More Environmentally Friendly and Safer

• The PLA BU offers highly effective phosphorus- and bromine-based flame retardants for high-performance plastics that  are used in battery modules and housings, high-voltage plugs, and components in the charging infrastructure sector.
  
  
• The color bright orange is used to enhance the safety of high-voltage components in electric cars and to protect first responders and mechanics in the event of accidents and maintenance work. The plastics dyed with BAYPLAST® Orange TP LXS 51137 – produced by the PLA BU – are characterized by a high degree of color stability, even at high temperatures.
  
  
• Heat is generated when fast charging vehicle batteries, and it needs to be effectively dissipated. For this purpose, immersion coolants are used to cool the battery cells through direct contact. This is where the LAB BU stands out with synthetic fluids such as phosphoric acid esters. They are electrically nonconductive and flame retardant. These properties are essential in order to increase safety during fast charging. 
  
  
• In cooperation with Guangzhou Tinci Materials Technology Co. in Leverkusen, the Saltigo BU produces electrolyte formulations for manufacturers of lithium-ion battery cells. The Chinese company is one of the world’s leading producers of conductive salts and electrolytes and supplies European cell manufacturers with high-purity electrolyte formulations.
  
  
• LANXESS is one of the leading manufacturers of anhydrous hydrofluoric acid, phosphorus chemicals, thionyl chloride, and fluorosulfonic acid. These are all important key raw materials required to produce conductive salts such as lithium hexafluorophosphate or lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide for electrolyte formulations. With their integrated plant network in Leverkusen, the AII and PLA BUs can play a major role in establishing local conducting salt production for sustainable cell manufacturing in Europe.
  
  
• Phosphorus additives from the PLA BU, which are used as additives for nonflammable electrolytes, increase safety within the battery cells and at the same time maintain the performance of the battery system.
  
  
• LANXESS has access to one of the largest underground brine deposits in North America, which contains large concentrations of lithium. The PLA BU supplies the brine to the Canadian company Standard Lithium Ltd., which it uses to produce high-purity lithium carbonate by means of direct lithium extraction (DLE).