European Salt Company
| esco - european salt company
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 2002 |
| resolution | 2019 |
| Reason for dissolution | Merger into K + S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH |
| Seat | Hanover , Germany |
| management | Erich Krug |
| Number of employees | 1,400 (2006) |
| sales | € 400 million (2006) |
| Branch | Salt production |
The European Salt Company GmbH & Co. KG , or esco for short, was a German mining company. It was founded in 2002 as a joint subsidiary of K + S and Solvay . Since 2004 it has been 100% owned by K + S AG. The company is based in Hanover . In 2019 it was merged with K + S KALI GmbH to form K + S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH .
Locations
At a total of 16 locations across Europe, Esco produces around five million tons of salt annually with around 1400 employees. The largest location is Bernburg with over 400 employees.
Production sites
- Bernburg , Saxony-Anhalt ( Bernburg rock salt mine )
- Rheinberg - Borth , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Borth Salt Mine )
- Grasleben , Lower Saxony ( Braunschweig-Lüneburg rock salt works )
- Staudt , Rhineland-Palatinate
- Harlingen , the Netherlands
- Dombasle-sur-Meurthe , France
- Bayonne , France
- Torrelavega , Spain
- Póvoa de Santa Iria , Portugal
- Alverca , Portugal
- Olhão , Portugal
Sales offices
- Gothenburg , Sweden
- Brussels-Diegem , Belgium
- Levallois-Perret , France
- Alverca, Portugal
- Poznań , Poland
- Prague , Czech Republic
- Verona , Italy
Fonts
- Ulrich Göbel, Thomas Wolperding (Red.): 100 Years of the Bernburg Salt Works. 1912-2012 . With texts by Rüdiger Bünsow et al. Ed .: esco - European Salt Company GmbH & Co. KG. Hanover 2012, ISBN 978-3-935971-63-8 .
literature
- Waldemar R. Röhrbein : European Salt Company. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 167.
Web links
- Official website
- European Salt Company in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ K + S bundles business in K + S Minerals and Agriculture GmbH. K + S Aktiengesellschaft, November 4, 2019, accessed on February 21, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 21.18 " N , 9 ° 44 ′ 33.29" E