LANXESS Limited is the UK arm of LANXESS Deutschland GmbH and operates from Newbury, Berkshire and Branston, Staffordshire. The Newbury registered head office houses sales, marketing and administration functions for some of the company's chemicals business units operating in the UK region. Further field-based polymers employees make up the rest of the team.
In Branston, the division formerly known as W. Hawley & Son now operates under the name of LANXESS Limited -  Inorganic Pigments and is an important part of the Performance Chemicals business, blending pigments primarily for the UK/Ireland markets for use in construction, coatings and related industries. LANXESS Branston employs around  31  people on site and two field-based employees also work on behalf of the Branston Inorganic Pigments business.