LANXESS, the future company where the Bayer Group will combine almost all areas of its chemicals business and parts of its polymers activities, has began operating as an independent unit. For the moment the new structure only applies internally.      “We’ve reached an important milestone for the realignment of the group on schedule,” said Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer board of management. The company is scheduled to be listed on the stock exchange at the beginning of 2005, and the dec...