German Wildermannwerke chemical factories

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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '27 "  N , 7 ° 1' 2.2"  E Deutsche Wildermannwerke Chemische Fabriken GmbH was a subsidiary of Stinnes AG in Niederkassel - Lülsdorf . The first manager, Meyer Wildermann, had potash and sodium electrolysis producedhere with the help of the process he developed. Today the plant belongs to Evonik under the name Evonik Industries, Lülsdorf plant .

history

The plant was founded on November 7, 1912 in order to receive electricity from the “Vorgebirgszentrale” brown coal power station . The other shareholders of the Deutsche Wildermannwerke were also subsidiaries of the Stinnes group: The German-Luxemburgish-Bergwerks- und Hütten AG , the Rheinisch-Westfälische Elektrizitätswerk AG and the union " Zeche Mathias Stinnes ". The Lülsdorf location near the Rhine was selected because of its flood-proof location.

In 1917, Meyer Wildermann was replaced as managing director by Friedrich Minoux . Potassium chlorate , which u. a. was used in the manufacture of explosives, was the main product of the plant during World War I. In 1920 the plant became part of the Stinnes Holding "Koholyt AG". In the 1920s, corundum was mainly produced.

After the death of Hugo Stinnes sen. In 1926 the factory came into the possession of the English company Inveresk-Paper Co. Ltd. During the Great Depression , the then largest German pulp and paper company acquired Feldmühle AG , the AG Koholyt 1930. The work Lülsdorf traded from now as a field mill, pulp and paper Werke AG factory Koholyt Lülsdorf . During the Second World War , prisoners of war and forced laborers from Ukraine , Poland , Italy , Belgium , the Netherlands and Spain were increasingly used in Lülsdorf.

In 1950 the production range was expanded to include potash . 1962, when Feldmühle AG acquired a share in Dynamit Aktiengesellschaft vorm. Alfred Nobel & Co. , the plant was renamed Dynamit Nobel AG, Feldmühle Lülsdorf plant , because it had been leased from Feldmühle AG. For Dynamit Nobel, a manufacturer of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), the chlor-alkali electrolysis of the Lülsdorfer was interesting because it was able to produce the monomer vinyl chloride, which had been purchased up to then, itself.

The start of production of alkali alcoholates took place in 1957. The addition of sodium aluminate meant the entry into a special chemistry of electrolysis. The Lülsdorf plant continued this strategy between 1959 and 2000. From 1962, the alcoholates were processed into the orthoesters trimethyl orthoformate (TMOF) and triethyl orthoformate (TEOF), which are still produced today .

In 1968 Dynamit Nobel acquired the previously leased site from Feldmühle AG. The Lülsdorf plant was henceforth called Dynamit Nobel AG, Lülsdorf plant . In 1976 it had 1,600 employees. In 1988 it was sold to Hüls AG together with the chemical division of Dynamit Nobel AG and operated under the name Hüls AG, Lülsdorf plant until 1999 . After that it was a plant of Degussa-Hüls AG or Degussa AG , Düsseldorf.

The Lülsdorf plant has been part of Evonik Industries since September 2007 . It has 500 employees.

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The plant is located directly on the Rhine and therefore has access to Rhine shipping. A train connection to Troisdorf is provided by the Kleinbahn Siegburg – Zündorf line .

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