Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park

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The Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park is an industrial park in Elsteraue geared towards the chemical industry .

Industrial park logo

The 15 companies producing in the park employ more than 600 people and generate annual sales of around 300 million euros. The product range extends from adipic acid , high-quality base oils , wheat starch, wax products (including oil and chemical binders) to industrial adhesives. Another 400 employees at the site work in companies in the field of power generation, industry-related services and research and development. The operator and site developer of the 232 hectare area is Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbH.

Location and transport links

The Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park belongs to the Elsteraue community and is located 5 kilometers from the city of Zeitz and 40 kilometers south of the city of Leipzig . The park belongs to the so-called Central German chemical triangle . The Leuna Chemical Park, the Total Raffinerie Mitteldeutschland and the Bitterfeld-Wolfen Chemical Park are in the vicinity. The companies based in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park also maintain supply relationships to the Piesteritz Agrochemical Park and to BASF Schwarzheide.

The Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park is accessed internally by an approximately 9-kilometer road system and an approximately 4-kilometer-long ring track that is connected to the Zeitz – Altenburg railway line. The local companies are supplied with hydrogen by means of a pipeline coming from the Leuna Chemical Park.

history

The Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park goes back to the Zeitz hydrogenation plant, which was built between 1937 and 1939 and extracted fuel and lubricants from local lignite tar (the so-called Bergius Pier process ). The annual capacity was around 300,000 tons. After the reconstruction of the production facilities, which had been badly destroyed in the Second World War, the site was supplemented by a crude oil refinery in the 1970s (capacity: around 2.8 million tons per year) and the hydrogenation plant was expanded to a throughput of around 700,000 tons. In the years that followed, the Zeitz hydrogenation plant made a name for itself as a base producer of the petrochemical industry in the GDR and employed more than 4,000 people. The main products included diesel fuels exported worldwide, two-stroke engine oils (including the “Hyzet” brand), other lubricants and paraffins. The hydrogenation plant was most recently part of the VEB Petrolchemisches Kombinat (PCK) in Schwedt / Oder.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the processing of carbochemical products as well as the production of lubricating oil and paraffin was discontinued. This was followed by the shutdown of oil processing and the closure of the hydrogenation plant. At the same time, the dismantling of all industrial facilities and a complete renovation of the 232 hectare area began in the mid-1990s . The site was gradually developed into a modern, open chemical park under the leadership of ZSG Zeitzer Standortgesellschaft mbH, founded in 1996 (renamed Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbH in 2010). In five development phases, the equivalent of more than 100 million euros was invested in the renovation, expansion and new construction of industrial infrastructure systems by 2012. Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbH intends to spend around 13 million euros on the expansion of the disposal and processing facilities and further clearing of the construction site by 2016. The soil contamination is to be contained or removed step by step as part of a "major ecological project" by the State Agency for Exempting Contaminated Sites of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.

Resources and Infrastructures

The services are offered by various companies in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park. As the site operator, the Infra-Zeitz service company takes on the bundling function. Infra-Zeitz is essentially the territorial water supply and wastewater disposal company as well as the property owner.

Two research institutes are located in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park: The Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ and the ifn Research and Technology Center GmbH (ifn). As an accredited analysis laboratory, ifn has been active on site in the areas of development of chemical technologies, environmental technologies and biotechnology since 1993. The ifn implements ideas from the first test phase on a laboratory and small-scale to large-scale systems. The UFZ is the only research facility of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centers that has been exclusively concerned with the interactions between humans and the environment in densely populated urban and industrial conurbations since 1991. The UFZ has been testing innovative area renovation concepts at the site since 2001.

Energy, technical gases, water / wastewater Electric energy (110 kV, 20 kV, 400 V), natural gas, steam, hydrogen, nitrogen, compressed air, condensate, drinking water, deionized water (DI water), service water, extinguishing water, process water (drinking water quality), recooling water, waste water disposal (industrial waste water, domestic dirt - and rainwater)
Infrastructure network Road network, rail network, cable routes, pipe bridges and routes, telecommunications network
Services Research & development, analytics, industrial and construction services, transport, medical care, culture and congress center, catering / canteen, start-up help (e.g. payroll accounting), municipal administration (Elsteraue)
Real estate / building lots Letting of commercial properties / offices, sale of building plots (total approx. 60 ha).

Contaminated sites of the site

The mineral oil hydrocarbons and benzene that were buried underground by the bombing raids in World War II contaminated the groundwater. According to investigations by the Federal Environment Agency , all aquifers in the area were affected. The groundwater contamination had spread slightly and, according to the Federal Environment Agency, remediation was impossible with reasonable means. Soil contamination should therefore be gradually contained or removed as part of a "major ecological project" by the State Agency for Exempting Contaminated Sites of the State of Saxony-Anhalt.

The Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ operates two test facilities at the site for the decontamination of soils with highly volatile hydrocarbons. Various techniques are used for this. These are soil heating with steam or radio waves as well as a system for the biological degradation of the pollutants. With the commissioning of a plant for groundwater remediation, the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park became a model location for the remediation of contaminated sites in 2007.

Established businesses

The companies based in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park are predominantly medium-sized, owner-managed companies with a focus on "sustainable chemistry". The products produced in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park range from adipic acid ( raw material for polyamide 6,6), high-quality base oils (waste oil recycling), wheat starch, special waxes for the paper and cosmetics industry, wax-based oil and chemical binders as well as special glues and adhesives through to production of bio natural gas (green gas). Two photovoltaic systems feed electricity into the park's electricity network.

Companies based in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park:

Manufacture of chemical products

Processing of renewable raw materials

Environmental technology and recovery

  • Plasticrecycling Zeitz GmbH & Co. KG (plastic granulates)
  • Puraglobe Germany GmbH (processing of used oils into base oils)

mechanical engineering

  • ZEMAG Clean Energy Technology GmbH (plants for coal processing, newly founded with the resumption of the ZEMAG company name )

Energy supply, water supply, sewage and waste disposal

  • Biorefinery Elsteraue GmbH (gas supply)
  • Envia Mitteldeutsche Energie AG (electricity supply)
  • Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbH (process water, recooling water, deionized water, steam, disposal of industrial and domestic wastewater)
  • Linde AG , GB Linde Gas (technical gases)
  • Progas GmbH & Co. KG (gas supply)
  • SBE Second Solar and Bioenergy Droßdorf GmbH & Co. KG (electricity supply)
  • Elsteraue solar park (electricity supply)
  • Zeitz solar park (electricity supply)
  • Stadtwerke Zeitz GmbH (gas supply)

Technical industrial services

  • Alexander & Partner Klima- und Kältetechnik GmbH (air conditioning and refrigeration technology)
  • Arcomet Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (rental of cranes)
  • Fire protection Horst Wilhelm (fire protection technology)
  • Giegold Elektro GmbH (electrical installation)
  • HL WILA GmbH (windows, doors, shutters, awnings, roller shutters, sun protection technology)
  • Intering GmbH (industrial buildings, industrial insulation, corrosion protection)
  • Käfer Montage GmbH (insulation technology)
  • KSB Service GmbH RSS Zeitz (pump and valve technology)
  • Weber Industrielle Rohrleitungsbau & Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG (industrial pipeline construction)

Transportation and storage

Information technology

  • Archikart Software GmbH (software programming)
  • Data Informatik GmbH (software and hardware)
  • EDV-Beratung Baumgarten GmbH (IT system consulting)

Architecture and engineering offices, technical, physical and chemical research

  • AEZ-Dienstleistungs-GmbH (construction and operation of wind turbines)
  • Dr. Drahn & Partner GmbH (environmental and laboratory analysis)

Research and Development

Recruitment

  • The p. A. GmbH Personalleasing (temporary employment)
  • Zeitzer innovative Arbeitsfördergesellschaft mbH (implementation of employment measures according to SGB)

other services

  • CineEvent GmbH (organization of cultural events)
  • Elsteraue community (public administration)
  • Hlawaty und zebel GbR (financial services)
  • Ralf Opelt culinary & culture event service (canteen operation, catering)
  • Event service Deuser (organization of cultural events, rental of seminar and congress rooms)
  • Weidner Dental Practice (dental care)

literature

  • Landesverband Nordost des VCI (Ed.): Structural Change in East German Chemistry , VCI Ost, Halle 1996
  • Hydrierwerk Zeitz GmbH: Implementation project for complete structural change , January 31, 1995
  • Hydrierwerk Zeitz GmbH: Development of a refinery site into a site for environmental technology and recycling , activity report of the supervisory board of Hydrierwerk Zeitz GmbH for the period 1991–1996, May 1996
  • Veronika Arndt, Heidrun Schwartz: Hydrogenation plant Zeitz - The history of a chemical company , Druckhaus Zeitz, Zeitz 1999
  • Audit report for the annual financial statements as of December 31, 2012 and management report for Infra-Zeitz Servicegesellschaft mbH

Web links

Commons : Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Resolution of the Burgenlandkreis district council: Development and rehabilitation of industrial and commercial areas in the Zeitz Chemical and Industrial Park, March 10, 2014
  2. ^ State institute for the clearance of contaminated sites of the State of Saxony-Anhalt, ÖGP hydrogenation plant Zeitz

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 8.1 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 52 ″  E