Industry Center Obernburg
The Industrie Center Obernburg (ICO) is an industrial park on the edge of the Rhine-Main area , around 50 km southeast of Frankfurt am Main and around 20 km south of Aschaffenburg. It is located on the eastern bank of the Main opposite the city of Obernburg am Main . The area covers 175 hectares with 65 buildings, which are located in the districts of Markt Elsenfeld and the city of Erlenbach am Main . More than 150,000 m² of expansion space can already be used for new settlements. Further industrial areas of around 40 hectares are also to be developed for industrial use as the Erlenbach industrial park.
The Industrie Center Obernburg has a trimodal transport connection ( waterway , rail, road) and is easily accessible via the expressway ( B 469 ), which has been developed like a motorway . A separate train station with a stop (Glanzstoffwerke) and an industrial track connect the location with the rail network. A landing stage on the Main links the location with the economic centers on the trans-European water transport network as well as with the north-western European ports in the Rhine-Maas Delta (the ARA ports ) and the Black Sea .
The on-site power plant operated by Kraftwerk Obernburg GmbH ensures that all types of energy are generated for the companies based on the site. A gas turbine operated according to the principle of combined heat and power has been feeding the electricity generated into the public grid since 1996 and supplying the Miltenberg district with environmentally friendly electrical energy. The connection to the distribution network takes place at the 20 kV medium voltage level in the E.ON Bayern electricity network. The local companies use the resulting heat in the form of steam to operate their production facilities.
The large chimney of the power plant is 186 meters high.
history
The location was founded in 1924 as a production facility for textile viscose yarns of the Vereinigte Glanzstoff-Fabriken AG . It was also founded because the then structurally weak surrounding area was predominantly rural or characterized by home tailoring and suffered from high unemployment in the years after the First World War . The municipalities in the surrounding area, from which around 50% of the workforce originate to this day, experienced a sustainable upgrade and strong personnel and infrastructural growth through the industrial complex. After the production of textile viscose had been established, the manufacture of technical viscose yarns began in 1938, which is mainly used as a reinforcement material in the carcass of car tires.
In the 1950s, fiber production was expanded to include synthetic yarns such as polyester and polyamide . Since the 1970s and 1980s, the location has increasingly developed into the most important production facility for high-quality yarns for technical applications in Europe due to the expansion of production capacities. For many decades, the location, where a corporate research institute with approx. 300 employees and an in-house engineering office with approx. 50 employees had existed since 1945, was the largest employer in the Bavarian Lower Main region. The highest number of employees with almost 7,000 was reached in the mid-1970s. As a result, the ICO is of central importance for the structural and economic development of the local communities and the entire area to this day.
In its 95-year history, the location also changed its name several times when the parent company changed its name from Glanzstoff to Enka, Akzo Nobel and Acordis , until the new name Industrie Center Obernburg was chosen in 2003. The background to the last change was the split up of the previous business areas of the Acordis Group and their separate sale. At the same time, the operating company Mainsite Services was founded, in which all technical, analytical and administrative areas of the site are combined. The former group branches located in the ICO were converted into legally independent GmbHs with the aim of a stronger focus on the respective market segments. The former corporate research institute was closed in 2000 and the engineering office was integrated into the operating company Mainsite. In 2010 the engineering office and the workshops were merged as a subsidiary of Mainsite under the name Mainsite Technologies GmbH. As part of the operating company's focus on its location services, Mainsite Technologies GmbH was sold to the Munich-based private equity company Callista Private Equity in November 2018 and renamed MainTech Systems GmbH.
The location is still a household name among the population of the surrounding area under the names "Glanzstoff", "Akzo" or "Acordis".
Company on site
The more than 35 companies in the Industrie Center Obernburg together employ around 3,000 people (May 2018). In addition to the 15 companies that emerged from the previous group structure, other companies from the medical technology, plastics technology, paints and varnishes, reaction technology, logistics, chemistry and industrial services sectors have settled in the ICO since 2003 and use it as a platform for the operation of their companies.
A selection of companies:
Mainsite GmbH & Co.KG
The operating company and owner of the properties and buildings of the ICO is Mainsite GmbH & Co. KG . It provides the local companies with an infrastructure tailored to their needs (energy supply, fire brigade, occupational safety / health and environmental protection, plant protection, etc.) and offers various overarching industrial and administrative services.
PHP Fibers GmbH
The company produces technical polyamide yarns for airbags, as reinforcement material for car tires, for hoses, fishing nets, etc., as well as technical polyester yarns for applications such as seat belts, wide fabrics, conveyor belts, sails and ropes, building textiles and bill boards. It now also includes the Japanese company founded by Toyobo in September 2013 as the first in the Miltenberg district under the name PHP Breathair
Enka GmbH & Co.KG
The Enka GmbH & Co. KG produces textile Viscosegarne for fashionable women's clothing and lining fabrics.
Cordenka GmbH & Co.KG
The company Cordenka is a global leader in technical rayon , which is produced mostly for the tire industry.
Analytik Service Obernburg GmbH
Formerly part of Akzo Nobel's central research, analytics with around 50 employees was spun off from Mainsite GmbH in April 2017 and is now part of the SKZ group as an independent GmbH . The analytics service offers services specifically for the areas of automotive suppliers, plastics processing, medical technology and man-made fibers.
Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH
Evonik Nutrition & Care GmbH (formerly 3M Deutschland GmbH) produces microporous polymers and additives for the plastics industry on site.
Low and Bonar
In Obernburg, Low and Bonar GmbH produces nonwovens and three-dimensional polymer structure mats for use in automobile construction as well as earthwork components and drainage systems.
AB Service GmbH
As a resident service company with around 50 employees from the region, the AB Service GmbH is on site. The company has specialized in the cleaning of complex production systems as well as the maintenance cleaning of the premises and the outdoor area.
B. Braun Avitum Saxonia GmbH, Excorlab
The companies B. Braun Avitum Saxonia GmbH (formerly Membrane Adsorption Technologies GmbH) and Excorlab deal with membranes for medical applications (blood purification) and studies in the field of extracorporeal systems.
Hemmelrath Lackfabrik GmbH
Hemmelrath Lackfabrik GmbH produces clearcoats for the automotive industry on the site.
Research and Development
Since 2010 there has been a "center for scientific services" on the premises of the former corporate research institute on the ICO site, supported by funding from the Free State of Bavaria and the district of Miltenberg, municipalities and regional companies (free use of rooms, grants for operating costs, etc.) und Transfer " , or ZeWiS for short, from Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences . It deals with application-oriented research in the fields of materials, automotive, intelligent systems and automation, energy efficiency, information technology and information systems, and design-oriented research.
From 2011 to 2014, as part of ZeWiS, under the name " mainproject " there was a project funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) to transfer knowledge and harness the innovation potential of Aschaffenburg University for small and medium-sized companies in the region. The ICO location operator Mainsite GmbH & Co.KG is involved in mainproject as a partner from industry.
A new edition of the project called " mainproject 2018 " ran until May 2018 , also funded by the European Social Fund. The topics dealt with in the project phase included: information and communication technologies, localization and communication solutions, Industry 4.0, efficient production technologies, process innovation, automation, material cycles and resource strategy, innovative aspects of corporate management, in particular IT-supported and knowledge-intensive processes and services.
A project called " mainproject digital " has been running since June 2018, again funded by the European Social Fund
Others
Due to its long tradition, the site offers a number of interesting facets in terms of industrial architecture from the past 80 years and is therefore also part of the route of the industrial culture Rhine-Main Bavarian Lower Main .
literature
- OA: Glanzstoff 1939-1964, Wuppertal, 1964.
- Asperger, Karl-Heinz: From Glanzstoff to Enka 1969–1985, Wuppertal, 1990.
- Berdami, Thilo: 1924–1999: 75 years of the Obernburg site, Obernburg, 1999, commemorative publication for the 75th anniversary of the Obernburg site.
- Langenbruch, Theodor: Glanzstoff 1899-1949, Wuppertal, 1985.
- Vaubel Ludwig: Glanzstoff-Enka-Aku-Akzo, company management in the national and international field of tension 1929–1978, Haan, 1986.
- Wicht, Wolfgang E .: Glanzstoff, On the history of the chemical fiber of a company and its workforce, Neustadt / Aisch, 1992, Bergische Forschungen Volume XXII.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Network Agency power plant list (nationwide; all network and transformer levels) as of July 2nd, 2012. ( Microsoft Excel file, 1.6 MiB) Archived from the original on July 22, 2012 ; Retrieved July 21, 2012 .
- ↑ Analytik Service Obernburg: News, events and dates. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
- ^ Route of industrial culture (Bayerischer Untermain III). (PDF) Initiative Bayerischer Untermain, March 2006, accessed on July 13, 2009 (German).
Web links
- Homepage of the industrial center Obernburg
- Homepage of the operating company Mainsite
- From Glanzstoff to ICO - home and tourist office Obernburg
- Center for Scientific Services and Transfer Aschaffenburg
- Main project digital
Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 49 ″ N , 9 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ E