Chemical Park Linz

The Linz Chemical Park is a 1 km² industrial area in the urban area of Linz , where numerous companies, mainly from the chemical industry, are located. The chemical park is connected to the motorway and rail network and is connected to the Danube waterway via the tank port.

history

Ostmark / Chemie Linz nitrogen works

Old management building of the former nitrogen works (2017)

The location was founded in 1939 as nitrogen works Ostmark AG from which the Austrian nitrogen works AG emerged in 1946 . From 1943 onwards it mainly produced fertilizers, later various chemical raw materials, pesticides, plastics and plasticizers, adhesives and pharmaceuticals.

In 1973 the name was changed to Chemie Linz AG . From the late 1980s onwards, subsidiaries (Chemie Linz, Agrolinz , CL Pharma) were outsourced and the group was subsequently divided into several individual companies. Chemie Linz is good part in the Viennese company Borealis risen (Borealis Agrolinz) , the area of fine chemicals came to the Dutch group DSM (DSM Fine Chemicals) , the pharmaceutical sector to the Swiss Nycomed .

Contaminated sites

The Chemie-Linz-Areal is the largest old chemical production site in Austria. It was poured in the former Danube floodplain. From 50 years of production, the pollution is likely to be considerable, probably mainly organic solvents and pesticides. At the eastern end of the site there was a landfill from 1954 to 1972. It cannot be ruled out that contamination will also find its way into the Danube. The chemical park is therefore registered with 91 ha in the Austrian Contaminated  Site Atlas ( Altlast O44).

Company in the Linz Chemical Park

• Bilfinger Chemserv
• Borealis Agrolinz Melamines
• Borealis polyolefins
• Patheon , part of Thermo Fisher Scientific (since 2016, formerly DSM , DPx )
• Esim Chemicals
• Nufarm
• Takeda (formerly DSM)

as well as numerous other companies or company branches.

Web links

• Website of the Linz Chemical Park

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Special case Upper Austria? - Industrial start-ups by the National Socialists in Upper Austria ; accessed on November 12, 2016.
2. ↑ Federal Environment Agency: Pollution O44: Linz Chemical Park. Online document in: Contaminated Sites Atlas , November 1999.
3. ↑ chemiepark.at: Patheon ; accessed on November 12, 2016.
4. ^ Thermo Fisher Scientific - US. Retrieved July 20, 2018 (American English). 
5. ^ Linz Chemical Park - other companies ; accessed on November 12, 2016.

Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 16.9 ″  N , 14 ° 19 ′ 28.2 ″  E