Israel Chemicals
| Israel Chemicals Ltd.
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| legal form | Ltd |
| ISIN | IL0002810146 |
| founding | 1984 |
| Seat |
Tel Aviv Israel
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| management | Raviv Zoller |
| Number of employees | 12,457 |
| sales | 6.11 billion US dollars |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.icl-group.com |
| Status: 2014 | |
Israel Chemicals Ltd. ( ICL for short , Hebrew כימיקלים לישראל בע"מ) is an international chemical company and manufacturer of fertilizers, inorganic phosphorus chemicals, flame retardants, plasticizers, hydraulic fluids as well as technical hydrochloric acid and food additives. It was state-owned until privatization in 1992. Israel Chemicals accounts for 35% of global bromine production and 11% of potash salt production . Israel Chemicals is the world market leader in bromine and pure phosphoric acid . ICL also ranks first worldwide for potassium dihydrogen phosphate (MKP) and sixth for potash salt. The bromine, potassium and magnesium salts are mined in the Dead Sea and the Negev desert , among other places .
The group is divided into the Essential Minerals and Specialty Solutions divisions. The Essential Minerals division includes the ICL Potash & Magnesium, ICL Phosphate and ICL Specialty Fertilizers business units. The Specialty Solutions division comprises the ICL Industrial Products, ICL Advanced Additives and ICL Food Specialties divisions.
The company is headquartered in Tel Aviv and achieved sales of around 5.4 billion US dollars in 2015 with around 13,000 employees.
In 2012, the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan offered $ 16 billion for a takeover of ICL. Both management and majority owners were in favor of the sale, but the State of Israel made use of its right of veto.
Majority owner Idan Ofer
The billionaire Idan Ofer , Israel's richest man and one of the 500 richest men in the world, controlled by shares directly held and the investment vehicle Israel Corporation , the majority of ICL.
BK Giulini GmbH
Giulini-Chemie, founded by Georg Giulini in 1823, has been part of the ICL Group since 1977 . In 1996, BK Ladenburg , founded as Benckiser Knapsack (BK), was taken over by Hoechst . 1997 Giulini Chemie and BK Ladenburg merge and become BK Giulini GmbH. BK Giulini GmbH is part of ICL Advanced Additives.
In 2015 ICL parted with several business areas of BK Giulini GmbH. The water chemistry business was sold to the Japanese Kurita Group for EUR 250 million . The transaction affects 460 employees internationally, including around 250 in Ludwigshafen and 35 in Düsseldorf. Other locations in Europe and China are also affected. The Rhenoflex division, the business with shoe caps and shoe heels, was also sold. Rhenoflex was sold to the holding company Findos. The Anti-Germ group of companies , including the Irish Medentech, were sold to the holding company Paragon Partners .
ICL-IP Terneuzen BV
ICL-IP Terneuzen , part of the ICL Industrial Products division, belongs to ICL , the former Broomchemie founded in 1970 from Terneuzen in the Netherlands . It produces various organobromine compounds .
Including the flame retardants:
- Decabromodiphenylether (trade name FR 1210 )
- Hexabromocyclododecane ( FR 1206 )
- Tetrabromobisphenol A ( FR 1524 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ ICL 2014 Annual Report ( Memento of the original dated June 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 28, 2015
- ↑ a b ICL: Periodic Report for 2011 ( Memento from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ICL Periodic Report 2013 ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Structure | ICL - Where Needs Take Us. (No longer available online.) In: www.icl-group.com. Archived from the original on January 1, 2017 ; accessed on January 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Theglobeandmail.com: Potash Corp. eyes Israeli rival , October 31, 2012.
- ↑ Subscribe to read. In: www.ft.com. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
- ^ History. (No longer available online.) In: www.icl-pp.com. Archived from the original on January 1, 2017 ; accessed on January 1, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Kurita in EUR 250 million deal with BK Giulini. In: Pulp & Paper. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
- ↑ JUVE - www.juve.de: Chemie: Kurita buys with Freshfields water treatment division from ICL. In: juve.de. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
- ↑ ICL sells division again . In: morgenweb, the news portal for the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region . ( Morgenweb.de [accessed January 1, 2017]).
- ↑ PARAGON PARTNERS acquires Anti-Germ and Medentech . In: Paragon Partners . February 28, 2015 ( paragon.de [accessed January 1, 2017]).
- ↑ Homepage of ICL Netherlands , accessed on December 26, 2017.
- ↑ Product list ICL-IP Terneuzen
