Chempark Dormagen

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The CHEMPARK Dormagen (formerly Bayerwerk Dormagen or Chemical Park Dormagen ) is a 360 hectare area in Dormagen and Cologne-Worringen , on which companies from the chemical industry have been concentrating since 1917. Around 10,500 (as of 02/2015) employees work here. (All information without INEOS Köln GmbH) The CHEMPARK is delimited by the Rhine and the A57 and divided into two halves by the Cologne-Neuss railway line.

View from the right bank of the Rhine

At the Dormagen site, mainly pesticides, polymers, plastics, rubbers, isocyanates and organic intermediates are manufactured. There is also an important research and development center for polyurethanes here.

View from the south

Around 60 companies are settling in CHEMPARK (as of 2014). Among others from:

Others

Fire on March 17, 2008, taken from a distance of 18 km

On March 17, 2008, a major fire broke out on the adjacent INEOS Köln GmbH site, caused by a burst pipeline from which ethene (also outdated, ethylene, ethylene) escaped. The fire ignited in the afternoon, spread to an acrylonitrile tank and could not be smothered with extinguishing foam until several hours later in the night . The glow of the fire could be observed for miles in the night sky after dark. According to the fire brigades involved in the fire fighting, it was the largest operation in the Cologne area since the Second World War.

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Commons : Chempark Dormagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Serious incident in a chemical plant in Cologne". Fire protection Deutsche Feuerwehr-Zeitung 8/2008, pp. 592–606

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 34 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 19 ″  E