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Also known as Lanxess AG, Lanxess Aktiengesellschaft

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

Official website

Link to the official site · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Instance of
public company
Country
Germany
Headquarters
Cologne
Employees
13200
Revenue
6400000000
Stock exchange
OTC Markets Group
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)

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Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Notes
  • External links

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