LANXESS at EAW2011

According to Prakash Shanmugam, head of Marketing & Sales for the Indian subcontinent in the Ion Exchange Resins business unit, the focus of LANXESS' exhibition will be on Lewatit adsorbers and functional polymers, on the gel-type cation exchange resins Lewatit MonoPlus S 108 and Lewatit MonoPlus S 108 H. These are used primarily in industrial water treatment, for example to demineralise water for the industrial steam generation.

At the congress taking place in parallel to the EAW fair, Kedar Oke, senior manager Technical Marketing in the Ion Exchange Resins business unit, and his colleague Dr. Mandar Maduskar will give two presentations on applications of ion exchange and absorber resins in potable water and wastewater treatment. "Alongside industrial water treatment for the semiconductor and pharmaceutical industries and for the food and energy sectors, this is another attractive field for our products," remarked Oke.

Demand for clean water worldwide will increase by around a third by 2030. This growth in the water requirement will be particularly pronounced in Asia, especially India, because of the spiraling population and universal urbanization. LANXESS therefore sees Asia as one of the most important growth markets for products for water treatment and has built one of Asia's most state-of-the-art ion exchange production facilities in India. The recently inaugurated plant in the Jhagadia Chemical Park in the Indian state of Gujarat has an annual capacity of 35,000 metric tons.