BASF Schwarzheide
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1934 (as BRABAG) |
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Schwarzheide , Germany
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| Number of employees | 2035 |
| Branch | Chemical industry |
| Website | www.basf-schwarzheide.de |
The BASF Schwarzheide GmbH is a 100 percent subsidiary of BASF SE. It is located in the Lusatia lignite mining area in Schwarzheide . The plant was built in 1935 as the Schwarzheide ( Ruhland ) hydrogenation plant for the production of synthetic gasoline from lignite using the Fischer-Tropsch process and has been primarily used for polyurethane production since 1972 .
After Ludwigshafen, the Lausitz production site is one of the largest European sites within the BASF Group. Here, 12 km of roads and bridges, 15 production facilities and three infrastructure facilities form the heart of the location.
BASF Schwarzheide GmbH has around 2000 employees, including third-party companies, around 3500 employees.
Products
The product portfolio of BASF Schwarzheide GmbH includes polyurethanes , engineering plastics , foams , pesticides , performance chemicals and paints .
- Polyurethanes - basic raw materials for components
- Engineering plastics - Ultradur ® - polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) for resilient components
- Foams - all- purpose foams Styropor ® and Stryrodur ®
- Pesticides - Fungicides - F 500 ® Antimycotics
- Performance chemicals - PU dispersions and laromers refine products
- Paints - water-based paints for automobiles
history
BRABAG Ruhland-Schwarzheide hydrogenation plant (1935–1954)
The BRABAG Schwarzheide hydrogenation plant was built in 1935 as the third operation of the Braunkohle-BENZ Aktiengesellschaft (BRABAG) between the towns of Schwarzheide and Ruhland and began operating in stages from 1936. In the first few years, it was named BRABAG Ruhland after the neighboring railway junction , and was primarily used to extract synthetic fuels from local lignite ( coal liquefaction ) using the Fischer-Tropsch process, in order to make Germany independent of foreign oil sources. Produced car gasolines , diesel oils, lubricating oils and their by-products sulfur, phenols and paraffins .
BRABAG Schwarzheide was badly hit by over 100 Allied bombers in the course of Operation Frantic on June 21, 1944, and over 75% of it was destroyed at the end of the Second World War. In the period between July 1944 and April 1945, up to 1,000 prisoners from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps were deployed in the Schwarzheide satellite camp , which is controlled by SS units , primarily for clean-up work and repairs after this and other Allied air raids were imprisoned. After the Potsdam Agreement , BRABAG Schwarzheide became a Soviet stock corporation (SAG) in 1946 and manufactured chemical products for reparations to Poland and the Soviet Union .
VEB Synthesewerk Schwarzheide (1954–1990)
On January 1, 1954, the SAG plant was handed over to the GDR and continued to be operated as VEB Synthesewerk Schwarzheide . Gasoline production in Schwarzheide was stopped in 1971, but polyurethane production began in 1973, and production was expanded to over 170,000 tons per year by 1989. So was the work of the largest operation for polyurethane production in the Group of States of the CMEA .
BASF Schwarzheide GmbH (1990 to today)
The VEB Synthesewerk Schwarzheide , which had up to 6,000 jobs including trainees, was acquired by BASF from the Treuhandanstalt in 1990 and has been trading as BASF Schwarzheide GmbH ever since . As a result, BASF invested over 1.5 billion euros in the infrastructure and in new or existing production, as well as supply and disposal facilities. For a time, the BASF Group's polyurethane research was also concentrated here.
engagement
Arts and Culture
BASF Schwarzheide GmbH has changing exhibitions with different focuses in its own cultural center. The year 2018 was themed: "The Art of Transformation - The Art of Changes". The Lausitz location also hosts regularly changing concerts.
Music promotion award eco
Since 2010, BASF has been awarding the eco music prize to young artists from the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden . The selection process changes annually between a competition at the university and a jury decision. The name eco translated from Italian means echo or reverberation. With the award, BASF Schwarzheide GmbH supports students on their way to a successful career.
education and Science
With a wide range of projects, BASF Schwarzheide GmbH supports the next generation in the exciting world of natural sciences. As the main sponsor, BASF supports the Glass Laboratory in the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden . Other initiatives that are supported or even donated by the company are: Jugend forscht , MINTregio and the children's museum.
literature
- From the history of the Schwarzheide chemical plant; Ed .: BASF Schwarzheide GmbH; Authors: Jeschke, Hans-Joachim; Huebner, Peter; (Vols. 1-4); Sielaff, Rüdiger (vol. 5)
- Volume 1: 1935 to 1945, 2003
- Volume 2: 1945 to 1953, 2005
- Volume 3: 1954 to 1964, 2007
- Volume 4: 1965 to 1978, 2009
- Volume 5: 1979 to 1990, 2010
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website, accessed on February 27, 2020
- ↑ location . In: BASF . ( basf.com [accessed November 9, 2018]).
- ↑ BASF PlasticsPortal - Engineering Plastics - Ultradur. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Fungicides . In: BASF . ( basf.com [accessed November 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Basecoats: BASF Coatings GmbH. Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Tobias Bütow, Franka Bindernagel: A concentration camp in the neighborhood. The Magdeburg satellite camp of Brabag and the "Freundeskreis Himmler" . Böhlau, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-412-09303-3 , pp. 39 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 30, 2016]).
- ↑ What remained of the coal Lausitzer Rundschau of October 26, 2005, accessed on June 16, 2019
- ↑ Commitment . In: BASF . ( basf.com [accessed November 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Commitment . In: BASF . ( basf.com [accessed November 9, 2018]).
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 54 ″ N , 13 ° 53 ′ 12 ″ E