Agrola

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Agrola AG

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founding 1957
Seat Winterthur , Switzerland
Branch Mineral oil processing
Website www.agrola.ch

Agrola is a Swiss mineral oil company based in Winterthur . Agrola is a subsidiary of Fenaco .

A good 75 percent of the gasoline , diesel and heating oil traded by Agrola are placed in the market via Landi . With 430 petrol stations according to AVIA International (604 petrol stations), Agrola is number 2 in the Swiss petrol station market (a total of 3461 petrol stations). Agrola is also an important supplier of fuel in the customer tank business.

Agrola, with its traditional roots in agriculture , says it is following developments in the field of renewable energies from biomass (EEB) in order to offer farmers alternatives in their current difficult situation and to help marketable products break through through their own filling stations. In addition, a nationwide network for hydrogen filling stations is to be implemented by 2023 . The first charging station for electric vehicles was commissioned in 2017 as a pilot system at Landi in Matzingen .

history

Agrola was founded in 1957 under the name AGROL as a trading company for fuels in the Winterthur area . In 1958, AGROL was taken over by the VOLG cooperative and the name was changed to AGROLA. On December 15, 1966, the nine agricultural cooperative associations VOLG, VLG, VLGZ, UCAR, LV, FCA, NWV, GVS and AGRICOLA founded AGROLA AG in Zurich. In 1974 Agrola took over the private mineral oil import company INTERPETROL AG. With the merger of several cooperatives to form fenaco in 1993, Agrola becomes a national brand. Sales via tank shops of the Landi retail chain become a growth engine for Agrola. In May 2019, the first Agrola fast charging station in Switzerland was opened at Landi in Worb .

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b petrol stations 2015: The consolidation continues. Petroleum Association, February 15, 2016, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Mario Graf: Socar Energy Switzerland relies on hydrogen. In: energate-messenger.ch. September 21, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018 .
  4. ↑ fenaco signs federal electromobility roadmap. In: fenaco.ch. December 18, 2018, accessed June 1, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Self-presentation of the history of AGROLA , accessed on August 8, 2012
  6. ↑ Convince through performance. (PDF; 4 MB. Pp. 20–21) The history of the merger of the agricultural cooperative associations in Switzerland. In: fenaco.com. 2015, accessed January 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Landi: First fast charging station. In: schweizerbauer.ch . May 15, 2019, accessed May 15, 2019 .