and technical service in
place, it says.
Halopolymer will continue to service the Russian market as it has up to now.
The Russsian company claims a near 10% share of the global
fluoropolymer market of which it is the country"s leading supplier of
Freon and fluoropolymers. "We produce about 13,000 metric tonnes of
PTFE per year," said ceo Maxim Doroshkevich. "It is a global strategy
of Halopolymer to diversify our fluoropolymers business from the
production of PTFE as a commodity to specialised products – melt
processable fluoropolymer and fluorinated rubbers – to gain about 10%
of the global market.
| "The cooperation with Lanxess is of great benefit to our company helping us to promote our new products on the market and providing us with a very good partner in the field of technical rubbers."
At Lanxess, technical rubber products chief Guenther Weymans added: "This product is a perfect addition to our range of high performance rubbers and ensures that Lanxess has exactly the right elastomers in its portfolio for an even wider range of highly specialised applications."
Lanxess puts world consumption of fluoroelastomers at more than 20,000 tonnes a year
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