Lanxess
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Lanxess AG is a German specialty chemicals company based in Cologne, Germany. It was founded in 2004 after Bayer AG spun off its chemicals division and parts of its polymers business.
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Lanxess is a German company established in 2004 and based in Cologne. It operates as a specialty chemicals firm and is recognized in the Dax collection. The organization functions as both a company and a funder.
The entity maintains an active status and employs 13200 people. Its fiscal year ends on December 31. Lanxess is listed on the OTC exchange under the tickers LNXSY and LNXSF. The latest filing form was F-6EF, submitted on June 10, 2025.
Synthesized by Vinony from 22 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Lanxess AG
- Company.logo
- LanXess-Logo.svg
- Company.type
- Aktiengesellschaft (Public)
- Company.predecessor
- Bayer Chemicals
- Company.location_city
- Cologne
- Company.location_country
- Germany
- Company.industry
- Chemicals
- Company.products
- polymers, intermediates and Specialty chemicals
- Company.revenue
- €7.2B (2018)
- Company.operating_income
- €464 million (2016)
- Company.net_income
- €192 million (2016)
- Company.num_employees
- 14,000
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
LNXSY, LNXSF- Exchange
- OTC, OTC
- State of incorporation
- 2M
- Entity type
- other
- Latest filing
- F-6EF · 2025-06-10
via SEC EDGAR
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 2004
- Location
- Cologne, Germany
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.480252.9 · ISNI 0000 0004 0451 7859
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Cologne
- Industry
- chemical industry
- Employees
- 13200
- Revenue
- 6400000000
- Stock exchange
- OTC Markets Group
- Legal form
- Aktiengesellschaft
- Follows
- Bayer
- Official website
- www.lanxess.com
- Image
- MaxCologne 2013-05-27.JPG
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- Commons category
- Lanxess
- inception
- 2004-07-01
- social media followers
- 16782
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- History
- Notes
- External links
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