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The future’s not ours to see – a wise saying that Ame-rican singer Doris Day knew as early as 1956. Since then, our world has become even more unpredictable. In times when technological disruptions, social upheavals and political turnarounds have become the order of the day, nobody can say what will be in one year from now – to say nothing of 2040 or 2050. And as the world is chan-ging, so is the chemical industry – an industry that sup-plies materials for all conceivable products, from buil-ding materials all the way to food additives and drugs.

In spite of all uncertainty, chemical and pharmaceutical companies are obliged to think long-term – especially when it comes to investments. Hence, the industry has set off to take at least a glance into the future. The Euro-pean Chemical Industry Council Cefic, for example, in a recent study explored what major challenges stakeholders expect until 2050 and how the European chemical industry might help to find solutions. Specialty chemicals company Evonik, on the other hand, discovered no less than five different “futures“: Will the world in 2040 be dominated by China or rather by American technology companies? And what impact would that have on the future viability of product developments and business models, respectively. But you don’t have to go that far: even predicting next year’s oil price has become more and more difficult.

In this new issue of our International Compendium of Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Biotech Industrial Parks we

approach all these kinds of questions and try to give answers. We also show that Europe’s industry has alrea-dy taken the future in hand – the numerousconstruction and expansion projects in times of a struggling world economy are visual proof of that. And whichever of the future questions bothers you and your company the most, the industrial parks we present in our overview offer a strong base for your projects.

A challenge that we all will have to face is the need for decarbonisation. Unfortunately, the prospects are very clear for this particular item. The chemical industry has already come a long way in reducing emissions. However, there is still a lot of work to do. An EU ex-perts group has now developed recommendations on how energy-intensive industries can become climate-neutral by 2050 and stay competitive at the same time – a major balancing act. Reason to hope comes from a study that says that a greenhouse gas-neutral chemistry is technically feasible – as well as several “green“ projects in industrial parks. Maybe the future is not ours to see, but it’s definitely ours to make.

„Strategic science fiction“: A study delivers five scenarios for the world in 2040 and the future of the chemical industry. page 10

Our map shows ongoing chemical plant cons-truction and expansion projects we reported on in 2019. page 22

A experts group on EU level has developed recommendations on how to transform energy-intensive industries. page 13

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MarketInfographicsEU Chemistry in a Global Perspective 6

Forecasts for Oil Price and Production 18

News 34, 50

StrategyCefic Study on the Future of Chemical Industry 8

Evonik Develops Five Scenarios of the Future of the Specialty Chemicals Industry 2040 10

New Recommendations by EU‘s High Level Group on Energy-Intensive Industries 13

Greenhouse Gas-neutral Chemistry is Technically Feasable 16

ProjectsChemical Plant Construction Projects in Europe 22

ManagementForce Majeure: Communication and Crisis Management When Things Go Wrong 24

Molecule Managers: Europe 2050What will Europe and the world look like in 2050? What challenges can we expect on the way? And how can the European chemical industry help to find solutions? Cefic sets out to provide some answers. page 8

Force Majeure as a Crisis SituationLow water levels during summer 2018 caused difficul-ties for companies of the chemical industry. What is the right way to handle such cases of force majeure and what preparations can be made? page 24

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NEW EU-POLICY AND CHANGING STRATEGIES

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Market OverviewCT Exclusive Industrial Parks in Europe 26

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Facts and Figures on Chemical Production

EU Chemistry in a Global PerspectiveEmerging markets in Asia and changing business models are not making life any easier for the chemical industry in Europe. But the industry doesn’t have to fear the future, because the data provided by the Chemical Industry Association Cefic show: The European chemical network works, and European chemical products are in great demand all over the world.

Europe is the world’s second largest producer of chemi-cals, but growth in emerging markets is reducing its market share. The total turnover of the global chemical industry has almost doubled in the past decade from €1.9 trillion in 2007 to €3.5 trillion in 2017.

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The year 2050 may seem a long way away. But that is only two investment cycles away for an indus-try that thinks in decades – or the day after to-

morrow in practical terms. Moreover, the chemical in-dustry occupies a key position in today’s world: It has connections with every other industry and supplies raw materials and specialist materials for all conceivable products, ranging from building materials via fuels, all the way to food additives and drugs. Highly dependent upon future developments in chemistry, the industry nevertheless has a crucial controlling influence in its capacity as molecule manager.

In order to prepare for the future, in October 2017 Cefic consulted more than 300 stakeholders from aca-demia, government, and think tanks. These stakeholders from a range of disciplines held discussions about meg-atrends, alternative raw materials, circular economy, cli-mate change, and the European energy mix. Based on those discussions, the Council made a series of assump-tions and challenged hundreds of experts from around the world to further discussions. These culminated in a report of the present situation of the chemical industry, in Europe also in the context of global competition, and paint a picture of the future.

And How Will Europe Look in 2050?Houses and apartments are CO2 neutral. Autonomous vehicles and car sharing are normal. Fuel cells or alterna-tive fuels have replaced diesel fuel and kerosene in freight transport. Renewable and other low-emission energy sources have replaced some two thirds of fossil fuels. Europe is no longer a net CO2 emitter.

Data have replaced oil as the world’s most valuable raw material. Data-mining, artifi-cial intelligence, predictive main-tenance, and data-based process management will transform in-dustry. Blockchain technology will introduce radical transparency and track the path of a molecule along the value chain all the way to recycling.

Almost everything is developed in such a way that it can be recycled, and even exhaust gases serve as valuable feedstock in a totally circular economy. Europe will be the world leader in sustainable technologies. Pie in the sky? Yes, but pie you can eat. The report describes each of these visions on its own as “highly plausible and high-ly desirable” and even more plausible and even more desirable as part of a coherent system.

Sustainability Signals from ChemistryThe authors of the study do not believe that the struggle against nationalism and protectionism will be over by 2050. Competition between different regions of the world will intensify correspondingly. The authors see the best chance for Europe’s technological market lead-ership in the principle “quality rather than quantity”. This also includes development and early implementa-tion of technologies to offset the effects of the climate crisis. A sustainable circular economy is an essential prerequisite.

Here it is up to the chemical industry in Europe to provide the necessary impetus: Digitisation and trans-parency are the tools for efficient production. Develop-ment and further refinement of disruptive technologies such as hydrogen generation, fuel cells, and artificial photosynthesis, and also CO2 fixation and utilisation are the goal. These methods are already under development, and some are on the verge of industrial scale implemen-tation.

A climate-neutral circular economy by the year 2050 is an ambitious goal and a „daunting responsibility” for the chemical industry at the heart thereof. Because none of this will be possible without political and social sup-port. The study therefore appeals to politicians to adopt the goals of the United Nations for sustainable develop-ment (UN Sustainable Development Goals) as a guide-line. However, to do this will require an “unprecedented mobilisation of investment funds and of society and every sector of the European economy”. Because the life of each individual person will be changed, it is up to each individual person to participate in the change as it oc-curs. ●

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Cefic Study on the Future of Chemical Industry

Molecule Managers: Europe 2050 What will Europe and the world look like in 2050? What challenges can we expect on the way? And how can the European chemical industry help to find solutions? In a re-cently published study “Molecule Managers – A Journey into the Future of Europe with the European Chemical Industry” the European Chemical Industry Council Cefic sets out to provide some speculative yet plausible answers to these questions.

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Evonik Develops Five Scenarios of the Future of the Specialty Chemicals industry 2040

The Future Comes in Many GuisesWill China or American technology companies dominate the world of the future? Whoever can predict global developments and trends will find it easier to make strategic decisions. Evonik has therefore developed five scenarios of the future – and these show not only how the specialty chemicals industry but how our very lives could change by the year 2040.

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The pivotal question at the beginning of what the author claims to be the world’s largest study of this kind into the future of the specialty chemi-

cals industry was: Which shaping factors can exert a long-term influence on the future of the specialty chemicals industry? The answer should deliver scenar-ios which show how the future world might possibly look. The emphasis here is on the word “possibly”:

„Our scenarios may become reality, but they don’t have to“, explains Harald Schwager, deputy CEO with re-sponsibility for innovation. These scenarios are not forecasts of the probability that x or y will actually happen. Instead, they are intended to define an “option space” and thus permit testing of the future viability of product developments, business models, or efficiency strategies.

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In order to developed the five scenarios, company scientists have collected a range of data and analyses. Some 100 interviews with internal and external experts from the fields of chemistry, politics, business as well as other sources such as future studies and workshops pro-vided the basis for this work. The experts adopted a complex process to identify and analyse key factors, de-duced possible developments, and combined them to yield five very different scenarios.

Scenario 1: Deceptive CalmThe first scenario developed assumes that the world has indeed changed but, but slowly and gradually. There have been no dramatic geopolitical and technological shifts up to the year 2040 and global economic growth remains strong. It benefits from a strongly growing mid-dle class and hence from increasing demand.

Since no new competitors have appeared, this scenar-io initially paints a positive picture for the established players in the specialty chemicals sector. Yet in this case the search for environmentally friendly processes would recede into the background. Sudden and all the more radical interventions from legislators then become all the more likely.

Scenario 2: Sustainability ParadigmIn complete contrast, the second scenario singles out sustainability as the guiding economic principle of the global economy up until 2040. Digitisation, advances in biotechnology, and cheap electricity from renewable sources enable sustainability and also make it economi-cally attractive.

Industry – including specialty chemicals companies – has therefore trimmed its processes, products, and business models to sustainability without waiting for any kind of global regulation. Ecological properties of prod-ucts are no longer a cost factor in this scenario, but promise additional profits and an opportunity to stand out against the competition. Shorter distances and hence

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greater proximity to suppliers and end-user markets would also be more important.

Scenario 3: Digital ChampionsIn the third possible scenario, the large internet enter-prises have used their knowledge and their particular way of thinking to increasingly penetrate traditional in-dustries and capture part of the added value they pro-duce. The digital champions form horizontally net-worked and closed ecosystems and thus dominate the markets and contacts to the user.

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Manufacturing enterprises thus increasingly assume the role of contract manufacturers. For well-established companies in the specialty chemicals sector, this means that they develop such ecosystems themselves or at-tempt to occupy their own switching points in the new system – also increasingly deploying digital technolo-gies in order to successfully compete with the internet enterprises.

Scenario 4: Turbulent TimesThe fourth scenario sees a world in which many coun-tries have become increasingly nationalistic and is con-sequently characterised by deglobalisation and waning international solidarity.

Societies have become ever more polarized and pop-ulist, authoritarian governments have pushed back de-mocracy. Societies have become ever more polarised and

less democratic. Trade barriers and conflicts have com-pelled companies in the specialty chemicals industry to set up local supply chains and thus also to re-open dis-cussions about hitherto viable business sites.

Scenario 5: Chinese DreamIn the future vision of the fifth scenario, China has be-come a global superpower by 2040 – a military, political, and economic leader. More and more Chinese compa-nies have become market leaders in various key technol-ogies. In addition, that country has also taken the lead in matters relating to environmental protection.

For (European) specialty chemical companies this scenario means that they will have to face new and stronger competitors from Asia. At the same time, it will be important to benefit from the Chinese market and its potential. Here it will be necessary to expand their local presence and to participate in Chinese institutions.

Prepared for any Possible FutureEach one of these future scenarios thus includes devel-opments which could be relevant in the medium to long term for the specialty chemicals business. Evonik will therefore now proceed to “utilise the results of the sce-nario project for our innovation processes and strate-gies”, said Chief Innovation Officer Ulrich Küsthardt. The influence of the scenarios on business models, cus-tomer expectations, and material flows is to be analysed in workshops. Moreover, business sectors or entire re-gional organisations should use the scenarios to test the robustness of existing strategies, to further refine strate-gies as needed, and to plan new strategies.Ideally, a single strategy or a single business model will function equally well in all the scenarios. However, since the future visions differ very widely from one another and are partly mutually contradictory, the most likely practical approach will be to prepare the organisation or the entire enterprise to meet each one of the possible future scenarios. ●

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New Recommendations by the EU’s High Level Group on Energy-Intensive Industries

Balancing Act for EU’s IndustryEnergy-intensive industries lie at the heart of many value chains and are crucial for Europe’s economy and jobs. Now, a group of experts has developed recommendations on how to transform these industries to reach the objectives for a circular and climate- neutral economy by 2050. At the same time, the industries are to stay competitive and socially just – a major balancing act.

The expert group gathered representatives from eleven industries, which make up more than half of the EU industry‘s energy con-

sumption, such as aluminium, steel, cement – and chemicals. These industries also have a strong record

in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing theirs by 36% between 1990 and 2015. Given the long investment cycles for these industries, the European Commission believes that meeting the 2050 target requires fast action to meet the objectives that were

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put forward in its “A Clean Planet for All“ strategy in November 2018.

Saving the Climate while Remaining CompetitiveThe Commission published the expert groups new rec-ommendations at the end of November. The experts have developed a policy framework aiming to strike the right balance between Europe‘s climate ambitions and the need for the industries to remain competitive. Their input is to feed into the EU Industrial Strategy and the European Green Deal, announced by the designated President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, that aims to make Europe become the first climate-neutral continent.

The experts’ recommendations in-clude actions that are intended to pro-vide the right market signals to attract new investments and help companies implement cost-effective solutions towards climate-neutrality. They also focus on the need to ensure a socially just transition, underlining the im-portance of equipping workers with the right skills for the future and of helping communities that depend on these industries to manage the transition.

New Markets for Circular ProductsIn particular, the recommendations highlight key suc-cess factors under three main priorities: First, creating markets for climate-neutral and circular products, for example by making a more strategic use of public pro-curement to select sustainable products and services. This is provided for in the 2014 revision of the rules, giving public authorities the power to use public pro-curement to achieve environmental, societal or innova-tive objectives when buying goods and services.

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The experts urge the EU to develop an enabling framework to support the cost competitiveness of cli-mate neutral, circular economy products. Furthermore, the experts underline the need to help consumers make more informed choices. They also ask the companies to share best practices and guidance among fellow industry participants, e.g. through professional bodies and associ-ations, and to support other actors in identifying circular

and low-carbon techniques with low oth-er environmental impacts.

Need for Large-scale Pilot ProjectsSecondly, the experts underline the need to develop large-scale pilot projects to showcase clean technologies by 2025–2030, with the aim of bringing them to market. They should be supported with EU funds and by easier access to private financing. This also requires eligibility

criteria between different funds, both on an EU level and national level, as well as interoperability of funding mechanisms. But the industrial actors are needed, too: The experts plead for a bottom-up approach in which industry indicates areas where, and what level, financial needs are to be expected.

Thirdly, the experts urge all actors to switch to alter-native climate-neutral energy and feedstock sources. This would require, for example, the EU and national legislators to secure access to and availability of such sources at globally competitive prices, mapping energy infrastructure and supply. On the other hand, the ener-gy-intensive industries, for example, would need to provide demand response flexibilities. Moreover, the experts demand greater transparency in raw material supply chains and ask companies to improve tracking of secondary raw materials and chemicals. According to the experts’ recommendations, industries should also

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promote the ‘energy efficiency first’ principle across all operations. Furthermore, they should make their plants ready for waste heat recovery and waste heat delivery.

Opportunities for “Innovation, Economic Growth and Job Creation”The experts group also recommends setting up an in-dustrial transition observatory to monitor industry’s progress towards climate-neutrality and to provide guid-ance. “EU industries are our partners in achieving cli-mate and circularity objectives”, said Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska, responsible for Internal Market,

Industry, Entrepreneurship and Small and Medi-um-sized Enterprises (SME). “A climate-neutral econo-my is not only a must for future generations. It also represents immense opportunities in terms of innova-tion, economic growth and job creation.”

At the beginning of next year, the Commission plans to present the recommendations to the Member States, in the EU Competitiveness Council, and to the Europe-an Parliament. It remains to be seen whether the many interests and ambitious goals - environmental, economic and social - can be reconciled at the same time. And time indeed is short. ●

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Study on Major CO2 Reduction by Industry

Greenhouse Gas-neutral Chemistry is Technically Feasible The German chemical industry can almost completely reduce its greenhouse gas emis-sions by the middle of the century – with the help of new production technologies.

This is the outcome of a study that was commis-sioned by the German Chemical Industry Associa-tion (Verband der Chemischen Industrie, VCI) and

carried out by the Society for Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology (Dechema) and the consulting firm Future-camp. The analysis also examined the prerequisites for the industry to become greenhouse gas-neutral by 2050. Be-side the development of new methods mainly in basic chemistry, this calls for a permanently low industrial elec-tricity price and generation of considerable volumes of emission-free electricity from renewable sources.

Greenhouse Gas Neutrality as a Societal TaskVCI director-general Wolfgang Große Entrup explained that the study was the result of the industry’s long and in-tensive climate protection efforts. He stated to journalists in Berlin: “The German chemical industry is committed to greenhouse gas neutrality as a societal task. We want to successfully follow this way by 2050. As a German indus-try, we hope to be the trailblazer for a technological trans-formation of the chemical industry worldwide.” In order to support companies in this process, VCI plans to set up a new platform that brings together expertise from a wide range of different sectors and intends to cover the entire value chain from manufacturers and final consumers to politicians and society as a whole.

Klaus Schäfer, chief technology officer of Covestro AG and chairman of the VCI Committee on Energy, Climate Protection and Raw Materials, presented the content of the VCI study and gave some relevant explanations: “The re-quired CO2-free processes for the production of basic chemicals are known today in principle, but they need to be further developed and brought to market maturity for large-scale use. Their application is thinkable from the mid-2030s onwards”. Schäfer adds: “In technological terms, it is conceivable to have a largely climate-neutral chemical production in Germany in 2050. But all the pre-requisites must be right. The companies can only drive forward the transformation to zero emissions if they re-main competitive in each phase and have large volumes of renewable, low cost electricity at their disposal.”

Analysing Three Development PathsThe study is entitled “Auf dem Weg zu einer treibhausgas-neutralen chemischen Industrie in Deutschland“ (towards a greenhouse gas-neutral chemical industry in Germany). Based on three different levels of amibition, it describes the developments over coming decades:

In a reference path, the German chemical industry would keep producing with today’s technologies while

further increasing its efficiency through continuous in-vestments. In this scenario, the industry would be able to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 27% to 2050, compared with the level of 2020.

In a second technology path, even 61% reduction would be possible if the companies additionally invested heavily in new process technologies for basic chemicals. However, this level of ambition comes with a very high demand for renewable electricity of 224 TWh/a – which corresponds to the total volume of electricity from renew-ables in Germany in 2018. Additional investment in new plants amount ca. €15 billion.

The third path of greenhouse gas-neutrality presuppos-es even more far-reaching measures. It closes the gap to a complete CO2 reduction. Here, the companies would in-troduce new process technologies for CO2 cuts already before these become economically viable. For the produc-tion of the six basic chemicals examined in the study alone, the companies would need to additionally invest around €45 billion from 2020 to 2050. Also, electricity demand would once more rise rapidly from the mid-2030s on-wards. Reaching 628 terawatt hours, if would roughly match the level of today’s total electricity production in Germany.

Necessary Framework ConditionsFor Klaus Schäfer, the outcome of the study shows that it is difficult to achieve greenhouse gas-neutral chemistry without favourable framework conditions. Schäfer said: “The greater the ambition with which the German chemi-cal industry pursues the goal of greenhouse gas neutrality, the more the associated costs and the electricity require-ment will rise. It is the task of politicians to actively accom-pany new technologies in all phases from development to market launch. Another political task is to keep up the international competitiveness of the chemical industry at the location Germany.” According to Schäfer, this can be done either through a global climate protection agreement or support from the public administration.

For Schäfer, low electricity prices are paramount on the road to greenhouse gas neutrality. He stated: “The new processes are only economically viable in Germany before 2050 at electricity costs of 4 cents/KWh. At present, we are still far away from this price. Therefore, politicians will have to take further measures to curb electricity prices for industry, in addition to existing burden easing and carbon leakage rules.” Schäfer noted that already 50% higher elec-tricity costs – i.e. 6 cents per KWh – would move the eco-nomic viability of most processes to a time well beyond 2050. [ak]Pi

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In 2019, at least two headlines had the potential to send the oil price sky high: At the beginning of May, the US government announced its intention to send aircraft car-riers and bombers to the Middle East. At the end of the same month, they announced that 1,500 US soldiers would also be deployed to Iran to underline the threats. Just a few years ago, each one of these two reports on its own would have sufficed to send crude oil markets sky-rocketing. But this time the markets remained complete-ly unimpressed. The price for WTI crude remained at around 61 dollars per barrel between the beginning and middle of May, then climbed to $63 for a short time be-fore finally falling to $58 per barrel on 22 May. All in all, the markets are nervous - between July 2018

Forecasts for Oil Price, Oil and Shale Gas Production

A Pre-announced Revolution The oil price has largely decoupled itself from political developments and crises. This makes it increasingly difficult to make forecasts for this raw material, which is so important for the global chemical industry.

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and November 2019 the WTI price fluctuated between $85 and $44 per barrel - but political events leave quota-tions largely cold. Of much greater concern is the actual oil price, which has long been regarded as an important indicator of the state of the global economy. In the au-tumn of 2018, the prices went down to $43. In December, Opec therefore decided to cut production by 1.2 million barrels a day. As a result, but above all due to the surpri-singly good economic data from China, WTI recovered to $66 per barrel (April 2019). The US Department of Energy reported the highest reserves since 2017 - a pow-erful signal against the background of the escalating trade dispute between the US and China and the already latent concerns about the global economy.

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Concerns about Global Economy Depress Oil PriceWith regard to investments and locations, however, the short-term development of crude oil prices is not a par-ticularly important factor. Long-term expectations play a more important role here. Short- and medium-term forecasts carry the greatest risk of misinterpretation. Market researchers at McKinsey, for example, assume that the price of Brent crude oil will settle at $60 to $70 per barrel by 2020 - provided that demand remains sta-ble and Opec members maintain their discipline. If the economy clouds over, market researchers expect a set-back to $50. At the same time, McKinsey estimates that prices of up to $90 are also possible if oil production in Venezuela and Iran is further restricted.

A similar assessment is made by the American energy agency EIA, which expects a Brent price of $67 per barrel in 2020. The International Energy Agency IEA in Paris assumes that geopolitics are currently casting shadows over the oil markets and the economy is losing momen-tum. There are also new game changers in the oil market: in addition to growing awareness of the sustainability of oil and gas production, there are new environmental re-gulations, for example to reduce sulphur emissions from shipping. There the demand will shift from heavy oil with a high sulphur content to oils and ship diesel with a very low sulphur content.

Gamechangers are Reshuffling the Oil MarketThe fact that Opec’s production cuts in recent years had only a minor impact is due to the American producers: if the price of crude oil rises due to a tighter supply, sha-le oil producers immediately fill the gap. According to

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The trend towards shale oil also has consequences in terms of technology: While classic crude oil from mari-time or continental deposits has a comparatively high sulphur content, shale oil contains significantly less sulphur and is easier to process. The IEA already sees the second wave of the American shale revolution: This will change international trade routes for oil and gas and also affect global energy geopolitics. According to estimates by the Energy Agency, the USA will cover 70 % of the additional demand for crude oil in the next five years.

From the mid-2020s, global oil demand will decline due to the electrification of the transportation sector, and petrochemicals will then become the biggest de-mand driver. McKinsey estimates that peak oil will be reached in 2033.

Second Shale RevolutionThe development of natural gas is also interesting. Here, too, the geopolitical effects of the second wave of the shale revolution are already being felt - for example in the growing pressure exerted by the US government on customers in Europe to build terminals for American liquefied natural gas (LNG) and to abandon the Russian-German Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. If the American frackers expand production as expected, coal will be further reduced as an energy source for electricity gene-ration. EIA expects the share to rise to a total of 37% (+2%) this year.

For the American chemical industry, the second wave of the slate revolution is also acting as a stimulant. In December 2018, the chemical association ACC counted more than 320 announced investment projects with a volume of more than $200 billion with which investors want to take advantage of low-cost shale gas. While in the past the chemical companies invested primarily in plants on the Gulf Coast in the south of the USA, the second wave could lead to a new focus on chemicals: The ACC estimates that up to 69,000 chemical jobs will be created in the four states of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky bordering the Appalachian Moun-tains due to shale gas deposits by 2025 and that 36 billion US dollars will be invested in new plants there. The asso-ciation expects five new ethane crackers and two propa-ne dehydrogenation plants. According to the ACC, a to-tal of 431,000 direct and indirect jobs could be created with the shale gas-related investments currently an-nounced in the USA. By way of comparison, 453,000 people were employed in the chemical industry in Ger-many in 2018.

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● Kallo (BEL): Borealis has awarded Tecni-mont with the EPCM contract for a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant.

● Kallo (BEL): Borealis held the ground-breaking ceremony for its new, world-scale propane dehydrogenation plant.

● Bergen op Zoom (NED): Fluor was awar-ded an EPCM contract by Sabic for the recommissioning of its polyphenylene ether (PPE) resin plant.

● Eemshaven (NED): RWE and Innogy ha-ve started a feasibility study to build an

up to 100 MW hydrogen plant on the site of the Eemshaven power station.

● Stenungsund (SWE): After the inaugu-ration of a new demonstration plant in Stenungsund, Nouryon confirmed plans for world-scale facility to produce ethy-lene amines and their derivatives on a new technology platform.

● Stenungsund (SWE): Nouryon in a €12-million expansion and upgrade project plans to double capacity at its surfactants plant.

● Marl (GER): Siemens was awarded a contract by Evonik to build a combined cycle power plant as a turnkey project at the Marl Chemical Park.

● Marl (GER): Ineos Phenol has broken ground at its world-scale cumene in-vestment in Marl, a 750,000 tonnes unit.

● Marl (GER): Evonik is expanding its pro-duction of transparent polyamides of the Trogamid CX brand.

● Oberhausen (GER): Oxea is planning to build a new world-scale production plant for carboxylic acids.

● Oberhausen (GER): Oxea decided to ex-pand its production capacities for TCD Alcohol.

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● Knapsack (GER): Palurec is building a re-cycling plant to recycle foils and plastic closures from beverage cartons.

● Worms (GER): Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz (CAC) is building a new silica production plant for Grace.

● Speyer (GER): Haltermann Carless is in-vesting in a new hydrogenation plant.

● Ludwigshafen (GER): BASF is to increase the production capacity of alkylethanol-amines (AEOA) at its Verbund site.

● Baden-Württemberg (GER): TENP has awarded a contract to Bilfinger to build

a deodorization plant at the border bet-ween Germany and Switzerland.

● Frankfurt-Hoechst (GER): Nouryon star-ted construction on a project to further increase capacity for chloromethanes.

● Darmstadt (GER): Evonik is expanding its capacities for organic dispersions for heat-sealing applications.

● Gendorf (GER): Clariant is expanding the capacity of its ethylene oxide unit.

● Leuna (GER): Linde is building another hydrogen liquefaction plant, which is scheduled to go into operation in 2021.

● Tiszaújváros (HUN): Thyssenkrupp is building a new integrated chemical complex for MOL.

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Communication and Crisis Management When Things Go Wrong

Force Majeure as a Crisis Situation Force majeure can have many causes: For example, low water levels during summer 2018 caused difficulties for companies of the chemical industry. Higher transport costs had to be passed on the customers, delivery bottlenecks led to much annoyance and production problems. What is the right way to handle such cases of force majeure? What preparations can be made for such a situation?

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The term “force majeure”, which has such an al-most charming French ring to it, refers to a crisis situation which can overtake an enterprise or an

institution in spite of all precautionary measures. The concept of force majeure covers natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, severe storms, or volcanic erup-tions, as well as fires, civil wars, hostage taking, and sabotage. That is merely an excerpt from a long list of possible events which unexpectedly and without any fault might interrupt the production chain in a company. They may not only unexpectedly cause delivery prob-lems but in extreme cases threaten the very existence of an enterprise. Traffic accidents, terrorism, or under cer-tain legal circumstances also strikes belong to the force-majeure category. In today‘s globalised economy, the consequences will be felt not only in the directly af-fected region or in a single company. Disruptions can

affect all actors within the value chain, from manufac-turer via supplier, to end user.

Communication has Legal Consequences The law assumes that force majeure applies to an event if it “comes from outside, is unforeseeable, and cannot be averted, even with the utmost diligence that can reason-ably be expected”. The German legal system assigns force-majeure cases to the domain of civil law. Accord-ing to Section 275 of the German civil code (BGB), contractual partners are released from contractual obli-gations if rendering of a service by the liable party or by anyone is impossible. Force-majeure cases are more dif-ficult to resolve in English-speaking counties. In those countries, Common Law does not release the supplier from his obligation to supply and under certain circum-stances provides for damage claims. And also in the

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German legal system there are cases which are not une-quivocal, for example in the case of shortages of raw materials which the manufacturer could not foresee of avert. For this reason, many General Terms and Condi-tions and contracts contain special “force-majeure claus-es” providing detailed rules for compensation claims. However, force majeure gives rise to questions concern-ing not only questions of liability with regard to fulfil-ment of contractual obligations. In the process of crisis management, particular attention should be paid to the duty to inform customers. When does a customer have to be informed, and how large is the circle of those who have to be informed? It should also be noted that no kind of automatism when force majeure is concerned.

Specifically, this means: Each enterprise must decide for itself whether force majeure does indeed have to be declared. In order that force majeure can be declared, all communication must be “prompt, without undue delay”. However, that does not exclude ascertaining whether alternative production or an alternative supply is possible. If your company should be affected by force majeure, you should clarify beforehand which test measures should be undertaken and the latest stage at which it should be decided to give notice of force ma-jeure. When the time comes to do so, each individual contractual partner must be informed in a customer letter or other written form of communication. This also means that if your supplier is unable to supply and cites force majeure as the reason, his notification does not release your company from your duty to inform your own customers. If far-reaching financial conse-quences of relevance for the capital market are to be expected, then the usual duties to inform shareholders apply. But beware of all-too-hastily issued wide-scale announcements: These could raise competition law questions.

Neither Too Much nor Too Little CommunicationForce majeure is a crisis, for which it is possible to be well prepared. In view of possible legal consequences of “too much” or “too little” communication, the relevant processes, responsibilities, and stakeholders should be clearly named beforehand. Like a general crisis manual, a force-majeure manual which sets out internal proce-dures and responsibilities between all the departments involved in an emergency can be useful. What is allowed to be said and how should it be said? And another im-

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portant point: Who has the right to speak to the press? Many of these questions can be clarified in advance and answered in an agreed wording using standard texts.

Whatever applies to a general crisis manual is also valid for the force-majeure manual: Whether it exists in printed or in digital form is not particularly relevant. More important is that it is up to date and that all re-sponsible persons know where to find it. Chapters about functions, responsibilities, accessibilities, telephone lists, behavioural conventions/information exchange or oper-ating procedures. As for any crisis communication, in the case of a force-majeure event: Communication should be based on principles of openness, transparen-cy, credibility, and dialogue orientation (active and in good time), and be truthful (factual), comprehensible (short, simple, vivid), and consistent.

Monitoring of Social Media Facilitates Rapid ReactionDo not underestimate the impact of social-media chan-nels. Speculations about the extent of a crisis caused by a force majeure event soon become hashtags; anybody can send and receive news, there are no longer any hard and fast boundaries. Everybody is in a position to reach a large community with his or her messages through so-cial-media channels. The expectation to receive rapid answers or statements at any time of day or night is very high among all target groups. By setting up a monitoring system in advance, you will be able to react faster in the case of a crisis and thus curb the spread of fake news. In addition, you retain the prerogative of interpretation of the situation and thus limit the extent of the crisis. More-over, you can also assure that the corporate image does not suffer damage in the crisis situation.

A healthy measure of competent and open informa-tion towards customers and suppliers will ensure that your stakeholders trust you also in the case of a crisis. Be careful in your communications of force majeure, but do not delay in contacting your customers and sup-pliers and be prepared to answer all their questions. Report the facts calmly and as accurately as possible and offer your customers the opportunity to jointly seek possible solutions. Successful communication dur-ing a crisis enhances trust in your company and pro-motes stable customer and supplier relations. And as for every crisis: Successful crisis management is a team effort but the responsibility for good preparation and an orderly course of events lies with management. ●

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CT Market Overview Industrial Parks

European Sites at a GlanceIndustrial parks offer fertile ground for growth. CHEMIE TECHNIK regularly publishes overviews of industrial parks in Europe. Our latest overview lists almost 60 European industrial sites focusing on chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries. More details: www.marktuebersichten.chemietechnik.de

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Austria Chemiepark Linz Borealis Agrolinz Melamine; Borealis Polyolefine, Borealis L.A.T. www.borealisgroup.com

120 hectares / 20 hectares

NH3, Urea, H2, HNO3, N2, melamine electricity, natural gas, steam (25 bar), cooling water, sewer

Austria Metadynea Industriepark

Metadynea Austria www.metadynea.com


methanol, formalin, melamine, urea, phe-nol, sulfuric acid and caustic soda

10 bar steam, cooling and municipal water, electricity, nitrogen, natural gas and pres-surized air

GER / Baden Wuerttem-berg

Industrial Park Weinheim

Freudenberg Service www.industriepark-weinheim.de

80 hectares / for devel-opment: 5 hectares

processing of plastics, rubber and metals electricity, local heating/ steam, warm & cold water, deionised water, compressed air, natural gas


Industriepark Willstätt

B.I.W. www.industriepark-willstaett.de

45 hectares / 7 hec-tares

all common current process media power, steam, hot, warm & cold water, cooling water, compressed air, nitrogen, natural gas

GER /Baden-Wuerttem-berg

Infrarhod Indus-trial Park of Rhodia Acetow Freiburg

Rhodia Acetow www.infrarhod.com www.rhodia-acetow.com

53 hectares, available: 17 hectares

products of cellulose acetate, nylon 6.6, technical polyamide

cogeneration plant located on the site; electricity, steam, drinking water, cooling water, cold water, deionised water, compressed air, nitrogene, natural gas, waste water treat-ment and waste disposal


Parkone Gren-zach

DSM Nutritional Products www.parkone.de

260.000 m² / 30.000 m² basic chemicals and specialities electricity, steam, coolant (ammonia/brine (-25°C)) water (different qualities), com-pressed air, natural gas, technical gases (nitrogen, hydrogen), waste water treatment, preliminary treatment (Loprox), waste management

GER / Bavaria

Gendorf Chemi-cal Park

Infraserv Gendorf www.infraserv.gendorf.de www.gendorf.de


salt, ethylene, fatty acids and fatty alcohols, PTFE, TFE, flourchemicals, NaOH, Cl, EDC, VC, EO, glycols, tensids, amines, N2, O2, CO2, argon and other noble gases, water (differ-ent qualities)

gas and steam plant, ac, dc, steam, natural gas, compressed air, O2; N2; H2; cooling wa-ter, compressed air, deionised water waste water treatment waste incineration waste disposal management

GER / Bavaria

Industrial Park Gersthofen

MVV Industriepark Gersthofen www.mvv-igs.de


basic chemicals and specialities, N2, resins, NaOH, HCl, chloroacetic acid

ac, dc, steam, cooling water, demineralized water, compressed air, load management

GER /Bavaria Industrie Center Obernburg

Mainsite www.mainsite.de

175 hectares, 65 hec-tares production area, 16 hectares expansion area, 32 hectares in de-velopment

viscose technical and textile, polyamide, polyester, sulfonated polyethersulfone, plas-tics, nonwovens, various medical products, microporous polymers and additives, metal powders, metal working, hightech-analyt-ics, logistics, research institute of univ. of appl. Sciences Aschaffenburg on site

On-site grid systems for electricity, steam, drinking water, cooling water, deionised wa-ter, compressed air, cooling power, nitrogen and natural gas. Waste management sys-tem, waste water treatment facility, sewage sludge recycling

GER / Berlin berlinbiotech-park

berlinbiotechpark www.berlinbiotechpark.de

62.000 m2 / available: 4.500 m2

biotech center, focus on pharmaceutical production and medical technology

electricity, steam, high purity steam, compressed air, N2, other inert gases, cooling wa-ter, deionised water, ap, WFI

GER / Brandenburg

BASF Schwarzheide GmbH

BASF Schwarzheide www.basf-schwarzheide.de

290 hectares / about 100 hectares

H2,CO, N2, HCl, nitric acid, toluene, chlo-rides, isocyanates, acids, sodium hydroxide, alcohols, ethylene oxide, butane diols, hex-ane diols, propylene oxide, amines, phos-gene, styrene, basic & performance poly-mers, PUR, alkylene oxides, bio-glycerine, EPP, PBT, melamine foam plastics, polyester-oles, polyetheroles, nitrotoluene

power & steam (highest supply guarantee with fully redundant operated on-site com-bined cycle-cycle-plant), natural gas, demineralized water, cooling water, compressed air, waste water treatment, hazardous waste incineration and hazardous waste man-agement

GER / Brandenburg

Industriepark Guben

SWG Städtische Werke Guben www.wsg-guben.de


polyester, polyamide 6, PUR power, steam, N2, compressed air, natural gas, commercial water, municipal water, cooling water, waste water treatment

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Austria Chemiepark Linz Borealis Agrolinz Melamine; Borealis Polyolefine, Borealis L.A.T. www.borealisgroup.com


NH3, Urea, H2, HNO3, N2, melamine electricity, natural gas, steam (25 bar), cooling water, sewer

Austria Metadynea Industriepark

Metadynea Austria www.metadynea.com


methanol, formalin, melamine, urea, phe-nol, sulfuric acid and caustic soda

10 bar steam, cooling and municipal water, electricity, nitrogen, natural gas and pres-surized air


Industrial Park Weinheim

Freudenberg Service www.industriepark-weinheim.de

80 hectares / for devel-opment: 5 hectares

processing of plastics, rubber and metals electricity, local heating/ steam, warm & cold water, deionised water, compressed air, natural gas


Industriepark Willstätt

B.I.W. www.industriepark-willstaett.de

45 hectares / 7 hec-tares

all common current process media power, steam, hot, warm & cold water, cooling water, compressed air, nitrogen, natural gas


Infrarhod Indus-trial Park of Rhodia Acetow Freiburg

Rhodia Acetow www.infrarhod.com www.rhodia-acetow.com

53 hectares, available: 17 hectares

products of cellulose acetate, nylon 6.6, technical polyamide

cogeneration plant located on the site; electricity, steam, drinking water, cooling water, cold water, deionised water, compressed air, nitrogene, natural gas, waste water treat-ment and waste disposal


Parkone Gren-zach

DSM Nutritional Products www.parkone.de

260.000 m² / 30.000 m² basic chemicals and specialities electricity, steam, coolant (ammonia/brine (-25°C)) water (different qualities), com-pressed air, natural gas, technical gases (nitrogen, hydrogen), waste water treatment, preliminary treatment (Loprox), waste management

GER / Bavaria

Gendorf Chemi-cal Park

Infraserv Gendorf www.infraserv.gendorf.de www.gendorf.de


salt, ethylene, fatty acids and fatty alcohols, PTFE, TFE, flourchemicals, NaOH, Cl, EDC, VC, EO, glycols, tensids, amines, N2, O2, CO2, argon and other noble gases, water (differ-ent qualities)

gas and steam plant, ac, dc, steam, natural gas, compressed air, O2; N2; H2; cooling wa-ter, compressed air, deionised water waste water treatment waste incineration waste disposal management

GER / Bavaria

Industrial Park Gersthofen

MVV Industriepark Gersthofen www.mvv-igs.de


basic chemicals and specialities, N2, resins, NaOH, HCl, chloroacetic acid

ac, dc, steam, cooling water, demineralized water, compressed air, load management

GER /Bavaria Industrie Center Obernburg

Mainsite www.mainsite.de

175 hectares, 65 hec-tares production area, 16 hectares expansion area, 32 hectares in de-velopment

viscose technical and textile, polyamide, polyester, sulfonated polyethersulfone, plas-tics, nonwovens, various medical products, microporous polymers and additives, metal powders, metal working, hightech-analyt-ics, logistics, research institute of univ. of appl. Sciences Aschaffenburg on site

On-site grid systems for electricity, steam, drinking water, cooling water, deionised wa-ter, compressed air, cooling power, nitrogen and natural gas. Waste management sys-tem, waste water treatment facility, sewage sludge recycling

GER / Berlin berlinbiotech-park

berlinbiotechpark www.berlinbiotechpark.de

62.000 m2 / available: 4.500 m2

biotech center, focus on pharmaceutical production and medical technology

electricity, steam, high purity steam, compressed air, N2, other inert gases, cooling wa-ter, deionised water, ap, WFI

GER / Brandenburg

BASF Schwarzheide GmbH

BASF Schwarzheide www.basf-schwarzheide.de

290 hectares / about 100 hectares

H2,CO, N2, HCl, nitric acid, toluene, chlo-rides, isocyanates, acids, sodium hydroxide, alcohols, ethylene oxide, butane diols, hex-ane diols, propylene oxide, amines, phos-gene, styrene, basic & performance poly-mers, PUR, alkylene oxides, bio-glycerine, EPP, PBT, melamine foam plastics, polyester-oles, polyetheroles, nitrotoluene

power & steam (highest supply guarantee with fully redundant operated on-site com-bined cycle-cycle-plant), natural gas, demineralized water, cooling water, compressed air, waste water treatment, hazardous waste incineration and hazardous waste man-agement

GER / Brandenburg

Industriepark Guben

SWG Städtische Werke Guben www.wsg-guben.de


polyester, polyamide 6, PUR power, steam, N2, compressed air, natural gas, commercial water, municipal water, cooling water, waste water treatment

Clariant Increases Ethylene Oxide Capacity at Gendorf

Specialty Chemicals Company Clariant is expanding the capacity of its ethylene ox-ide (EO) unit at the Gendorf chemical park, Germany. The new facilities are to enable higher production yields, greater process reliability and enhanced product quality. An increase is expected to be available from 2020. The sizeable expansion is to support growth in both developed and emerging

markets. “Clariant continues to invest also in our production network in Europe”, said Christian Kohlpaintner, member of the Ex-ecutive Committee. EO-based specialties support a wide range of industries, such as personal and home care as well as crop solutions. www.clariant.comPi

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French manufacturer Alstom announced that it will provide the world’s largest fleet of fuel cell trains to Fahma, a subsidiary of the Rhine-Main Regional Transit Authority (RMV) in Hesse, Germany. The hydrogen will be supplied in cooperation with Infraserv Höchst, with the filling station being locat-ed on the premises of the Höchst industrial park. The station is planned to be built alongside the current refueling infrastruc-ture for buses and trucks. The new fuel cell-powered vehicles are to replace the old diesel-powered trains on four local passenger routes. “Many of the trains in the state of Hesse are still die-sel-powered because they run on tracks without overhead lines. However, fuel cells are another readily feasible alternative to electrification,” said Hesse’s Transportation Minister Tarek Al-Wazir. “One-third of Hes-se’s greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation.” The federal government is supporting the project by partially subsidiz-ing the refueling station and covering 40% of the extra costs of buying the hydrogen vehicles versus diesel engines. “We as an innovative company are further developing our energy supply concepts and are relying on environmentally friendly energy carri-ers”, said Dr. Joachim Kreysing, Managing Director of Infraserv Höchst. www.industriepark-hoechst.com


Industrial Parks


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GER / Brandenburg

Industriepark Premnitz

Stadt Premnitz www.premnitz.de; Standortmanagement: IPG Infrastruktur- und Projek-tentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH Potsdam, www.ipg-pots-dam.com

115 hectares / 30 hectares industry, 10 hectares trade; ex-tension in planning

polyester, polyamide 6, other recycled plas-tics, products and preliminary products from rayon production, natural gas

power, steam, compressed air, wastewater treatment

GER / Brandenburg

Schwedt/Oder PCK Raffinerie www.pck.de

220 hectares / 80 hectares; expansion: 120 hectares

propane, propylene, butane, fuels, aromatic hydrocarbons, bitumen, S, ETBE

power, steam, water, compressed air, water and wastewater treatment, commercial water, cooling water, biogas

GER /Branden-burg/ Saxony

Industriepark Schwarze Pumpe

ASG Spremberg Zweckverband Industriepark Schwarze Pumpe

720 hectares / 75 hectares, extension in planning

power, brown coal briquet, pulverised lig-nite, fluidised bed lignite, technical gases, paper, plastic, chemicals, metalworking, waste recycling

power (internal grids), steam, natural gas, DH, drinking and industrial water (internal water works), waste water treatment plants

GER / Hesse Griesheim In-dustrial Park (Franfurt- Griesheim)

Infrasite Griesheim www.infrasite-griesheim.com

74 hectares / 40 hectares (large con-nected spaces)

Cl2 by railtanker, H2 and N2 by pipeline biological waste water treatment plant plus activated carbon adsorber for difficult waste water, denitrification, steam, cooling water (river water), natural gas, electricity (ensured electricity coverage from existing infrastructure – free capacity: 63 MVA), compressed air

GER / Hesse Industriepark Höchst

Infraserv Höchst www.industriepark-hoechst.com www.infraserv.com


base chemicals (C2H4, Cl2, H2, N2, O2, H2SO4, SO3, HF, phosphorus chloride, vinyl acetate, aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated and fluorinated hydrocarbons) specialty & fine chemicals (PO-waxes, crotonaldehyde, ket-ene, dimethyl sulfate) pharmaceutical and biotechnological products, biofuel, Polymer-ic and Perfomance Materials

low carbon industrial site with range of waste to energy/combined gas and steam plants at site, circular waste treatment, different recineration plants, waste water treatment plant Network supply : power, steam, natural gas, various cooling media , various grades of water, compressed air, technical gases (different qualities), central utility distribiution

GER / Hesse Industriepark Kalle-Albert, Wiesbaden

Infraserv Wiesbaden / In-fraserv Wiesbaden Technik www.infraserv-wi.de / www.isw-technik.de


Top traffic connection water, rail, highway, Frankfurt airport; highly attractive life qual-ity in the midst of Rhein-Main region; on-site fitness center / Supply: electricity, steam, cooling resources, compressed air, nitrogen, technical gases, natural gas, deion-ized & commercial water, disposal management, bio-based waste water treatment, hazardous material storage, warehousing & logistics, site security & fire brigade & medical department

GER / Hesse Industriepark Wolfgang

Evonik Technology & Infra-structure www.evonik.com

82 hectares / 5.5 hectares

all common energies and utilities, all technical gases

power, steam, natural gas, compressed air, nitrogen, cooling water, drinking water; cer-tified waste management and wastewater treatment

GER / Hesse Standort Behringwerke Marburg

Pharmaserv www.pharmaserv.de

67.4 hectares / 9.4 hectares

biotech center, clear focus on pharmaceutical production

electricity, steam, drinking and cooling water, compressed air, nitrogen, emergency cur-rent, cooling power, gases, waste water neutralisation, management of disposal

GER / Lower Saxony

Industriepark Nienburg

Industriepark Nienburg www.industriepark-nienburg.de


electricity, steam, diff. water qualities natural gas, compressed air, waste water treatment

GER / Lower Saxony

Industriepark Walsrode

Dow Deutschland Anlagengesell schaft


plastics, cellulose and derivatives, acids, al-kalis, alcohols, solvents, wrapping foils

electricity, steam, power by pipeline, water, supply and disposal facilities, waste water treatment

GER / Lower Saxony

Port of Wil-helmshaven

Stadt Wilhelmshaven (Contact) www.wilhelmshaven.de

total: 800 hectares available

PVC, VCM, EDC, different kinds of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, brine, crude oil, nitrogen, oxygen, rare gases, steam, heat

electricity (uniper and engie powerplants), containerterminal, multimodal transport terminal, storage for hazardous goods, freight village, truck service center, waste water treatment in planning: LNG Importterminal Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU)

GER / Lower Saxony

IndustrialPark Lingen

City of Lingen (Ems) www.industriepark-lingen.de

150 hectares new de-velopment zone/ up to 33 hectares in one spot

chemicals of all kinds, especially auxiliaries for the plastics processing industry; man-made fibers, acrylic fiber; supplier fiber and plastic industry

RWE powerplant and site; electricity, steam, natural gas (direct connection to natural gas pipeline), compressed air, water, demineralised water, cooling water, waste water treatment, glass fiber

GER / North Rhine-West-phalia

Chempark Leverkusen

Currenta www.currenta.de

480 hectares / 0,5 - 4 hectares

more than 5,000 chemicals, e.g. Cl2, H2, tolu-ene, benzene, NH3, HNO3, oleum, silicon, water glass, CO

electricity, steam, process water, compressed air, waste water treatment, waste incin-eration, landfill


Industriepark Heinsberg-Ober-bruch

Veolia Industriepark Deutschland www.veolia.de/industriepark

107 hectares / 11 ha GI (industrial usage) 15 ha GE (commercial usage)

all common industrial utilities electricity, natural gas, steam, compressed air, cooling power, various water qualities, demin water, own production of drinking water, own industrial waste water treatment plant


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GER / Brandenburg

Industriepark Premnitz

Stadt Premnitz www.premnitz.de; Standortmanagement: IPG Infrastruktur- und Projek-tentwicklungsgesellschaft mbH Potsdam, www.ipg-pots-dam.com

115 hectares / 30 hectares industry, 10 hectares trade; ex-tension in planning

polyester, polyamide 6, other recycled plas-tics, products and preliminary products from rayon production, natural gas

power, steam, compressed air, wastewater treatment

GER / Brandenburg

Schwedt/Oder PCK Raffinerie www.pck.de

220 hectares / 80 hectares; expansion: 120 hectares

propane, propylene, butane, fuels, aromatic hydrocarbons, bitumen, S, ETBE

power, steam, water, compressed air, water and wastewater treatment, commercial water, cooling water, biogas

GER /Branden-burg/ Saxony

Industriepark Schwarze Pumpe

ASG Spremberg Zweckverband Industriepark Schwarze Pumpe

720 hectares / 75 hectares, extension in planning

power, brown coal briquet, pulverised lig-nite, fluidised bed lignite, technical gases, paper, plastic, chemicals, metalworking, waste recycling

power (internal grids), steam, natural gas, DH, drinking and industrial water (internal water works), waste water treatment plants

GER / Hesse Griesheim In-dustrial Park (Franfurt- Griesheim)

Infrasite Griesheim www.infrasite-griesheim.com

74 hectares / 40 hectares (large con-nected spaces)

Cl2 by railtanker, H2 and N2 by pipeline biological waste water treatment plant plus activated carbon adsorber for difficult waste water, denitrification, steam, cooling water (river water), natural gas, electricity (ensured electricity coverage from existing infrastructure – free capacity: 63 MVA), compressed air

GER / Hesse Industriepark Höchst

Infraserv Höchst www.industriepark-hoechst.com www.infraserv.com


base chemicals (C2H4, Cl2, H2, N2, O2, H2SO4, SO3, HF, phosphorus chloride, vinyl acetate, aromatic hydrocarbons, chlorinated and fluorinated hydrocarbons) specialty & fine chemicals (PO-waxes, crotonaldehyde, ket-ene, dimethyl sulfate) pharmaceutical and biotechnological products, biofuel, Polymer-ic and Perfomance Materials

low carbon industrial site with range of waste to energy/combined gas and steam plants at site, circular waste treatment, different recineration plants, waste water treatment plant Network supply : power, steam, natural gas, various cooling media , various grades of water, compressed air, technical gases (different qualities), central utility distribiution

GER / Hesse Industriepark Kalle-Albert, Wiesbaden

Infraserv Wiesbaden / In-fraserv Wiesbaden Technik www.infraserv-wi.de / www.isw-technik.de


Top traffic connection water, rail, highway, Frankfurt airport; highly attractive life qual-ity in the midst of Rhein-Main region; on-site fitness center / Supply: electricity, steam, cooling resources, compressed air, nitrogen, technical gases, natural gas, deion-ized & commercial water, disposal management, bio-based waste water treatment, hazardous material storage, warehousing & logistics, site security & fire brigade & medical department

GER / Hesse Industriepark Wolfgang

Evonik Technology & Infra-structure www.evonik.com

82 hectares / 5.5 hectares

all common energies and utilities, all technical gases

power, steam, natural gas, compressed air, nitrogen, cooling water, drinking water; cer-tified waste management and wastewater treatment

GER / Hesse Standort Behringwerke Marburg

Pharmaserv www.pharmaserv.de

67.4 hectares / 9.4 hectares

biotech center, clear focus on pharmaceutical production

electricity, steam, drinking and cooling water, compressed air, nitrogen, emergency cur-rent, cooling power, gases, waste water neutralisation, management of disposal

GER / Lower Saxony

Industriepark Nienburg

Industriepark Nienburg www.industriepark-nienburg.de


electricity, steam, diff. water qualities natural gas, compressed air, waste water treatment

GER / Lower Saxony

Industriepark Walsrode

Dow Deutschland Anlagengesell schaft


plastics, cellulose and derivatives, acids, al-kalis, alcohols, solvents, wrapping foils

electricity, steam, power by pipeline, water, supply and disposal facilities, waste water treatment

GER / Lower Saxony

Port of Wil-helmshaven

Stadt Wilhelmshaven (Contact) www.wilhelmshaven.de

total: 800 hectares available

PVC, VCM, EDC, different kinds of petroleum products, natural gas, coal, brine, crude oil, nitrogen, oxygen, rare gases, steam, heat

electricity (uniper and engie powerplants), containerterminal, multimodal transport terminal, storage for hazardous goods, freight village, truck service center, waste water treatment in planning: LNG Importterminal Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU)

GER / Lower Saxony

IndustrialPark Lingen

City of Lingen (Ems) www.industriepark-lingen.de

150 hectares new de-velopment zone/ up to 33 hectares in one spot

chemicals of all kinds, especially auxiliaries for the plastics processing industry; man-made fibers, acrylic fiber; supplier fiber and plastic industry

RWE powerplant and site; electricity, steam, natural gas (direct connection to natural gas pipeline), compressed air, water, demineralised water, cooling water, waste water treatment, glass fiber


Chempark Leverkusen



more than 5,000 chemicals, e.g. Cl2, H2, tolu-ene, benzene, NH3, HNO3, oleum, silicon, water glass, CO

electricity, steam, process water, compressed air, waste water treatment, waste incin-eration, landfill


Industriepark Heinsberg-Ober-bruch

Veolia Industriepark Deutschland www.veolia.de/industriepark

107 hectares / 11 ha GI (industrial usage) 15 ha GE (commercial usage)

all common industrial utilities electricity, natural gas, steam, compressed air, cooling power, various water qualities, demin water, own production of drinking water, own industrial waste water treatment plant

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Samson and Infraserv Wiesbaden Cooperate in IIoT

Valve engineering company Samson has announced a strategic cooperation with In-fraserv Wiesbaden, which has been operat-ing Kalle-Albert Industrial Park in Germany since 1997. The key goal is to jointly ad-vance an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform that digitally supports the optimi-zation of processes and plant control in medium-sized industrial companies inside and outside the industrial park. “As a devel-oper of industrial sites, Infraserv Wiesbaden operates its own large systems for supply and disposal. This means that they already know, understand and serve the specific needs of the on-site companies that come from many different branches of industry”, said Dr. Andreas Widl, CEO of Samson. www.samsongroup.com

Uniper Investigates Market Interest in LNG Project

Energy company Uniper plans continue the initiative to realize the first LNG import terminal in Germany. The subsidiary LTW investigated the market participants’ inter-est in the LNG terminal project in Wil-helmshaven in a so-called Open Season process in order to conclude non-binding agreements. Within the next three years, the company plans to construct an LNG terminal at Germany’s only deepwater port location and start operations. It is designed as a so-called Floating Storage and Regasifi-cation Unit (FSRU), a technology which can be realized most economically and quickly. The nominal send-out capacity of LNG will be up to 10 billion m3/a. www.uniper.energy


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Castrop-Rauxel Rütgers Germany 100 hectares total area/ 15 hectares

organic base and intermediates, coke prod-ucts, bonding agents for electrode materials

electricity, steam, water networks, waste heat networks


Chempark Dor-magen



in total 2,000 chemicals, e.g. Cl2, H2,CO, tolu-ene, benzene, ethylene, HCN, NH3, propyl-ene, butadien

electricity, steam, refrigeration, process water, waste water treatment, waste incinera-tion, landfill


Chempark Krefeld-Uerding-en



more than 2,000 chemicals, e.g. acetone, benzene, phenol, cyclohexane, bisphenol, CO, Cl2, HNO3

electricity, steam, process water, compressed air, waste water treatment, landfill


Chemiepark Knapsack

Yncoris www.chemiepark-knapsack.de

180 hectares / 25 hectares thereof one connected 16ha plot

organic and inorganic base and intermedi-ate products, Cl- and P-chemistry, NaOH, HCl, H2, PVC, PP, MPC, MPCS, MPE

electricity, steam, compressed air, natural gas, fresh water, oxygen, nitrogen, closed cir-cuit, cooled water, de-mineralized water, 2 waste water treatment plants; gas turbine and waste incineration power plant


Dortmund Deutsche Gasrußwerke www.chemsite.de


carbon black and pigment black as filler materials

electricity, steam, water, compressed air, nitrogen


Evonik Site Lüls-dorf

Evonik Industries www.evonik.com


Caustic potash, caustic soda, hydrogen, chlorine, EDC, potassium carbonate and bi-carbonate, alkoxides pipeline from Shell re-finery: methanol, syngas pipeline from In-fraserv Hoechst: ethylene

electricity, steam, different waterqualities, compressed air, nitrogen


Gelsenkirch-en-Scholven

BP Refining & Petrochemicals www.chemsite.de


ethylene, propylene, C4, argon, benzene, cu-mene, CO2, Syngas, methanol, cyclohexane, PE, PP

electricity, steam, heating gas, nitrogen, compressed air, different water qualities, ex-haust gas and flare system


Industrial Park Dorsten-Marl

Cities Dorsten + Marl based on the initiative of Steag www.industriepark-dorsten-marl.de www.chemsite.de

70 hectares (net)/ 0 hectares

n. a. electricity, waste water treatment


Industriepark Düsseldorf Holthausen

Henkel www.henkel.com


ethylene- und propylene-oxide, chlorometh-ane, hydrogen, MDI, TDI, various solvents

electricity, steam, combustion of waste material and waste air, wastewater treatment


Industriepark Köln-Merkenich

Xervon Instandhaltung www.xervon-instandhaltung.com


chemical products, PVC, E-dispersions electricity, steam, waste water treatment, cooling water, compresssed air, natural gas, N2, demineralised water, different water qualities, supply and disposal networks


Marl Chemical Park



comprehensive materials flow system, nu-merous organic and inorganic base and in-termediate products, polymers, C2, C3, C4, chlorine, H2

electricity, steam, water, cooling power, compressed air, waste water treatment, haz-ardous waste incineration, supply and disposal networks

GER / Rhine-land-Palati-nate

BASF Verbund site Lud-wigshafen

BASF www.basf.com www.sitemarketing.basf.com

1,000 hectares / 50 hectares

comprehensive production verbund, organic and inorganic base and intermediate prod-ucts (total 8,000)

steam, electric power (combined cycle power stations), waste treatment, recycling, riv-er and municipal water, demineralized water, gases like O2, N2, CO, CO2

GER / Saxo-ny-Anhalt

Agro-Chemie Park Piesteritz

SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz www.skwp.de


ammonia, urea,nitric acid, melamine, bio-diesel, N2O4, CO2-liquid, tomatoes

electricity, natural gas, steam, industrial and drinking water, compressed air, N2, waste water treatment, sludge dumpsite, CO2, Power station


Chemical and Industrial Park Zeitz

Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft [email protected] www.industriepark-zeitz.de


nitric acid, adipic acid, cyclohexanol, basic oils, wheat starch, adhesives, special waxes, bio natural gas

electricity, natural gas, steam, cooling- and service water, demineralized water, fire fighting water, drinking water, municipal- and industrial waste water pre- and treat-ment, external acceptance of wastewater, condensate purification, H2 by pipeline, steam ( in coordination with operator), renewable energies


Chemical Site Leuna

Infraleuna www.infraleuna.de


syngas, methanol, refinery products, sulfur polyamide 6 and 6.6, H2O2, H2SO4, amines, technical gases, surfactants, DMF, acetone, phenol, cyclohexanone, caprolactam, PE waxes, chlorine, epichlorohydrin, epoxy res-ins, HCl, NaOH, latex dispersions, pigments, bio-based carboxylic acids etc., ammonia, ethane, ethylene, propylene, polymers, car-boxyl acid, alcohols, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, potassium sulfate, hydrogen sulfide, cross-linked site

electricity, steam, compressed air, crude oil, natural gas, water supply, waste water treatment, deionised water, cooling water, chilled water, technical gases (Linde), etc.


Industrial Parks


Country / State




Castrop-Rauxel Rütgers Germany 100 hectares total area/ 15 hectares

organic base and intermediates, coke prod-ucts, bonding agents for electrode materials

electricity, steam, water networks, waste heat networks


Chempark Dor-magen



in total 2,000 chemicals, e.g. Cl2, H2,CO, tolu-ene, benzene, ethylene, HCN, NH3, propyl-ene, butadien

electricity, steam, refrigeration, process water, waste water treatment, waste incinera-tion, landfill


Chempark Krefeld-Uerding-en



more than 2,000 chemicals, e.g. acetone, benzene, phenol, cyclohexane, bisphenol, CO, Cl2, HNO3

electricity, steam, process water, compressed air, waste water treatment, landfill


Chemiepark Knapsack

Yncoris www.chemiepark-knapsack.de

180 hectares / 25 hectares thereof one connected 16ha plot

organic and inorganic base and intermedi-ate products, Cl- and P-chemistry, NaOH, HCl, H2, PVC, PP, MPC, MPCS, MPE

electricity, steam, compressed air, natural gas, fresh water, oxygen, nitrogen, closed cir-cuit, cooled water, de-mineralized water, 2 waste water treatment plants; gas turbine and waste incineration power plant


Dortmund Deutsche Gasrußwerke www.chemsite.de


carbon black and pigment black as filler materials

electricity, steam, water, compressed air, nitrogen


Evonik Site Lüls-dorf



Caustic potash, caustic soda, hydrogen, chlorine, EDC, potassium carbonate and bi-carbonate, alkoxides pipeline from Shell re-finery: methanol, syngas pipeline from In-fraserv Hoechst: ethylene

electricity, steam, different waterqualities, compressed air, nitrogen


Gelsenkirch-en-Scholven

BP Refining & Petrochemicals www.chemsite.de


ethylene, propylene, C4, argon, benzene, cu-mene, CO2, Syngas, methanol, cyclohexane, PE, PP

electricity, steam, heating gas, nitrogen, compressed air, different water qualities, ex-haust gas and flare system


Industrial Park Dorsten-Marl

Cities Dorsten + Marl based on the initiative of Steag www.industriepark-dorsten-marl.de www.chemsite.de

70 hectares (net)/ 0 hectares

n. a. electricity, waste water treatment


Industriepark Düsseldorf Holthausen

Henkel www.henkel.com


ethylene- und propylene-oxide, chlorometh-ane, hydrogen, MDI, TDI, various solvents

electricity, steam, combustion of waste material and waste air, wastewater treatment


Industriepark Köln-Merkenich

Xervon Instandhaltung www.xervon-instandhaltung.com


chemical products, PVC, E-dispersions electricity, steam, waste water treatment, cooling water, compresssed air, natural gas, N2, demineralised water, different water qualities, supply and disposal networks


Marl Chemical Park



comprehensive materials flow system, nu-merous organic and inorganic base and in-termediate products, polymers, C2, C3, C4, chlorine, H2

electricity, steam, water, cooling power, compressed air, waste water treatment, haz-ardous waste incineration, supply and disposal networks

GER / Rhine-land-Palati-nate

BASF Verbund site Lud-wigshafen

BASF www.basf.com www.sitemarketing.basf.com


comprehensive production verbund, organic and inorganic base and intermediate prod-ucts (total 8,000)

steam, electric power (combined cycle power stations), waste treatment, recycling, riv-er and municipal water, demineralized water, gases like O2, N2, CO, CO2


Agro-Chemie Park Piesteritz

SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz www.skwp.de


ammonia, urea,nitric acid, melamine, bio-diesel, N2O4, CO2-liquid, tomatoes

electricity, natural gas, steam, industrial and drinking water, compressed air, N2, waste water treatment, sludge dumpsite, CO2, Power station


Chemical and Industrial Park Zeitz

Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft [email protected] www.industriepark-zeitz.de


nitric acid, adipic acid, cyclohexanol, basic oils, wheat starch, adhesives, special waxes, bio natural gas

electricity, natural gas, steam, cooling- and service water, demineralized water, fire fighting water, drinking water, municipal- and industrial waste water pre- and treat-ment, external acceptance of wastewater, condensate purification, H2 by pipeline, steam ( in coordination with operator), renewable energies


Chemical Site Leuna

Infraleuna www.infraleuna.de


syngas, methanol, refinery products, sulfur polyamide 6 and 6.6, H2O2, H2SO4, amines, technical gases, surfactants, DMF, acetone, phenol, cyclohexanone, caprolactam, PE waxes, chlorine, epichlorohydrin, epoxy res-ins, HCl, NaOH, latex dispersions, pigments, bio-based carboxylic acids etc., ammonia, ethane, ethylene, propylene, polymers, car-boxyl acid, alcohols, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, potassium sulfate, hydrogen sulfide, cross-linked site

electricity, steam, compressed air, crude oil, natural gas, water supply, waste water treatment, deionised water, cooling water, chilled water, technical gases (Linde), etc.

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Ineos Phenol to Build World Scale Cumene Unit at Marl

Ineos Phenol has broken ground at its world-scale cumene investment in Marl, Germany. The new 750,000 tonnes unit is scheduled to be completed in 2021. Its loca-tion is to help optimise the efficiency of the plant by integrating raw materials from the refinery and cracker complex. The site also benefits from the Marl harbour waterway connection. “Today’s ground- breaking cere-mony is also a sign for the unique ‘Verbund’ structure of our chemical industry in North Rhine-Westphalia. The ‘Verbund’ makes an important contribution to the attractive-ness of chemistry in the northern Ruhr area and to the increasing competitiveness of our industry”, said Andreas Pinkwart, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister of Economic Affairs. www.ineos.com

Port of Antwerp to Produce Green Methanol

A pilot project at the port of Antwerp aims to produce 4,000 to 8,000 t/a of sustainable methanol from waste CO2. “The waste CO2 will be collected by a new process called Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) in which at least some of the CO2 emissions are recovered. This CO2 is then combined with hydrogen generated on a sustainable basis using green energy in a new electroly-sis plant”, explains Didier Van Osselaer, project manager at Port of Antwerp. The companies Engie, Oiltanking, Indaver, Vlaamse Milieuholding (VMH) and Helm-Proman have declared their support for the project. The port of Antwerp uses around 300,000 t/a of methanol for chemi-cal processes and fuel production. www.portofantwerp.com


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Chemiepark Bitter-feld-Wolfen

Chemiepark Bitterfeld Wolfen www.chemiepark.de


HCl, NaOH, Cl2, H2, PCl3, Cl- and P- chemistry, trichlorsilane, tetrachlorsilane, organic and inorganic products, base chemicals, speciali-ties and intermediate products

electricity, steam, natural and technical gas, compressed air, drinking and industrial water, waste water treatment plant with sewage sludge incineration


Industriepark Solvay Bernburg

www.solvay.de/bernburg 40 hectares / 4 hectares

H2, brine, limestone, burnt lime, lime slurry, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, hydrogen peroxide, phosphoric acid (ultra pure grade)

electricity, steam, cooling water, drinking water, fire fighting water, compressed air, natural gas


ValuePark Dow Olefinverbund www.dow.com/valuepark

650 hectares (150 hec-tares there of Value Park)/ on inquiry

LLDPE, LDPE, PP, PS,EPS, PET, cracker prod-ucts, synthetic rubber, hydrocarbon resins, acrylates, Chlorine, EDC, VC, NaOH, PVC, compounds, plastic films

power, steam, natural gas, river water, cooling water, demineralized water, pressurized air, nitrogen, technical gases, waste water treatment, waste incineration

GER / Schleswig- Holstein

Covestro Indus-trial Park Brunsbüttel

Covestro Deutschland www.covestro.com


H2,Cl2, HNO3, oleum, ethylene, toluene, ni-trobenzene, formaldehyde, aniline

electricity, steam, refrigeration, compressed air, process water, waste water treatment, waste incineration

GER / Thuringia

Chemie- Industrie-Park Bleicherode

Deusa International www.deusa.de

5,3 hectares / 2,0 hectares

magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium chloride, brines, special brines

electricity, heat, water, steam, sewer system, disposal

GER/ Thuringia

Industriepark Rudolstadt/ Schwarza

LEG Thüringen www.leg-thueringen.de


monomer, polymer, polyamide 6, polyamide 6.6, recycled material, paper, lyocell, natural fibre materials, biodiesel

completely integrated compound of chemical products / power plant, steam, hot wa-ter, cooling water, compressed air / natural gas, nitrogen, deionised water, drinking water, industrial water / waste water treatmentplant, ring of fire extinguishing sys-tems, mud disposal site, wastewater network

GER / Thuringia

Pharmapark Jena

Pharmapark Jena www.pharmapark-jena.de

2 hectares Pharmapark Jena offers companies in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as well as research institutions high-quality in-ner-city areas with a sector-specific infra-structure

electricity, steam, drinking and cooling water, compressed air, gases, management of disposal, hazardous materials warehouse

Netherlands Chemelot Chemelot DSM Netherlands Sitech Services Utility Support Group (USG) Brightlands Chemelot Campus

800 hectares / 80-100 hectares

ammonia, naphtha, caprolactam, mela-mine, fertilizers, acrylonitril, polyamide, PE, PP, PP compounds EPDM, Plastomers, PVC, SMA, PVB, liquid CO2, portfolio of naph-tacracker products, chemically recycled PET

electricity, natural gas, steam, nitrogen, hydrogen, water purification plants and waste water treatment; treatment of solid and liquid waste; industrial cleaning

Netherlands Chemie Park Delfzijl

Akzo Nobel Industrial Chemi-cals www.chemieparkdelfzijl.nl

100 hectares / (adjacent) 50 hectares

salt, NaHCO3, NaOH, Cl2, HCl, NaOCl, H2, CH3COOCl, ethyleneamines, aramid poly-mer, CPVC, (bio-) methanol, ureaformalde-hyde resin, Glycerine, CaCl2

co-gen power plant electricity 95 MW, steam 375 tons, cooling water, demin water, compressed air, nitrogen, instrument air, water treatment salt and sweet water

Netherlands Port of Rotterdam

Port of Rotterdam www.portofrotterdam.com

industrial sites at port: 6,000 hectares. (Petro-) chemical industry: 3,298 hectares / for chemical industry: 200 hectares at Maasvlakte 2

great variety of petrochemical and chemical products

power grid, natural gas grid, industrial water grid, drinking water grid, demin water grid, steam exchange grid, heat grid, waste incineration, waste water treatment, etc.

Switzerland Getec Park.Swiss Getec Park.Swiss www.getec-energyservices.com

50 hectares / 14 hectacres

HCl, H2SO4, NaOH, HCl-gas, N2, H2, technical gases, chlorosulfuric acid, thionyl chloride, peroxide

electricity, natural gas, industrial water, drinking water, softened water, steam 5, 6.5, 12 and 15 bar, high temperature water (180 °C) , hot water (55 °C), glycol refrigeration (-24 °C), flake ice, control-compressed air (5 bar), factory-compressed air (2 bar), waste water pretreatment, waste water treatment plant, incineration of gaseous, liquid and solid waste, regeneration of solvents, retention basin

Switzerland Pharmapark Siegfried, Zofingen

Siegfried www.siegfried.ch

60 hectacres / 13 hectacres

all common current process media electricity, natural gas, industrial water, drinking water, steam, etc.


Industrial Parks


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Chemiepark Bitter-feld-Wolfen

Chemiepark Bitterfeld Wolfen www.chemiepark.de


HCl, NaOH, Cl2, H2, PCl3, Cl- and P- chemistry, trichlorsilane, tetrachlorsilane, organic and inorganic products, base chemicals, speciali-ties and intermediate products

electricity, steam, natural and technical gas, compressed air, drinking and industrial water, waste water treatment plant with sewage sludge incineration


Industriepark Solvay Bernburg

www.solvay.de/bernburg 40 hectares / 4 hectares

H2, brine, limestone, burnt lime, lime slurry, soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, hydrogen peroxide, phosphoric acid (ultra pure grade)

electricity, steam, cooling water, drinking water, fire fighting water, compressed air, natural gas


ValuePark Dow Olefinverbund www.dow.com/valuepark

650 hectares (150 hec-tares there of Value Park)/ on inquiry

LLDPE, LDPE, PP, PS,EPS, PET, cracker prod-ucts, synthetic rubber, hydrocarbon resins, acrylates, Chlorine, EDC, VC, NaOH, PVC, compounds, plastic films

power, steam, natural gas, river water, cooling water, demineralized water, pressurized air, nitrogen, technical gases, waste water treatment, waste incineration

GER / Schleswig- Holstein

Covestro Indus-trial Park Brunsbüttel

Covestro Deutschland www.covestro.com


H2,Cl2, HNO3, oleum, ethylene, toluene, ni-trobenzene, formaldehyde, aniline

electricity, steam, refrigeration, compressed air, process water, waste water treatment, waste incineration

GER / Thuringia

Chemie- Industrie-Park Bleicherode

Deusa International www.deusa.de

5,3 hectares / 2,0 hectares

magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, sodium chloride, brines, special brines

electricity, heat, water, steam, sewer system, disposal

GER/ Thuringia

Industriepark Rudolstadt/ Schwarza

LEG Thüringen www.leg-thueringen.de


monomer, polymer, polyamide 6, polyamide 6.6, recycled material, paper, lyocell, natural fibre materials, biodiesel

completely integrated compound of chemical products / power plant, steam, hot wa-ter, cooling water, compressed air / natural gas, nitrogen, deionised water, drinking water, industrial water / waste water treatmentplant, ring of fire extinguishing sys-tems, mud disposal site, wastewater network

GER / Thuringia

Pharmapark Jena

Pharmapark Jena www.pharmapark-jena.de

2 hectares Pharmapark Jena offers companies in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries as well as research institutions high-quality in-ner-city areas with a sector-specific infra-structure

electricity, steam, drinking and cooling water, compressed air, gases, management of disposal, hazardous materials warehouse

Netherlands Chemelot Chemelot DSM Netherlands Sitech Services Utility Support Group (USG) Brightlands Chemelot Campus

800 hectares / 80-100 hectares

ammonia, naphtha, caprolactam, mela-mine, fertilizers, acrylonitril, polyamide, PE, PP, PP compounds EPDM, Plastomers, PVC, SMA, PVB, liquid CO2, portfolio of naph-tacracker products, chemically recycled PET

electricity, natural gas, steam, nitrogen, hydrogen, water purification plants and waste water treatment; treatment of solid and liquid waste; industrial cleaning

Netherlands Chemie Park Delfzijl

Akzo Nobel Industrial Chemi-cals www.chemieparkdelfzijl.nl

100 hectares / (adjacent) 50 hectares

salt, NaHCO3, NaOH, Cl2, HCl, NaOCl, H2, CH3COOCl, ethyleneamines, aramid poly-mer, CPVC, (bio-) methanol, ureaformalde-hyde resin, Glycerine, CaCl2

co-gen power plant electricity 95 MW, steam 375 tons, cooling water, demin water, compressed air, nitrogen, instrument air, water treatment salt and sweet water

Netherlands Port of Rotterdam

Port of Rotterdam www.portofrotterdam.com

industrial sites at port: 6,000 hectares. (Petro-) chemical industry: 3,298 hectares / for chemical industry: 200 hectares at Maasvlakte 2

great variety of petrochemical and chemical products

power grid, natural gas grid, industrial water grid, drinking water grid, demin water grid, steam exchange grid, heat grid, waste incineration, waste water treatment, etc.

Switzerland Getec Park.Swiss Getec Park.Swiss www.getec-energyservices.com

50 hectares / 14 hectacres

HCl, H2SO4, NaOH, HCl-gas, N2, H2, technical gases, chlorosulfuric acid, thionyl chloride, peroxide

electricity, natural gas, industrial water, drinking water, softened water, steam 5, 6.5, 12 and 15 bar, high temperature water (180 °C) , hot water (55 °C), glycol refrigeration (-24 °C), flake ice, control-compressed air (5 bar), factory-compressed air (2 bar), waste water pretreatment, waste water treatment plant, incineration of gaseous, liquid and solid waste, regeneration of solvents, retention basin

Switzerland Pharmapark Siegfried, Zofingen

Siegfried www.siegfried.ch

60 hectacres / 13 hectacres

all common current process media electricity, natural gas, industrial water, drinking water, steam, etc.

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Syngenta to Take Over Novartis Facility in Muttenz

Infrapark Baselland in Switzerland, ac-quired by Getec at the beginning of the year along with the adjacent Novartis chemical park, will soon be home to another interna-tional player: Agricultural company Syngen-ta is to take over Novartis’ production facil-ity. In the acquired plant, the company plans to manufacture new active ingredi-ents and intermediates for crop protection products. To meet the new requirements, the production building will be adapted in 2020 with a scheduled start of production in 2021. The proximity of the plant in Mut-tenz to the company’s technical develop-ment center in Münchwilen will facilitate the step from the pilot plant to large-scale production. www.syngenta.com

Rotterdam: Companies Partner on Green Hydrogen Study

BP, Nouryon and the Port of Rotterdam in-tend to explore the opportunity of making “green hydrogen” via water electrolysis for BP’s refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The refinery currently uses hydrogen made from hydrocarbons to desulphurize prod-ucts. Replacing this entirely with green hy-drogen produced from water using renewa-ble energy could potentially result in a re-duction of 350,000 t/a of CO2 emissions based on current circumstances. The par-ties have signed a memorandum of under-standing to study the feasibility of a 250 MW water electrolysis facility to produce up to 45,000 t/a of green hydrogen using renewable energy. According to the parties’ own statements it would be the largest of its kind in Europe. www.portofrotterdam.com


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Nouryon has made a series of invest-ments at its metal alkyls plant in Rotter-dam, the Netherlands to improve efficiency and increase capacity. The pro-jects are intended to enable the company to continue meeting growing demand from customers in the polymer industry and improve supply reliability in Europe.“The Rotterdam plant has increased pro-

duction capacity by more than 40% in the last three years, and this latest invest-ment series positions us for sustained growth”, said Jeroen Jungschlager, Rotter-dam Plant Manager. The most recent investment includes automating raw material handling, improving overall ef-ficiency and safety at the site by avoiding potential exposure risks. This project also allows for material to be supplied in bulk, which reduces transportation costs. The company further strengthened its positi-on in metal alkyls with the recent acquisi-tion of Zhejiang Friend Chemical Co. It is the largest Chinese producer of triethyl aluminum – a metal alkyl used in the production of high-volume polymers, in-cluding polypropylene and polyethylene. www.nouryon.com

Linde Starts Up Air Separation Units in China

Siemens to Build Power Plant at the Marl Chemical Park

Linde has announced the start-up of two plants to supply oxygen and nitrogen to Taixing Jinyan Chemical Technology (Tai-xing Jinyan) to support the production of ethylene oxide. The plants, with total combined production capacity of 29000 m3/h, will also supply gases to other cus-tomers in Taixing Economic Development Zone, according to Linde ranked sixth amongst China‘s chemical parks. “The start-up of these two ASUs will help build network density in one of China‘s top chemicals and petrochemicals industrial parks in Eastern China”, said Steven Fang, Head of Linde Greater China. “This invest-ment sets a foundation for future expan-sion in the Taixing Economic Develop-ment Zone.” Sun Xiao, Chairman of Ju-

rong Group, said, “We value Linde‘s expe-rience in supply reliability, operational capabilities, and commitment to safety in on-site and pipeline gases supply and look forward to this being the start of a long and successful partnership.” www.linde-engineering.com

Siemens has announced that it will build a combined cycle power plant as a turnkey pro-ject at the Marl Chemical Park in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The order was placed by the specialty chemical group Evonik Industries. The new industrial power plant will consist of two units, each with an electrical capacity of 90 MW, and produce both electricity and process steam for the chemical park. The site’s integra-ted steam network is intended to also supply district heat for about 2,000 homes in the future. The plant’s fuel efficiency is to exceed 90%. With this combined cycle power plant,

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Nouryon Invests in Metal Alkyls Plant at Rotterdam

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INDUSTRIAL PARKS 2020

ADVERTORIALS

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Advertorial

Pharmaceutical and biotechnology compa-nies have stringent requirements in terms of buildings, facil -ities, infrastructure, logistics and the academic and professional environment. The Behringwerke in Mar-burg specialises in precisely these needs, offering optimum conditions and compe-tent service.

The companies at the Behringwerke site have a major advantage: they can focus ex-clusively on the things that are really impor-tant to them – research, development, pro-duction. They don’t have to worry about suitable buildings, laboratory facilities, ener-gy supplies, IT or transport for their samples and products. This infrastructure and much more is offered to them as site services – by owner and operator Pharmaserv.

Marburg has a long tradition of research and development. Nobel Prize winner for medicine Emil von Behring established the “Behringwerk” in 1904 – thus laying the foundation for an international pharmaceu-tical company. The companies at the

Behringwerke site still follow this tradition today.

Synergies in the Industrial ParkThe fact that the Behringwerke specialises in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals makes it attractive to international companies and innovative start-ups alike. This clear focus yields synergies in the areas of production, service, logistics, in the infrastructure and the transfer of knowledge. This applies to both the site itself, the 17 companies employ-ing a total of approx. 5,300 staff and the surrounding area.

High PotentialWith around 25,000 students and 2,500 sci-entists, the Philipps University in Marburg is an important driving force in the region. Marburg is also home to the Max Planck Institute of Terrestrial Microbiology, while the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and Giessen-Friedberg University of Applied Sciences are just half an hour away. The re-

sult is a strong pool of specialist resources that form a perfect complement to the bio-technology park.

One-stop ServicesBesides being located in the perfect environ-ment, the industrial park itself is optimally attuned to the needs of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. Pharmaserv, the owner and operator of the Behringwerke site, employs a staff of about 400 in various specialised areas who offer the services that the companies need, including the expert transport of products and samples, facility management, energy supplies, waste dispos-al, security, occupational medical care, IT and communications. Data security is guar-anteed at all times by a certified computer centre on site.

Laboratories, Offices, Production FacilitiesPharmaserv leases around 100 properties on site, while the facility management services

The Behringwerke in MarburgOptimum Location for Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals

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encompass both old and new buildings, maintenance, infrastructure and supplies. Standard and special laboratories can be constructed exactly to the client's wishes, fin ished shells are available for production and can be adapted in line with the client's requirements, and office space is also avail-able for lease. In all, the Behringwerke en-compasses an area of 67.4 hectares, while the entire industrial park is protected by eight kilometres of fencing and access controls.

Supply NetworksPharmaserv also offers all the supply and waste disposal services a modern industrial centre needs. The electricity and telecom-munications networks alone are each around

Pharmaserv GmbH,Behringwerke Site Operators

CEO:Dr. Martin EggerThomas GörgePeter Michael Weimar

Business areas: ● Services for companies in the biotechnology

and pharmaceutical sectors ● Infrastructure and service ● Pharmaceutical logistics and technology for

companies all over Germany

Infrastructural services: ● Building and facility management ● Data and telecommunications ● Logistics ● Occupational and acute medical care ● Fire prevention and safety service ● Site security ● Passenger and works transport ● Staff parking spaces

Provision of supply networks: ● Electricity and backup power supplies ● Steam ● Compressed air ● Technical gases ● Cold water ● Drinking water ● Waste water, including a central neutralisa-

tion plant

References: ● CSL Behring GmbH ● GSK Vaccines GmbH ● Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

Products GmbH ● Novartis Manufacturing GmbH ● Dockweiler Chemicals GmbH ● Beckman Coulter GmbH

Company Profile

Pharmaserv GmbHEmil-von-Behring-Straße 7635041 MarburgGermanyTel.: +49 6421 [email protected]

Contact

100 kilometres long, then there is a 50-kilo-metre waste water disposal system, 10 kilo-metres for drinking water and up to 5 kilo-metres each for supplying steam, com-pressed air, technical gases and cold water.

Marburg: at the Heart of GermanyFinally, one of the decisive factors for this location is the quality of life that Marburg has to offer. High purchasing power, low unemployment rates, attractive properties and plenty of green areas: Marburg is a city that exudes charm – and its location is also a major draw: at the heart of Germany, easily reached from all directions, just an hour by car from the Rhine-Main conurbation and Frankfurt’s international airport.

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Advertorial

Connecting Chemical Companies A Safe Production Environment for Investors

With an overall surface area of 11 square kilometers, CHEMPARK is one of the larg-est chemical parks in Europe. The three sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen boast an impressive vertical and horizontal range of produc-tion. The portfolio extends from the pro-duction of basic and fine chemicals through to the manufacture and processing of poly-mers, active ingredients and other chemical products. Around one third of total chemi-cal production in North-Rhine Westphalia takes place here. Furthermore, CHEMPARK is home to global players in the Life Scienc-es, agricultural chemistry and materials sectors. More than 48,000 people from 50 countries work at the three sites in over 70 companies. CURRENTA operates and manages CHEMPARK. As a result, the re-search, development and production com-panies in the chemical industry and associ-

ated sectors resident here can focus on their core operations. Whenever the need arises, the chemical park companies can draw on a comprehensive portfolio of around 1,000 professional services. What’s more, all three sites have outstanding trans-port connections. CHEMPARK gives in-vestors access to exclusive networks, such as the substance network (“Verbund”). This makes it possible to harness synergies, op-timize process chains and reduce costs e.g. for utilities, waste management, produc-tion, logistics and other essential activities.

Substance Network (Verbund) – the Driving Force for InvestmentsWith its integrated production facilities, CHEMPARK offers investors a wide range of about 10,000 basic materials and products for further processing and creating added value. The focus is on organic and inorganic

basic chemicals, petrochemical basic materi-als and polymers. A network of utility pipe-lines with a total length of around 1,300 kilometers and an 800-kilometer network of product pipelines provide companies at CHEMPARK with an uninterrupted, safe and reliable supply of utilities in the quanti-ties and qualities required.

Opportunities for Future-oriented Sectors of IndustryIn addition, the three chemical sites man-aged by CURRENTA are connected to the European pipeline system for naphtha, natu-ral gas, ethylene and other petrochemical products. From here, around 350 million consumers can be reached within one day´s journey by truck. CHEMPARK is connected via waterways, railways and freeways and is within easy reach of the international air-ports of Cologne-Bonn and Dusseldorf.

The CHEMPARK and the companies based there must intermesh perfectly to generate maximum synergy effects that extend far beyond those offered by plug&play solutions.

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Company Profile

Currenta GmbH & Co. OHGDr Regina Schade-LehnCHEMPARK51368 Leverkusen, GermanyTel. +49 (0)214 30-72415Mobile +49 (0)175 30-72415E-mail: [email protected]

Contact

It was at today’s CHEMPARK sites that some of the global players in life sciences, agricultural chemistry and material sectors took their first steps. For example innovative materials con-nect the three CHEMPARK sites in the Rhine-land. Polycarbonates, polyurethanes and butyl rubbers were invented here. CHEMPARK is still home to facilities and know-how enabling their further development, production and ac-companying analysis – activities that make up a core area of its expertise. Another of CHEMPARK’s strengths is the manufacture of silicones and pigments.

CHEMPARK Leverkusen is one of the world’s most versatile locations for the chemical indus-try, producing more than 5,000 chemicals across an area of 480 hectares. For instance, components for 9 out of 10 product groups used by the automotive industry across the globe are produced at CHEMPARK. It is primari-ly home to manufacturers of inorganic and or-ganic products, dyestuffs, polyurethanes, rub-bers and precursors for pharmaceuticals. (Available plots: 0.5 to 4 hectares)

Across an area of 360 hectares, CHEMPARK Dormagen offers a wealth of opportunities for companies in the chemical industry. Manufac-turers of crop protection agents, plastics, rub-bers (tires), polymers (insulating materials, paint components, adhesive components) and organic intermediates are represented at the site, which boasts direct links with the petro-chemical industry. (Available plots: 0.5 to 6 hectares) The companies based in CHEMPARK Krefeld-Uerdingen produce around 2,000 chemicals, primarily polyurethanes, white and color pig-ments and intermediates for crop protection agents, fragrances and flavors. One of the site’s best-known products is the polycarbonate Makrolon®. Covering an area of 260 hectares, the site is home to the world’s largest produc-tion volume of inorganic pigments. (Available plots: 0.5 to 20 hectares)

Strengths of the Three Sites

Beside the chemical industry, the CHEMPARK sites offer exceptional oppor-tunities for other branches. The combina-tion of a very safe production environment and highly skilled services and workers makes it also very attractive for investors coming from sectors such as alternative en-ergies, electric mobility, green chemistry, polymer electronics, recycling, storage tech-nologies, structural materials and water technologies.

Prospects for Companies that Look AheadThe CHEMPARK structure was created sys-tematically with a view to generating syner-gy effects. The task now is to further develop

the network to make it future-proof and enable other companies to share in its bene-fits. Stamina and a good eye for suitable services and companies are the key to mak-ing CHEMPARK Europe’s most attractive investment location for the chemical indus-try and its associated sectors.

Companies at CHEMPARK can focus on their core operations thanks to a high safety level. The complete operation of site fire departments, including, for example, the GTLF2 engine (shown on the right) that can fight fires with up to 10,000 liters per minute, is just one element of a highly developed safety culture that has evolved here over many decades and is managed today by CURRENTA.

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Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen GmbHDr. Michael Polk, Managing DirectorPatrice Heine, Managing DirectorZörbiger Straße 22D – 06749 Bitterfeld-WolfenPhone: +49 (0)3493 / 72779Telefax: +49 (0)3493 / 72817E-Mail: [email protected]: www.chemiepark.de

Chemical Site Schwarzheide

The chemical site Schwarzheide offers inves-tors outstanding benefits including know-how and skills, speed and competitive con-ditions. Located in the south of Branden-burg the site represents a business in the chemical sector of European standard. BASF Schwarzheide is a fully owned subsidiary of the leading global player BASF.

This chemical site is one of the biggest production sites of the BASF group in Eu-rope and one of the biggest chemical sites in East Germany. More than 1.8 bn Euros have been invested since 1990. As a result, this site offers a modern infrastructure, which provides highly convenient conditions for investors in the chemical and plastics indus-try. Thanks to our significant treatment of land, the creation of instantly usable proper-ties and the support by professional and customer focused on-site experts, invest-ments can be realized in a minimal time frame.

The clients benefit from the site’s central location between the cities of Berlin and Dresden as a convenient connection between

Eastern and Western Europe. Also the direct motorway access, the connection to the Ger-man Railway network (Deutsche Bahn) and the intermodal rail terminal of Bertschi offer excellent logistic connections. Investors who settle on BASF site in Schwarz heide can uti-lize the comprehensive know-how and skills of the global chemical company BASF as well as a network of industrial plants and research facilities within the region. This results in synergies and cost benefits.

BASF Schwarzheide GmbHJürgen Fuchs, Chairman of the BoardAndreas Seide, Site MarketingSchipkauer Straße 1D – 01986 SchwarzheidePhone: +49 (0) 35752 / 62489E-Mail: [email protected]: www.basf-schwarzheide.de

Leuna Chemical Complex

The Leuna Chemical Complex is synony-mous with dynamic development, innova-tion, and efficiency. Since the introduction of the market economy in the former East Germany in 1990, both international corpo-rations and medium-sized companies have invested over 6.5 billion Euros in the Leuna Chemical Complex. Today, Leuna is one of the top addresses for modern chemistry in Europe.

There is a very diverse range of products made in Leuna reflecting the multilayered production profile of the complex. A highly flexible and efficient infrastructure permits traditional mass chemistry as well as special-ty chemistry, which is increasingly becom-

Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen

Covering 1,200 hectares, Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen is the largest open indus-trial site for chemical and pharmaceutical companies in Europe, located in between the nation’s capital Berlin and its most dy-namic region Halle/Leipzig. The site is today characterized by an industry focussing on fine and specialty chemicals as well as phar-maceuticals.

Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen is home to over 70 manufacturing companies, from global players like DOW, Bayer and Heraeus to various medium sized “hidden champi-ons”. More than 250 service companies on-site provide a wide range of competitive priced services like maintenance or waste disposal and let the manufacturing compa-nies focus on their core competencies.

Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen offers in-vestors ideal conditions for successful growth and cost minimization: 120 hectares of burden-free real estate, a modernized plug & play infrastructure, free market ac-cess to all services, an integrated feedstock based on inorganic chemicals – chlorine,

hydrochloric acid, silicon tetrachloride, hydrogen, nitrogen and sodium hydroxide – utilities like water supply, wastewater disposal, electricity, natural gas and process steam, logistics as well as experienced workers.

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Five of Eastern Germany’s chemical site operators – BASF Schwarzheide GmbH, Chemiepark Bitterfeld-Wolfen GmbH, DOW Olefinverbund GmbH, InfraLeuna GmbH and Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbH – have joined forces to create CeChemNet (Central European Chemical Network). The part-nership is complemented by the participation of the north-east regional association of the Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. (“German chemical industry association”). The different chemical sites are characterized by specific areas of expertise that have arisen from the different privatization models and the transformation process in the chemical indus-try in Eastern Germany. All operating companies are distin-guished by a special professional competence in dealing with complex restructuring processes as well as highly individual-ized performance spectra and site conditions. Also of particu-

lar note is the interlinking of the different sites and compa-nies through a complex feedstock integration of pipelines and logistics networks. Within the framework of CeChemNet the partners follow an objective of developing the existing chemi-cal sites further and to increase their competitiveness while safeguarding and creating jobs. Existing value chains are opti-mized together in terms of downstream industries. Chemical site networking is intensified within the feedstock networks. CeChemNet provides a basis for mutual experience exchange and contact management in the region and with national and international partners. Since the mid 1990s, more than 600 businesses have settled, more than 17 billion Euros have been invested and more than 30,000 jobs have been created. www.cechemnet.de

CeChemNet – Central European Chemical Network

ing the focus of many companies. Integra-tion with the refinery in Leuna and the su-pra-regional pipeline network ensures the advantageous supply of essential raw materi-als. Research institutions on-site have flexi-ble facilities ideal for the development of highly specialized products.

InfraLeuna’s comprehensive range of ac-tivities encompasses the provision of steam, electricity, fresh water, and drinking water, as well as wastewater disposal and other services. Complex logistic solutions includ-ing container storage for hazardous goods are also offered. InfraLeuna is owned exclu-sively by on-site companies who operate their own plants on the complex. The focus at all times is on the business success of the customers as well as the future development of the complex as a whole.

Companies on the complex benefit from an excellent infrastructure as well as a highly developed and complex feedstock integra-tion that promotes synergy effects. To sup-port and grow this network, several on-site companies like ADDINOL, ALBER-DINGK BOLEY, Aurora, DOMO, LEU-NA-Harze, Linde, TOTAL, and InfraLeuna itself have recently invested some EURO 500 Mio. in plant expansions, new plants, and infrastructural improvements.

InfraLeuna GmbHDr. Christof Günther, CEOAm Haupttor, D – 06237 LeunaPhone:+49 (0) 3461 / 430Telefax: +49 (0) 3461 / 434290E-Mail: [email protected]: www.infraleuna.de

Chemical and Industrial Park of Zeitzone of Germany’s smallest but fastest mov-ing-forward chemical parks, the “Chemical and Industrial Park of Zeitz”.

Manufacturers such as Italy’s Radici Chimica (adipic acid and cyclohexanol), US Puraglobe (base oils), Ukraine’s Inter-starch (industrial starch), and home-grown Munzing (micronized waxes), Deurex (oil and chemical adsorbents) and Jowat (adhe-sives) have settled here.

The park provides optimal conditions both for large-scale and family-owned en-terprises. It is managed by “Infra-Zeitz Ser-vicegesellschaft” which also runs the whole waterusage cycle for its clients: processing water, cooling water, deionized water, per-meate, reserve steam, industrial wastewater treatment.

Numerous certifications testify they are coming at outstanding quality, continuous availability, and competitive cost. In-fra-Zeitz’s on-site partners complete the package with services from HR recruitment to certified laboratory tests, and pilot instal-lations.

The park is located only a few minutes car drive to one of Germany’s newcomer places to be, buzzing city of Leipzig.

Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbHMr Arvid Friebe, Managing DirectorHauptstraße 30D – 06729 ElsterauePhone: +49/ 3441/ 84 24 02Telefax: +49/ 3441/ 84 20 29E-Mail: [email protected]: www.industriepark-zeitz.com

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The Chemical- und Industrial Park of Zeitz is an open industrial park aimed at the chemical industry in the South of Saxo-ny-Anhalt.

The companies are mostly medium-sized, owner-managed companies with a focus on “sustainable chemistry”.

About 600 employees are working in these companies. Another 400 employees are working at the site in companies produc-ing energy, industry-related services, as well as research and development.

Due to intensive research in the field of environmental technology, the Chemical and Industrial Park of Zeitz was awarded model site for the removal of soil contami-nations in 2001.

Since its inauguration in the 1930s, the industrial site of Zeitz has been cutting-edge in the German basic chemical industry.

Today, more than 50 highly innovative companies, among them almost 20 manu-facturers from all over the world, gather in

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Why opportunity site? Because – as Bavaria’s largest chemical park – the GENDORF Chemical Park offers peerless opportunities: for investors, employees and the region. This is highlighted by several of the internation-ally most successful chemical companies that have located their facilities here, along with 4,000 highly-qualified employees. They turn the GENDORF Chemical Park into a magnet for the chemical industry. The GENDORF Chemical Park is home to over 30 companies in the fields of basic and spe-cialty chemistry, plastics, energy and indus-trial services. It is operated by InfraServ Gendorf.

Space to GrowAlmost no other chemical park in Germany has comparably large free and expansion space suited for even larger relocations, while also being at a considerable distance to nearby settlements. In addition to the al-ready developed 197 hectare grounds of the

chemical park, there are 50 hectares of ex-pansion space available for further settle-ments of companies – ranging from parcels of a few hundred square meters to contigu-ous space of five hectares or more. And the best part: InfraServ Gendorf will advise companies on the ideal integration and ac-companies investment projects with profes-sional permit management support. This ensures fast-track decision-making and high planning reliability.

Infrastructure for Your SuccessAt the GENDORF Chemical Park, site com-panies can focus on their core business. With 1,000 employees the site operator In-fraServ Gendorf supplies the whole infra-structure and all required site services. Op-erating and investment costs can be dramat-ically reduced by having several companies share the infrastructure and by having the site operator InfraServ Gendorf bundle sup-port processes. This helps to be one step

ahead of competitors: with services and in-frastructure specifically matched to the needs as a chemical company.

InfraServ Gendorf: The Opportunity MultiplierInfraServ Gendorf is in charge of all site-wide functions, for instance the supply of energy and utilities, safety, disposal of waste water and waste, as well as logistics. The chemical park operator also provides additional services that are specifically tai-lored to the chemical industry. These in-clude plant engineering, maintenance, en-vironmental services like measurements and permits as well as IT solutions and (continuing) training.

The Integrated Flow of ProductionThe companies at the GENDORF Chemi-cal Park are tightly linked and therefore conserve raw materials, energy, and costs. The integrated flow of production and ma-

GENDORF Chemical ParkThe Opportunity Site of the Future

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Infrastructure: ● The GENDORF Chemical Park is the largest

Chemical Park in Bavaria ● More than 30 companies located on site ● Approx. 4,000 employees ● 197 hectares in total ● 50 hectares available for expansions or new

industrial settlements ● Economic strength and ecologic benefit by

integrated flow of production

Partners on site: ● Archroma, Clariant, Dyneon (3M), Global

Amines, Gore, Klöckner Pentaplast, Linde, Vinnolit etc.

Site operator: InfraServ Gendorf: ● Employees: approx. 1,000 ● InfraServ Gendorf provides site services and

tailored industrial solutions for chemical and process industry

Services of InfraServ Gendorf: ● Site Solutions: Site services, Energy & Utili-

ties, Disposal, Logistics ● Individual Solutions: Engineering, Mainte-

nance, Environmental Services, IT Services, Training

Energy & utilities: ● Power and natural Gas grid and supply,

steam, fully de-ionized water, cooling water, process water, potable water, compressed and instrument air, nitrogen, oxygen, argon

Region: Site advantage Bavaria ● Strong chemical region

The GENDORF Chemical Park is part of ChemDelta Bavaria. The full bandwidth of the industry is concentrated in this impor-tant European chemical region: mid-sized companies and global players, producers and service providers.

● Concentrated economic powerThe companies in the Bavarian ChemDelta employ a workforce of roughly 20,000 em-ployees who generate more than EUR 10 billion in annual revenues.

● Extensive know-howSpecialized training and continuing educa-tion facilities along with a large number of universities within a range of 100 kilome-ters make the region into a chemical com-petence center of European rank.

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InfraServ GmbH & Co. Gendorf KGTilo Rosenberger-SüßSite CommunicationIndustrieparkstraße 184508 Burgkirchen a. d. AlzGermany

Phone: +49 8679 7-5393Fax: +49 8679 7-3087tilo.rosenberger@infraserv.gendorf.dewww.infraserv.gendorf.dewww.gendorf.de

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terials ensures that products and waste of one operation become the raw materials for another – without lengthy transportation routes. This decreases emissions and waste, and reduces safety and environmental risks. The integrated structure is therefore highly-efficient - not only from a financial point of view, but also in terms of ecologi-cal benefits.

High Investments, Attractive LocationIn GENDORF Chemical Part, site compa-nies are part of a chemical park developing in a dynamic way. Over the last five years, site operator InfraServ Gendorf alone in-vested more than EUR 100 million into a modern site infrastructure. Over the same period, the other site companies additionally invested EUR 250 million into expansions

and upgrades of their facilities. The suffi-cient number of highly-qualified experts in the region was also an important reason for many companies in the chemical park to increasingly locate research and develop-ment activities in Gendorf.

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The acquisition of the two industrial parks outside of Basel by GETEC and the integra-tion of the two directly adjacent areas enables the competitive position of the location to be improved by increasing service efficiency and quality as well as greater flexibility.

Through the acquisition of Infrapark Baselland AG and its activities as well as the production and infrastructure facilities of Novartis by the energy service provider GETEC at the beginning of 2019, a new and diversified industrial park, GETEC PARK.SWISS AG, with economic significance for the entire region was created. It will further increase the competitiveness of GETEC PARK.SWISS AG as a hub for the chemical and life sciences industry and to create better growth opportunities for new companies operating on the site.

The expanded chemical and life sciences park can provide the industry with 50 hec-tares of outstanding developed real estate. The site is ideally located from a logistics point of view: direct access to the Port “Auhafen” on the river Rhine, situated close to one of the largest marshaling yards in Eu-rope (Muttenz) and excellent access to the highway network. Besides existing buildings which can be converted, the area of free plots (green as well as brown field) available to interested companies increased to 14 hec-tares. As in the past, customers as well as companies outside the chemical park benefit from a comprehensive range of services

One Park – One Cluster of Competence www.getec-energyservices.com

which allow them to concentrate on their core business activities. Combining the two parks guarantees our customers a higher se-curity of supply of our services like energy, incineration of exhaust gases from the pro-duction buildings or solvent regeneration.

GETEC PARK.SWISS AG complies with all provisions of the Swiss incident and dan-gerous goods regulations and, therefore, pro-vides state-of-the-art requirements for a safe and environmentally sustainable location for industrial companies which are engaged in research, development and/or production, in the chemical and life sciences industries.

With our chemical and life sciences park we are located in the center of Europe close to Basel, one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world. In the Basel area you will find an extraordinary concentration of innovative companies in the field of fine chemicals and life sciences, an open-minded culture, an international environment, busi-ness friendly conditions and quality of life that will fulfill the most stringent require-ments.

According to our customers, one of the decisive factors to settle their enterprise at the site in Muttenz is the speed at which they can realize their business, be it the permit to start with the construction work of a produc-tion building or the permit to start manufac-turing chemical products. The authorities show a professional approach in dealing with special requests and are very familiar with

the processes in the chemical industry. In addition, thanks to the well-established con-nections of our professional Health, Safety and Environment department, the early in-formal exchange of information with author-ities enables companies to achieve target-ori-ented solutions.

The combined two sites, operating as a chemical and life sciences park since the be-ginning of 2019, have already as separate parks shown an impressive growth. Turnover with third party customers grew considera-bly and additional jobs were created. So far tenants invested several hundreds of millions of Swiss Francs in various projects to expand production capacities. To support this ex-pansion, both parks have invested considera-bly in infrastructure like waste water pre-treatment, energy, solvent regeneration and utility supply. Thus our Waste2Value ap-proach is one of our unique selling proposi-tions in order to satisfy our customers’ needs to reduce their carbon footprint and improve sustainability as well.

To date 25 companies are based at GETEC PARK.SWISS. These companies are active in the field of the production and de-velopment of specialty chemicals, agro chemicals, pharmaceuticals, green chemi-cals, industrial, pharmaceutical and medical gas products, but also chemical logistics, lab automation and other services that support the manufacturing companies at site and are not part of our own service offering.

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The two combined chemical parks in Muttenz near Basel are the perfect location for industri-al companies which are active in research, de-velopment and/or production, especially those in the chemical and life sciences industries.Infrastructure:GETEC PARK.SWISS provides the industry with a comprehensive range of services. Due to the ac-quisition of the two parks by GETEC and, hence, combining the two sites the area grew to 50 hectares of outstanding developed real estate with open plots of approx. 14 hectares. We comply with all provisions of Swiss SEVESO and dangerous goods regulations and, there-fore, provide state-of-the-art requirements for a safe and environmentally sustainable indus-trial location.

Location: Situated at the heart of Europe at the point where Switzerland, Germany and France meet, GETEC PARK.SWISS is integrated into the busi-ness hub of Basel. Hardly any other region demonstrates a comparable convergence of in-dustrial companies and research institutions in the chemical and life sciences industries as Ba-sel.

Vicinity: The location is extremely well-connected to in-ternational transportation routes by means of rail, road and river, with its own access to the Rhine. The EuroAirport is just 15 km away.

Services: ● Facilities management and administration ● Utilities ● Waste disposal ● Health, safety & environment ● Logistics ● Maintenance ● Technical services ● Analytics

Residing companies:Accroma labtec AG; aprentas; AVA Biochem BSL AG; BASF Schweizerhalle AG; Bayer CropScience Schweiz AG; Beyond Surface Technologies AG; Brenntag Schweizerhall AG; Clariant Additives (Switzerland) AG; Clariant International AG; Clariant SE, Frankfurt am Main, Zweignieder-lassung Muttenz, Schweiz; Clariant Plastics & Coatings AG; Comar Chemie AG; GETEC Switzerland AG; Lehmann Rohrleitungsbau AG; mateco GmbH; Novartis Pharma AG; PanGas AG; Permatech GmbH; Remondis Chemical Waste Services AG; Renata AG; Step Bios GmbH; Swiss Performance Chemicals AG; Syn-genta AG; TFL Ledertechnik AG; vanBaerle AG

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Facilities Management and Incident Management We are anxious to keep our customers’ oper-ating and administration costs low by means of our professional facilities management and administration services. Security and Alarm Center: Our Alarm Control Unit is staffed around the clock and immediately investigates alerts from fire, gas and intrusion alarms as well as all fault mes-sages generated by operations and mobilizes the responsible emergency services as re-quired.

Our chemical incident unit and fire bri-gade is based on a militia system with on-call members from the various residing companies who are being trained by our professional firemen. These professionals are also able to offer safety solutions based on their many years of experience which are tailored to the specific needs of our custo-mers.Utilities: We offer our customers a wealth of energy products (i.e. electricity, natural gas, steam, cooling media, compressed air) and resources (e.g. water, nitrogen, acids, alkalis, peroxide).Waste Disposal: Our customers profit from a comprehensive waste management pro-gram. It extends from incineration of solid, liquid as well as gaseous waste including source exhaust air (collection pipes) and an environmentally friendly solvent regenera-tion right through to a unique waste water pretreatment plant. This plant can pretreat effluents that cannot be treated in the biological water treatment plant (heavily loaded with organic substances, contain low biodegradable organic compounds, heavy metals).

The drainage system at the site consists of separate sewers for industrial and sanitary aqueous effluents as well as clean water. To avoid any harmful impact on the Rhine wa-ter quality, the discharged aqueous effluents are constantly monitored. With ten retention basins ample retention volume is available.Health, Safety and Environment: Compa-nies located at the chemical park can benefit from designated experts who provide solu-tions-led advice for individual projects of our customers and for operating their plant

and storage facilities as well as regarding an emission management in line with the legal requirements.

We are providing support to our custo-mers in all aspects of plant safety as well as the preparation of basic information and documentation for the approvability of in-vestments by the respective authorities. This service is the key to our success. Medical Services: The on-site medical ser-vice offers our customers a comprehensive occupational health care service as well as emergency medical care.Logistics where the chemistry is right: Scheduling, warehousing and intra-site transportation are part and parcel of the day-to-day business of manufacturing plants. We have profound experience in transporting (trimodal connections rail, road, water) and handling of hazardous sub-stances and dangerous materials, such as toxic and explosive goods. Our dangerous goods safety adviser supports and advises our customers regarding the handling of hazardous and dangerous goods. The logis-tics of GETEC PARK.SWISS has the status of an Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) and Known Consignor. Technical Services: We have an expert team of consultants with specialized knowledge in engineering available to support our cus-tomers. In addition to engineering consul-tancy, we also provide support in the plan-ning of processing plants in terms of control systems, process control engineering and processing. We offer services for the repair and maintenance of equipment being used in production of our customers, as well as maintenance services for buildings and in-frastructure. Analytics: Challenge us with your analyt-ical issues! Our experience is based on a wide range of chemical compounds (poly-mers, dyestuffs, pigments, surfactants, chemicals), with more than 2,500 individual substances. Our experienced team advises and supports you during the product launch, from method development and validation right up to production. The main focus of the used techniques is trace analysis, purity testing and physicochemical properties de-termination of substances. Our analytical labs have the Swiss Accreditation for ISO/IEC 17025:2018.

GETEC PARK.SWISS AGRothausstrasse 61CH-4132 Muttenz SwitzerlandTel.: +41 61 264 01 11Email: [email protected]

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Industriepark HöchstA Chemical and Pharmaceutical Site with a Storied History – and a Bright Future

Industriepark Höchst in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, is one of Europe’s most successful research and production sites for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. With its technically advanced infrastructure carefully tailored to the needs of target in-dustries, the industrial park provides an ideal environment for the 90-plus compa-nies that call it home. What’s more, Indus-triepark Höchst’s location in the heart of the Rhine-Main Region and excellent access to transportation represent valuable locational advantages that make Industriepark Höchst even more attractive. Another benefit: close ties to the many colleges, universities and research institutions in the region.

Tenants of the 4.6 square kilometer park, whose origins date back to 1863, range from multinational corporations to niche service providers to tiny start-ups and employ around 22,000 people. Industriepark Höchst is a vibrant, forward-looking location, and the investment figures show it. Tenants in-

vested around EUR 327 million in the park in 2018. Total investment since 2000 has topped EUR 7.7 billion. In fact, investment has stayed remarkably constant at EUR 300-400 million a year over the past nearly 20 years.

Infraserv Höchst, the operator of Indus-triepark Höchst, has been a major driver of the site’s successful evolution. Established in 1997, the company maintains a broad portfolio of services and effectively sup-ports park tenants so they can focus entire-ly on their core business. It supplies tenants with electricity and steam as well as techni-cal gases, eight different grades of water and many different raw materials, all while meeting high efficiency standards. In-fraserv Höchst disposes of waste and waste-water at its treatment and disposal facilities in an environmentally responsible fashion. Waste heat from these facilities is captured and redirected into the park’s supply sys-tems in order to reduce fossil fuel con-

sumption. Other services in the Infraserv Höchst portfolio include health, safety, en-vironment, logistics and facility manage-ment.

Infraserv Höchst is constantly upgrading Industriepark Höchst to make the site more competitive on its tenants’ behalf. Among other things, the industrial park operator is investing in the modernization of its gas turbine plant and the construction of two additional power plant units that will gener-ate steam from waste heat and natural gas. This project is associated with a complete coal phase-out – and will eliminate around a million metric tons of CO2 emissions a year. Another investment in clean energy tech-nology: Industriepark Höchst will be host-ing a fueling station for fuel cell-powered locomotives that the regional public transit operator is buying. The world’s largest fleet of these high-tech trains will be fueled at Industriepark Höchst, where ample hydro-gen is generated as a byproduct of chemical

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production. Infraserv Höchst has been in-volved in pioneering projects to develop hydrogen and fuel cell technology for over ten years.

Digitalization is obviously a top priority for Infraserv Höchst as well. Infraserv Höchst Prozesstechnik, a subsidiary estab-lished in 2018, uses more than just tablet and smartphone apps for generating paper-less maintenance documentation – it also employs augmented reality glasses. Equipped with these head-mounted displays, mainte-nance workers have their hands free to per-form other tasks, can use voice commands to document the condition of equipment, and they can communicate directly with customers in real time and get them in-volved in assessing a machine’s condition. Industry 4.0 is already a part of day-to-day operations at Infraserv Höchst.

Infrastructure: ● Total area of 4.6 million square meters, in-

cluding over 500,000 square meters that are available and ready for use

● Park tenants invested EUR 7.7 billion in the park from 2000 to 2018

● Excellent access to transportation, out-standing logistics infrastructure

● Superior network for the supply of utilities, process fluids and raw materials and the disposal of waste and wastewater

Tenants: Around 90 companies call Industriepark Höchst home. Most operate in the chemical and phar-maceutical industry. They include Sanofi, Bayer, Clariant, Celanese, BASF, LyondellBasell, Noury-on, Kuraray, Cargill, Grillo and Daikin. 22,000 people work at Industriepark Höchst.

Services:Infraserv Höchst is headquartered in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and is a leading developer of research and production sites for chemical and pharmaceutical companies. It provides customized modular solutions as well as inno-vative integrated service packages. It can even operate the entire facility on-site if desired. Its capabilities range from equipment manage-ment, disposal management and grid and pipeline operation all the way to site services, facility management and environment, health and safety services. The Infraserv Höchst Group also handles logistics, provides training and supplies services for process equipment through subsidiaries. Infraserv Höchst develops solutions for de-manding customers in a highly regulated envi-ronment. Numerous service providers are locat-ed at Industriepark Höchst, including patent attorneys, engineering firms, analytical service providers, printers, travel agencies, parcel ser-vices, technical regulatory agencies and many more.

Company Profile

Infraserv HöchstTel.:+49 69 305-46300sitemarketing@infraserv.comwww.industriepark-hoechst.com

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Industriepark Höchst is rich with oppor-tunities and prospects. Provadis, an Infraserv subsidiary and the industry’s de-veloper of skilled experts, trains young people in over 40 different vocational pro-grams for tenant companies and many oth-er customers. Around 500 young men and women started training programs at Provadis in 2019. Provadis even has its own higher-learning institution that offers exec-utive and cooperative college degree pro-grams. Clearly, Industriepark Höchst is ful-ly prepared for demographic change.

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TÜV SÜD Chemie Service, headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a full-service provider for the chemical, pharmaceutical and process industries. Around 75 per cent of the employees are from these sectors. The company was formed from merging the former owner’s inspectorates and owner’s engineering departments of Bayer, Hoechst and Dow Olefinverbund. Based on their long-standing experience, the experts pro-

TÜV SÜD Chemie ServiceAn expert partner for designers, manufacturers and owners of chemical and process facilities ensuring, safe, reliable and profitable facilities.

vide integrated services that focus on ensur-ing safe, reliable and profitable plants throughout the life cycle – from planning, procurement, installation, placing into ser-vice, operation and maintenance to shut down and decommissioning.

From Steam Boilers to Industry 4.0Today, TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH is the specialist entity within TÜV SÜD AG.

The origins of TÜV SÜD Group as a third-party testing and certification organi-sation date back to when the owners of steam boilers in industrial centres decided to establish the first steam boiler inspection associations. Founded in 1866, TÜV SÜD has evolved into a global enterprise which is located in about 50 countries to continually improve technology, systems and expertise. This contributes significantly to making technical innovations such as Industry 4.0, autonomous driving and renewable energy safe and reliable.

“Regarding the process industry we will maintain our strong position in Germany, while strategically building and expanding our status by entering intensive partnerships with other member companies of the TÜV SÜD Group”, says Thomas Walkenhorst, CEO of TÜV SÜD Chemie Service and business unit Manager Chemical and Pro-cess Industry (CPI) at TÜV SÜD. Hans Joachim Machetanz, COO of TÜV SÜD Chemie Service adds, “Besides our estab-lished services, we will primarily expand our activities in the fields of process safety and functional safety.”

Testing, Certification and Engineering The company’s core competence covers tai-lored testing, certification and engineering services. This includes integrated sourcing strategies in addition to corrosion protection expertise and the management of pipe class-es, particularly with respect to changing codes, regulations, ordinances and stand-ards. The accredited testing organisation is also recognised as a Certified Body what fa-cilitates launching components and systems.

TÜV SÜD Chemie Service’s approach ensures cost-efficient compliance with legal requirements and plants with an outstand-ing level of availability. Besides inspections, the experts provide hazard and risk assess-ment services and evaluate customers opti-mised risk-based turnaround strategies. Operators also benefit from software-based data management and end-to-end techni-cal documentation. Reliable scheduling and execution of the inspection services

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Basic / DetailEngineering

Sourcing / Manufacturing

Assembly / Taking into Service

Operation / Maintenance Modification Decommission

Data Management / Documentation (DAMAS)

Life Cycle Services (LCS)Process Safety Management

Plant & Equipment Integrity (PEI)and Materials Engineering & Testing

Plant Safety & Inspection (PSI)

including documentation are significant contributors to successful compliance management.

In addition, the experts offer consulting services based on the HAZOP procedure for the systematic risk review of all possible process aspects, to ensure, that the design incorporates adequate safe guards to allow a process to stabilise at operation condi-tions and for confident shut downs. In or-der to complement the existing product portfolio with an established laboratory and premium advisory services, TÜV SÜD Process Safety determines data and reac-tion parameters for thermal process safety, explosion protection and safety assess-ments within the scope of the Seveso Di-rective in Europe.

Close to the Customer – WorldwideIn recent years, the construction of world-scale plants has increasingly moved to emerging markets. In order to increase cost efficiency large investment projects typically include global sourcing strategies. Dedicat-

TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH offers multidis-ciplinary project and system solutions for the chemical, process and pharmaceutical indus-tries at international level. The inspection and certification company holds accreditations as a Certified Body. The service provider evolved from leading German chemical and pharma-ceutical companies and is now a 100 per cent subsidiary of TÜV SÜD AG.

Operating from their sites in Europe, the USA, China, Singapore and India, the experts of the global business unit Chemical and Process In-dustries (CPI) support their customers globally. TÜV SÜD is represented in more than 1,000 lo-cations worldwide and operates globally with a team of more than 24,500 multi-disciplinary experts recognised as specialists in their respec-tive fields. By combining impartial expertise with invaluable insights, the company adds tangible value to businesses, consumers and the environment. This helps to increase effi-ciency, reduce costs and manage risk.

Company Profile

ContactTÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbHMarkus LöbKaiser Wilhelm AlleeBuilding B 407D-51368 LeverkusenGermanyTel.: 0214/[email protected]/chemieservicewww.tuv-sud.com/cog

Thomas Walken-horst, CEO of TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH and Business Unit Manager Chemical and Pro-cess Industry (CPI) at TÜV SÜD (left), and Hans Joachim Ma-chetanz, COO of TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH

ed quality assurance during design and manufacturing phase is of crucial impor-tance to guarantee mechanical integrity of equipment – grounded in regulatory and customer specific standards. Industry- sector-specific services help customers to keep control over their investments and op-erating costs. Further, the risk of service in-terruption and downtime in the operating phase can be mitigated significantly by en-suring the appropriate quality level during construction.

Based on decades of in-depth industry experience, the experts deliver the essential high-quality level as a core value, turning TÜV SÜD Chemie Service into the interna-tionally leading provider for reliable, sustain-able and overall cost-effective plant safety. The global business unit Chemical and Pro-cess Industry (CPI) serves as one stop solu-tion provider and delivers highly specialised services around the globe. Their experts are located close to their customers in major chemical markets complemented by TÜV SÜD’s worldwide presence.

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sustainable production contributing to the development of a circular economy in Chi-na,” said Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Chair-man of the Board of Executive Directors. www.basf.com

Chemical company BASF officially launched its smart Verbund project in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, China, and com-menced building its first plants. It marks a milestone of the company’s €9 billion in-vestment project announced in July 2018. The first plants are to produce engineering plastics and thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) to serve the increasing needs of vari-ous growth industries in the southern Chi-na market and throughout Asia, particular-ly the automotive, electronics and new energy vehicles industries. By 2022, the new engineering plastics compounding plant is planned to supply an additional capacity of 60,000 t/a, bringing the company’s total capacity of these products in Asia Pacific to 290,000 t/a.The company plans to implement a com-prehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. It is to utilize automa-

ted packaging, high-tech control systems, and automated guided vehicles. “By utili-zing the latest digital technologies and ap-plying the highest safety standards, the new Verbund site will be a role model for

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said Matthias Zachert, Chairman of the Board of Management of Lanxess. “At the same time, the sale of our stake will give us additional financial leeway to drive forward our growth course in specialty chemicals.” www.lanxess.com

New Data Center for CSL Behring at Marburg

Bayer and Lanxess Sell Stakes in Currenta to Funds

Pharmaserv has built a data center for the biotechnology specialist CSL Behring at the Behringwerke site in Marburg, Germany. It was inaugurated in November 2019. The complex houses 14 IT racks on more than 100 m³: this is where the company bundles its IT systems. Security and availability of the IT systems have been priori-ties: The computer centre is located within the guarded and secured factory premi-ses, and the building also has its own access control, a modern separation system, a burglar alarm system and video surveillance. The power supply and air conditio-ning are completely redundant to protect the data, so that in the event of a failure, a replacement system would immediately take effect. Two separate transformer stations, each with its own emergency power generators, are to reliably supply the building with electricity. www.pharmaserv.de

Bayer and Lanxess announced that they have sold their stakes in the chemical park operator Currenta to funds managed by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (Mira). Currenta manages and operates inf-rastructure, energy supply and other essen-tial services across the chemical parks in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdin-gen and is currently a joint venture of Bayer (60%) and Lanxess (40%). The company is valued with a total enterprise value of €3.5 billion before deduction of net debt and pension obligations. It was crucial “that the future Currenta owner structure should safeguard our strategic interest in an indus-try-oriented set-up of the chemical parks”,

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Wastewater Collection Station in Operation at Leuna

At the Leuna chemical site, a new wastewa-ter collection station for tankers was of-ficially put into operation. Via the station, companies can deliver a wide variety of wastewater around the clock using tankers for the Central Biological Wastewater Treat-ment Plant (ZAB). This is particularly impor-tant for companies that are not connected to the site‘s sewer network. Since 2013, around 18 million euros have been invested in the modernisation of the wastewater treatment plant. In total, the operator Infra-leuna has invested more than €50 million this year to maintain and expand the infra-structure of the chemical site. www.infraleuna.de

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