Campa AG

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Campa
legal form AG
Seat Ochsenfurt
management Rupert Schmid (strategy, sales and marketing), René van der Poel (securing raw materials and vegetable oil production); Robert Kiesel (chairman of the supervisory board and member of the CSU state parliament)
Number of employees 100 (December 31, 2007)
sales 216 million euros (fiscal year 2005/06; as of June 30, 2006)
Branch Energy industry
Website www.campa-ag.de

Campa is a German group of companies in the energy industry . It produces, trades and sells biofuels on the national and international market. Campa is one of the largest biodiesel manufacturers in Germany and the market leader in southern Germany.

history

After the establishment of Campa Biodiesel GmbH & Co. KG in 1999, the biodiesel plant in Ochsenfurt was put into operation in 2000 with an initial production capacity of 75,000 tons / year. Campa was thus one of the pioneering companies in the German biofuel industry. In 2002 Campa Energie GmbH & Co KG was founded as a pure sales and trading branch. In 2005, the biodiesel production capacity in Ochsenfurt was expanded to 150,000 tons per year. In 2006 the holding company Campa AG and Campa iberia were founded for sales in Spain, Portugal and France. An oil mill was completed in autumn 2007 . In 2007 Campa received the “Bavarian Advancement Award for Renewable Raw Materials”. A second biodiesel plant in Straubing with a thermal power station, rapeseed and rapeseed meal storage facility should be ready in 2008.

On May 26, 2008, Campa filed for bankruptcy . This affects Campa Biodiesel GmbH & Co. KG, Campa Energie GmbH & Co. KG, Campa Süd GmbH & Co. KG and Campa AG. The group's liabilities amount to around 100 million euros, of which around 85 million are due to delays and cost overruns in the construction of the Straubing oil mill. According to the preliminary insolvency administrator's announcement on August 2, 2008, the silent contributions of around 2000 farmers, totaling at least 15 million euros, could not be secured by an insolvency plan procedure and are therefore completely lost. The continued operation of the Campa and its employees is likely to be guaranteed, and negotiations with investors are currently underway.

On August 15, 2008, the bankruptcy advisor Bruno Fraas announced that the US company Archer Daniels Midlands Company (ADM) will take over the company if the Federal Cartel Office approves. ADM offered the equivalent of around 50 million euros for the oil mill at the company's headquarters in Straubing, making it the highest offer of a number of interested parties. According to Fraas, the biodiesel refinery in Ochsenfurt should be excluded from the sale and sold separately. The daily Main-Post reported on October 8, 2008 that the sale of the oil mill to ADM had been approved by the Cartel Office; the plant in Ochsenfurt was sold to VNR for a single-digit million sum - according to the VNR homepage on September 1, 2008; the Ochsenfurt company now bears the name Campa GmbH & Co. KG according to their homepage.

The VNR Verwertungsgesellschaft für Nachwachsende Rohstoffe mbH & Co. KG, based in Ochsenfurt, and the newly founded Campa GmbH & Co. KG filed an application with the responsible insolvency court in Würzburg to open insolvency proceedings due to insolvency and overindebtedness. In the opinion of the insolvency administrator Frank Hanselmann, Würzburg, deficiencies in the company's management were decisive for the insolvency.

In March 2009 Tecosol GmbH in Ochsenfurt succeeded the insolvent biodiesel manufacturer Campa. Tecosol continues to use "Campa" as a brand name. Tecosol shareholders are:

  • Krauss GmbH & Co. KG, Aichtalk (40%)
  • Dr. Ralf Türck, Stuttgart (10%)
  • Lendl GmbH, Waldenbuch (5%)
  • Dr. Roland Ballier (20%)
  • VALIANT doo, Ljubljana (25%)

VALIANT only became a partner on August 12, 2010.

structure

The group's holding company was Campa AG. The operational business of the Campa Group was divided into the three areas of oilseeds, production and trade. Subsidiaries of the AG were Campa Biodiesel GmbH & Co. KG (production; headquarters in Ochsenfurt), Campa Süd GmbH & Co. KG (production; headquarters in Straubing ) and Campa energie GmbH & Co. KG (trade and sales; headquarters: Ochsenfurt ). The marketing company Campa iberia SA in Spain was a full subsidiary of Campa Energie GmbH & Co. KG.

Campa had its own Rapsmethylester - esterification in Ochsenfurt with a production capacity according to DIN EN 14214 of 150,000 tons of biodiesel per year (2007) and sold 270,000 tonnes in 2005/06. Campa also operated its own oil mill (extraction press plant) in Straubing for the production of rapeseed oil ( Campa® oil's own brand ) from rapeseed. In addition to its own brand Campa® diesel , Campa also marketed biofuels from third-party producers to shipping companies, mineral oil companies and dealers. Campa was the initiator and one of three member companies of the Biodiesel-Partner-Tank (BPT) chain with more than 120 filling stations nationwide. This gave Campa access to the end customer business. Campa was also connected to Scheier Europe's pan-European petrol station network (via petrol card). As a further mainstay, Campa operated the planning and construction of biodiesel plants and the cultivation of oilseeds. More than 2,000 farmers and over 10,000 producers supplied the group. The group thus covered the entire value chain .

The largest Campa shareholder (42.47%) was the Ochsenfurt-based collecting society for renewable raw materials GmbH & Co. KG (VNR). Around 2,000 farmers were involved in VNR with a total of around 11.4 million euros as silent partners. Around 10 donors had brought in above-average amounts, in addition to Franconian farmers and a Czech company.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Biodiesel from Bavaria: US company buys Campa . n-tv.de, August 15, 2008
  2. ↑ Campa sale is approved . Main-Post, October 8, 2008
  3. ↑ Press release on the insolvency of VNR Verwertungsgesellschaft für renewable raw materials mbH & Co. KG and Campa GmbH & Co. KG (PDF; 20 kB). "Press release
  4. ↑ Insolvency administrator sees management errors as the main reason for VNR bankruptcy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . agrarheute.com, December 4, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.agrarheute.com  
  5. ↑ Lessons learned from the biodiesel disaster . mainpost.de, July 21, 2011
  6. ↑ Handelsregisterauszug Tecosol GmbH, list of shareholders . handelsregister.de, September 14, 2012
  7. ↑ Spolek pro chemickou a hutní výrobu , akciová společnost, Annual Report 2008, pages 9, 56 ( PDF ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spolchemie.cz

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