On the morning of July 17th, the High Performance Rubber R&D Center of LANxess Energizing Chemistry opened. The center locates in the QUST Metropolitan Technical Park and is the biggest R&D center LANxess outside Germany. The opening of the Center will be a milestone toward the common goal of making the Park a “Rubber Valley” in China. QUST and LANxess will fully cooperate in sharing talents and equipments, joint-research, exploring the future of rubber technology.