Danube chemistry
| Donau Chemie AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1828 |
| Seat |
Vienna , Austria
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| management | James Schober, CEO |
| Number of employees | 1,073 (09/2018) |
| sales | 374 million EUR (09/2018) |
| Branch | chemical industry |
| Website | www.donau-chemie-group.com |
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The Donau Chemie AG is a chemical company with about 1,000 employees and manufacturing plants in eleven countries, Alain de Krassny belongs. The company's headquarters are in Vienna . The focus is on the production of industrial chemicals such as sulfuric acid , chlor-alkali electrolysis products and calcium carbide , the packaging and trading of industrial chemicals and the production of activated carbon .
The group has four business areas: BU Donau Chemie, BU Donauchem, BU Donau Carbon and BU Donau Kanol.
history
Donau Chemie AG was founded in 1938, shortly before Austria was annexed to the Third Reich, from various companies in the country's chemical industry. These were:
- Wagenmann, Seybel & Co. (later Austrian HIAG-Werke Holzverkohlungsindustrie AG), Vienna-Liesing
- Skoda-Wetzler , Moosbierbaum refinery
- Continental Society for Applied Electricity (Basel), carbide factory in Landeck .
In the Third Reich , Donau Chemie became part of IG Farben . During the Second World War , the plants in Moosbierbaum were destroyed and in Liesing heavily damaged.
After the reprivatisation in 1958 (again Donau Chemie ) and partial reconstruction, the production facilities were continued in other locations as part of multiple changes of ownership (shareholders included the companies Rhône-Poulenc , Montana and Creditanstalt ), for example in Pischelsdorf (formerly the Moosbierbaum refinery ), Absam , in Vienna's Lobau , in Brückl and Ried in the Traunkreis .
HIAG, later as a GmbH , remained in Liesing until the 1970s with a limited business area (including vinegar production). A storage and bottling facility of what is now “Donauchem Austria” also remained on the factory premises in Liesing.
A management buy-out took place in 1997 when the previous General Director Alain de Krassny took over the company from Rhone-Poulenc and Creditanstalt.
In 2001 part of an investment package of around 2.3 million euros was invested in storage and filling facilities.
As a result of the attempted remediation of a contaminated site of Donau Chemie in Brückl that had existed since 1926 by the Wietersdorfer Group, the HCB scandal in Görtschitztal occurred in 2014 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b key figures. Donau Chemie, accessed on November 30, 2018 (fiscal year 2017/2018 (as of September 2018)).
- ^ History of Danube Chemistry .