RECRUITMENT   LANXESS 

Singapore - LANXESS' plans to build a 100,000-ton butyl rubber plant on Jurong Island is likely to create about 200 highly-skilled jobs.

The butyl rubber plant, which will help serve the rising demand for tires in the region, is expected to have its groundbreaking ceremony later in May 2010. Meanwhile, production is expected to start in the first quarter of 2013.

According to Kaye Lim, LANXESS' vice president of corporate communications for Asia Pacific, the core team for the butyl rubber project in Singapore currently consists of 20 people and the hiring process for plant personnel will commence shortly after the training period.

"The plant is expected to create roughly 200 high-skilled jobs, which include positions for chemical engineers, mechanical engineers, chemists and chemical process workers," Lim says, adding that the company hopes to hire mostly locals as well as people from around the region.

Lim adds, "For plant operators, the basic qualification should be at least a diploma in chemical process technology. Employees hired to operate the plant will go through extensive classroom and practical training. Key plant personnel will also receive training at one of LANXESS' existing butyl rubber plants in Sarnia, Canada, or Zwijndrecht, Belgium."

The global headquarters for the company's butyl rubber business unit will also be relocated from Switzerland to Singapore in the second quarter of 2010, so as to better cater to the growing Asia-Pacific demand.

"It will have about 35 employees in the course of the year. Most of them will be hired locally. The headquarters will house all global management functions such as marketing, controlling and supply chain," adds Lim.

 

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