LANXESS

Specialty chemicals, circular raw materials and product lifecycle management

LANXESS's 2025 Annual Report distinguishes company-wide resource inflows from a business-unit-specific production input. It reports 164,000 tonnes of secondary reused or recycled components in 2025 (160,000 tonnes in 2024, restated) and separately reports 154,000 tonnes of secondary scrap used in production by Inorganic Pigments in 2025. The report also records a 38% reduction in total landfilled waste against the 2021 base year. These measures do not establish product-level allocation, recovered output or external availability.

164,000 t Secondary reused or recycled components, 2025

160,000 t Restated prior-year 2024 figure

154,000 t Secondary scrap used in Inorganic Pigments production, 2025

38% Reduction in total landfilled waste vs. 2021 base year

• Specialty chemicals, inorganic pigments, recycled scrap, bio-based inputs, renewable energy and process materials
• Supplier raw-material data, product carbon footprint, formulations and customer applications
• Post-use products, packaging, waste streams and recycling routes

Outputs and residuals to resolve

• Pigments, additives, plastics, active ingredients, battery components and specialty chemicals
• Process waste, wastewater, packaging and customer product streams
• Product-level allocation, cycle classification and recovery evidence remain open

First decision: Choose one LANXESS product or business unit. Map raw-material classification, formulation, supplier evidence, customer use, technical or biological cycle and end-of-life route.

LANXESS uses a calculation tool to classify purchased raw materials as bio-based, circular or renewable.

Secondary input signal

LANXESS reports 164,000 tonnes of secondary reused or recycled components in 2025; the restated 2024 figure is 160,000 tonnes. This is a resource-inflow measure, not recovered output. 2025 Annual Report

Pigment signal

LANXESS reports 154,000 tonnes of secondary scrap used in its Inorganic Pigments business, establishing input scale but not a product-specific performance claim.

Waste signal

LANXESS reports a 38% reduction in total landfilled waste from the 2021 baseline.

Decision boundary

LANXESS has the beginnings of a material-accounting system that can support product decisions. It reports 160,000 tonnes of secondary reused or recycled components and 154,000 tonnes of secondary scrap in its Inorganic Pigments business. Those figures establish input scale, not a customer-ready product claim. The next decision is one formulation where the raw-material classification, lot evidence, performance requirement and end-of-life pathway can be tested together. The public record supports one bounded next move: Choose one LANXESS product or business unit. Map raw-material classification, formulation, supplier evidence, customer use, technical or biological cycle and end-of-life route. It does not establish a buyer, commercial approval or supply agreement.

This is a public screening map. It separates company-disclosed flows from open qualification work. It does not convert a destination into a buyer or an announced ambition into operating capacity.

Turn classification into procurement action

A raw-material label matters when it changes a product, supplier decision and customer claim.

Next evidence: Select product, input, supplier, classification, test and statement.

Join secondary scrap to product demand

The Inorganic Pigments signal is strongest when scrap quality and destination are visible.

Next evidence: Select scrap source, processing, pigment grade, customer and allocation.

Make cycle classification practical

Specialty chemicals can move through technical or biological cycles. The use and fate must be defined.

Next evidence: Select product, application, cycle, recovery or degradation route and evidence.

• Corporate sustainability reporting LANXESS, official reporting hub https://lanxess.com/en/company/energizing-sustainability/certifications-and-ratings/reporting
• Annual Report 2025 circularity section LANXESS, official report PDF https://lanxess.com/-/media/project/lanxess/corporate-internet/investors/reporting/2025/q4/2025-ar-lxs-web.pdf?hash=D445E71C11B53EFC294B7E683CA9435B&original=true
• Sustainable waste management LANXESS, official circularity and waste page https://lanxess.com/en/company/energizing-sustainability/environmental-stewardship/sustainable-waste-management

Source hierarchy: filings and company disclosures first. The brief states what those sources support and leaves the unresolved plant, grade, permit, buyer and mass-balance questions explicit.

Evidence boundary: LANXESS reports 2025 resource-inflow and Inorganic Pigments secondary-scrap input measures, but does not establish from these figures which product or grade received the input, its recovered output, or whether any stream is available to an external buyer.