# LANXESS expands benzyl alcohol capacity at Krefeld-Uerdingen by 30%

LANXESS is expanding production capacity for benzyl alcohol at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site in Germany by around 30%, with completion scheduled by end of 2019. A low double-digit million euro sum will be spent. Additional debottlenecking measures are planned at its Nagda site in India.

- Type: Expansion
- Announced: 2019-03-18
- Where: Krefeld-Uerdingen, Germany
- Value: $22.6M (20.0M EUR)
- Starts operating: 2019
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 30% increase in benzyl alcohol capacity
- Products: benzyl alcohol
- Sectors: [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [LANXESS](https://endata.com/companies/15514.md)

## Sources

- [lanxess.com](https://lanxess.com/en/media/press-releases/2020/10/lanxess-significantly-expands-benzyl-alcohol-capacity), 2019-03-18: "Specialty chemicals company LANXESS is expanding its production capacity for the industrial chemical benzyl alcohol for the global market by around 30 percent."
- [doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1016/s1350-4789(19)30118-7), 2019-04-01: "Lanxess Ag has successfully completed an optimisation project, which has resulted in a 15% increase in global production capacity of its Additin RC 4000 series corrosion inhibition (CI) additives."

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