SCIENCE
LANXESS ‘Floating warehouse’ cuts waiting time in half for high-performance rubber customers
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LANXESS’ Performance Butadiene Rubbers (PBR) Business Unit has established a new Asia Distribution Concept (ADC) known as the ‘floating warehouse’.
Moving away from traditional warehouse storage space on the mainland the ‘floating warehouse’ based in Singapore waters was launched in February 2011 and has already cut the waiting time for Asian customers by half.
Products from Europe, North and South America are shipped directly to the end market or via the ADC in
“This process is rather unique, because in the past, there was first the sale to the customer and then the shipment, but now, we ship and sell while the material is on the water. This concept clearly underlines our commitment to meet our customers’ requirements as quickly as possible,” said Luke Hui, Marketing Director for PBR in Asia-Pacific.
LANXESS is a leading specialty chemicals company with sales of EUR 7.1 billion in 2010 and currently around 15,500 employees in 30 countries. The company is at present represented at 46 production sites worldwide. The core business of LANXESS is the development, manufacturing and marketing of plastics, rubber, intermediates and specialty chemicals.