Dottikon ES Holding
| DOTTIKON ES HOLDING AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | CH0020739006 |
| founding | 1913 |
| Seat |
Dottikon , Switzerland
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| management | Markus Blocher (Chairman of the Management Board ) Markus Blocher ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Number of employees | 600 |
| sales | 174.8 million Swiss francs |
| Branch | Chemical industry |
| Website | www.dottikon.com |
| As of May 29, 2020 | |
The Dottikon ES Holding AG , based in Dottikon is an internationally active Swiss company focused on chemical safety critical reactions specializes and focus on the exclusive synthesis of fine chemicals for pharmaceutical companies and chemical industries concentrated. The Dottikon ES product range includes customer-specific active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediate products as well as industrial chemicals developed in-house . The company employs around 600 people and generated net sales of 174.8 million Swiss francs and a net profit of 33.2 million Swiss francs in the 2019/20 financial year. The Dottikon ES Holding is listed on the Swiss stock exchange SIX Swiss Exchange listed .
history
The company was founded in 1913 by Robert Aebi as Schweizerische Sprengstofffabrik AG (SSF) in Dottikon. Between the 1930s and 1970s, SSF developed various processes in the fields of nitration , hydrogenation and oxidation , through which the company increasingly turned away from the explosives industry and devoted itself to the chemical industry. These processes have been continuously developed until today, supplemented and combined with new technologies, and are used in the production of chemical intermediates.
On April 8, 1969, one of the largest explosion accidents in Switzerland occurred in the factory. 18 people lost their lives, 108 were injured, some seriously. The blast wave from the detonation damaged 1,300 buildings in Dottikon and the surrounding communities of Dintikon , Hägglingen , Villmergen and Wohlen . Liquid trinitrotoluene (TNT) exploded in the nitriding department , possibly due to incorrect manipulation. However, the exact cause of the disaster could never be fully clarified. The accident of 1969 was the fourth major explosion in the Pulveri after 1927 (several fatalities), 1956 (two fatalities) and 1964 (three injured).
In 1987, the Schweizerische Sprengstofffabrik AG was taken over by Ems-Chemie Holding AG and renamed Ems-Dottikon AG in 1990 .
The company , which had been renamed Dottikon Exclusive Synthesis AG under the umbrella of Dottikon ES Holding AG , was made independent again in March 2005 through a spin-off and was listed on the stock exchange through an IPO .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Dottikon: Dottikon Exclusive Synthesis , accessed on February 21, 2017.
- ↑ Bloomberg: DOTTIKON ES HOLDING AG-BR (DESN: SIX Swiss Exchange): Stock Quote & Company Profile , accessed on February 21, 2017.
- ↑ SWI swissinfo.ch, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation: Huge explosion in the "Pulveri": 18 dead and many injured. Retrieved April 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Aargauer Zeitung of July 27, 2012 ( online edition ), accessed on December 9, 2013.
- ^ L'Impartial of April 9, 1969 ( PDF ).