Dead Sea Works
Coordinates: 31 ° 2 ′ 5 ″ N , 35 ° 22 ′ 16 ″ E
| Dead Sea Works | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Private |
| founding | 1929 |
| Seat | |
| Branch | Chemistry , extraction of minerals |
| Website | www.iclfertilizers.com |
Dead Sea Works ( Hebrew מפעלי ים המלח, Mif'alei Jam HaMelach ) is an Israeli potash salt plant in Sdom on the coast of the Dead Sea in Israel .
history
The company was founded in 1930 by Mose Nowomeisky and was known as the Palestine Potash Company . It had been a profitable company since 1936, despite competition from the German potash cartel , which offered potash below cost.
During the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, the northern half was occupied by the Arab Legion , who destroyed the facility.
Dead Sea Works is a former state-owned company which was run by the Israeli Ministry of Development . In 1953 it was renamed Dead Sea Works . Since 1975 the company has been owned by Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL), which was privatized from 1992 to 1995 through an IPO. Today Dead Sea Works is part of the ICL Fertilizer division.
Dead Sea Works ranks fourth worldwide in the mining of potash products. The company also provides magnesium chloride , industrial salt, aircraft de-icing , bath salts , table salt and raw material here for the cosmetics industry. It has a customer base in over 60 countries. Dead Sea Works is part of the fertilizer division of Israel Chemicals Ltd. Located in the southern Dead Sea basin, it breaks down chemicals and exports them worldwide.
In addition to mining the minerals, the company also extracts salt through evaporation of the sea water. The company has been accused by conservationists of polluting the surrounding area and contributing to the water loss of the Dead Sea.
tourism
On the shores of Dead Sea Works are a few vacation hotels that are frequented by visitors to the Dead Sea. The holidaymakers then regularly take the salt bath in the industrial salt fields (evaporation ponds) of Dead Sea Works.
Narrow gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway was used for the internal transport of the minerals and the workers used to mine them.
Rail vehicles of the narrow-gauge railway
| Manufacturer | image | description |
|---|---|---|
| Orenstein & Koppel RL 1 |  |
Diesel locomotives with box trucks, 1934–1939 |
| Orenstein & Koppel |  |
Diesel locomotive with double exhaust, 1944 |
| Self-made |  |
Bogie passenger car for transporting workers from the camp to the SDOM factory, 1944 |
| Brookville Locomotive Company |  |
Brookville diesel locomotive imported from Pennsylvania , 1944 |
| Self-made | _-_WORKERS_DRIVING_TO_THE_EVAPORATION_POOLS_AT_THE_SDOM_POTASH_FACTORY_IN_THE_DEAD_SEA.jpg) |
Draisine for the transport of workers, 1944i |
| Unknown |  |
Wooden tilting lorries, 1944 |
gallery
Palestine Potash Ltd., 1945
Dead Sea Works 2012
Aerial view of the evaporation ponds
Part of the company
Individual evidence
- ^ The political economy of Israel: From ideology to stagnation, Yakir Plessner
- ^ The political economy of Israel: From ideology to stagnation, Yakir Plessner
- ^ The Building of the Israeli State Sector, Case Study: The Palestine Potash Ltd. ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2011 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.
- ↑ a b Dead Sea Works
- ↑ History | ICL - Where Needs Take Us. (No longer available online.) In: www.icl-group.com. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 2, 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.
- ↑ Case Study: Dead Sea Works - Sdom, Israel ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Case Study: Dead Sea Works - Sdom, Israel ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ John Ward Anderson: For Dead Sea, a Slow and Seemingly Inexorable Death (English) , The Washington Post . May 19, 2005. Retrieved November 7, 2007.
- ^ Daniel Estrin: Dead Sea threatened both by shrinking and flooding (English) . In: Huffington Post , June 13, 2011. Retrieved June 18, 2013. "Environmentalists accuse the company of profiting at the expense of the ecology."
- ↑ In limbo . ( tagesspiegel.de [accessed on January 2, 2017]).
