Apollo refinery
Apollo was an Austro-Hungarian joint-stock company in the chemical industry based in Pressburg (later Bratislava).
history
In 1895 it was decided in Budapest to build a refinery in Pressburg near the Mlynska záhrada (" Mill Garden "). After an AG was founded in 1895, the Apollo refinery was put into operation a year later.
The factory with an area of 7.5 ha mainly processed oil from the Russian-controlled Caucasus and the Subcarpathian (Galicia), later from Texas, Gbely (Slovakia), Ploieşti (Romania) and other sources of production in Eastern Europe.
The mineral oil refinery produced gasoline , petroleum , paraffin , candles, petroleum jelly , asphalt and artificial ice .
Before the First World War , around 20,000 tons of crude oil were processed annually, but this decreased sharply towards the end of the war and in 1924 the output was only 6,000 tons. Later it was modernized, with cracking and atmospheric vacuum distillation plants of up to 60,000 tons per year being built. The main products were motor oils, petroleum coke for making electrodes and carborundum .
In 1941 the refining facilities for kerosene, diesel oil, lubricating oils and waxes were improved. In 1942 the selective oil- phenol refinery for 20,000 tons per year and a tank for 6,000 m³ was built. In 1943 the Apollo refinery reached its historically greatest output with 160,445 tons of processed oil.
The industrial plant, which was located at the northern bridgehead of today's Apollo Bridge , was bombed by Americans on June 16, 1944 and 80% of it was destroyed. At that time the company belonged to IG Farben .
In 1946 the remnants of the refinery were nationalized and subordinated to the state-owned Slovak Mineral Oil Refineries ( Slovenské rafinérie minerálnych olejov ), which was renamed np Slovnaft (today Slovnaft, as) in 1949 . The refinery continued to produce at this location until 1963, after which it moved to the new location Vlčie hrdlo ("Wolf's trunk") in Bratislava II .
During the construction of the Apollo Bridge, considerable amounts of soil contamination were discovered and cleaned up.
See also
- FK Inter Bratislava , founded in 1940 as a factory club