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Arlanxeo
Arlanxeo (Singapore; 100% owned by Saudi Aramco since 2018; formerly Lanxess/Saudi Aramco 50/50 JV formed 2016) is a major synthetic rubber producer with EPDM, butyl rubber, nitrile rubber (NBR), and solution styrene-butadiene rubber (S-SBR) product lines. Arlanxeo's EPDM is produced at Geleen, Netherlands (Keltan grades retained under the Lanxess brand after the JV split) and at Triunfo, Brazil. As a Saudi Aramco subsidiary, Arlanxeo has direct access to Saudi petrochemical feedstocks — propylene from Sadara Chemical Company JV (Jubail, Saudi Arabia). Arlanxeo operates manufacturing in Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Canada, and Belgium. The Saudi Aramco parentage introduces geopolitical considerations: an Aramco-owned company controls EPDM capacity in Europe that supplies automotive and construction supply chains globally.
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chemical
Solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR) →
manufactured
EPDM / Rubber Seals and Gaskets (Plumbing) →
chemical
EPDM Rubber Membrane →
chemical
EPDM rubber seals & gaskets →
chemical
Elastomeric seals and gaskets →
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Where they make it
3 facilities
ARLANXEO Dormagen SSBR Complex →
DEDormagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · processing_plant
ARLANXEO's flagship SSBR production site; ~150,000 t/yr SSBR capacity; produces Buna VSL grades used by all major European and Asian tire manufacturers for EU label A/B-grade tires; Saudi Aramco acquired full control of ARLANXEO from LANXESS in 2018
Arlanxeo -- Marl Chemical Park, Germany →
DEMarl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany · chemical_plant
Primary Arlanxeo SSBR production facility at Marl Chemical Park (former Bayer rubber complex). ~22% of global SSBR from Arlanxeo; Marl is the primary European SSBR production site. Arlanxeo was formed as Bayer + Saudi Aramco JV (2016); Saudi Aramco acquired 100% from Lanxess (formerly Bayer) in 2022. Now state-owned Saudi enterprise controls world's 2nd-largest SSBR business.
Arlanxeo EPDM Plant — Triunfo Petrochemical Complex (Triunfo, Brazil) →
BRRio Grande do Sul · manufacturing
Arlanxeo EPDM manufacturing facility at the Triunfo Petrochemical Complex (Polo Petroquimico de Triunfo) in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This facility is one of the few non-North American, non-European EPDM production sites of significant scale — producing EPDM grades for Latin American automotive, construction, and plumbing markets, reducing the region's dependence on imported European or US EPDM. Source: https://www.arlanxeo.com/en/locations/
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EPDM (Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer)
40%Solution SBR (S-SBR)
25%Butyl & Halobutyl Rubber
20%Nitrile Rubber (NBR)
15%
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Did you know2022
Saudi Aramco — the world's largest oil company — owns the dominant European manufacturer of the synthetic rubber that makes EU-label-A tires possible ARLANXEO was created as a 50/50 joint venture between LANXESS (German specialty chemicals) and Saudi Aramco in 2016, then purchased outright by Saudi Aramco in 2018 for €1.4B. The acquisition gave the world's largest crude oil producer direct ownership of the leading SSBR manufacturer — the synthetic rubber mandated by EU tire labeling regulations for A-grade wet grip and rolling resistance. Saudi Aramco thus captures value both at the upstream crude oil level (feedstock for butadiene and styrene) and downstream as the SSBR producer: oil becomes tire polymer becomes the required EU-compliant tread compound. LANXESS retained Aramco as a customer, and ARLANXEO now supplies all major European and Asian OEM tire programs.
ARLANXEO ↗Origin2023
Arlanxeo was created in 2016 as a joint venture between Lanxess (German specialty chemicals, itself a Bayer spinoff) and Saudi Aramco, and was fully acquired by Saudi Aramco in 2018. The rationale was straightforward: Aramco provides propylene and butadiene feedstocks from Saudi petrochemical complexes; Lanxess provided the synthetic rubber manufacturing technology and European/global customer relationships. The result is that European automotive EPDM seals, German car door weather-strips, and Dutch roofing membranes are manufactured by a Saudi Aramco subsidiary with feedstocks flowing from Jubail, Saudi Arabia. A OPEC production decision that changes Saudi propylene pricing directly affects the cost of automotive door seals and EPDM roofing membranes in European construction -- a transmission mechanism that neither auto industry analysts nor construction materials analysts typically model.
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