Gersthofen industrial park

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Aerial view of the Gersthofens industrial park

The Gersthofen industrial park is located in the north of Gersthofen near Augsburg in Bavaria and has developed from a chemical plant of Hoechst AG into a production and service location.

history

The Gersthofen branch of Farbwerke Hoechst AG was founded on the site of today's industrial park in 1899 because a run-of-river power plant on the Lech Canal , which was diverted from the Lech , was guaranteed here in 1904 thanks to a run-of-river power plant built at the same time by Elektrizitäts-AG formerly W. Lahmeyer & Co. and was secured in 1911 by building two coal-fired power plants.

An area initially used as a reservoir for the Lech Canal was later used as an expansion area. Synthetic indigo was to be produced in Gersthofen . In 1902, the plant began producing chromic acid , quinone and phthalic acid . The first production started on March 7, 1902. In 1905 the product monochloroacetic acid was added.

After IG Farben was founded in 1927, the production of waxes began at the site. After the end of the war, the plant was under US administration as Lech-Chemie from 1945 to 1951 , but when the IG Farbenindustrie was disentangled as the Gersthofen plant, it was returned to the Hoechst plant. The focus of the Gersthofen plant was on the production of waxes, polymer additives and intermediate products based on acetic acid. In addition, there were facilities for the production of fiber intermediates (BU Fiber intermediates) and polyester granulates ( PET ).

In 1958, the subsidiary Abieta Chemie on the southern edge of the site started producing emulsifiers from synthetic rubber . At the end of the 1960s, the chemical plant had more than 2,000 employees, for which there were 378 company apartments. In 1997 Clariant GmbH took over the Gersthofen plant and developed it into the Gersthofen industrial park in 2002.

Around 1,200 people are currently employed in ten companies on the approximately 35 hectare site with a siding. The focus is still on the production of specialty chemicals by the factories of five global companies ( Archroma , Kraton Chemical, CABB , Clariant and INVISTA).

Todays situation

Main entrance to the site

The resident companies are:

  • Archroma Germany GmbH
  • Kraton Chemical GmbH
  • Bilfinger Maintenance GmbH
  • CABB GmbH
  • Clariant Plastics & Coatings (Germany) GmbH
  • IGS Netze GmbH
  • Infraserv Logistics GmbH
  • INVISTA Resins & Fibers GmbH
  • IMPERIAL Chemical Transport GmbH
  • MVV Industriepark Gersthofen GmbH

The operating company of the industrial park is MVV Industriepark Gersthofen GmbH, a 100% subsidiary of MVV Enamic GmbH in Mannheim. With almost 200 employees, MVV offers the companies located in the industrial park an energy and media supply, a typical chemical infrastructure and services. The core competence of the site operator is services in the areas of safety and environmental protection.

With around 100 trainees, MVV Industriepark Gersthofen GmbH is one of the largest training companies in the Augsburg district and trains junior staff in nine different professions for their own needs and for the companies in the industrial park:

In order to supply its own energy, the MVV Group invested 30 million euros in the construction of a substitute fuel power plant in 2008 , which has been supplying the companies in the Gersthofen industrial park with process steam since mid-2009. Since then, on the basis of combined heat and power , the energy needs of companies have been covered by recycling waste materials. The production waste water from the industrial park has been treated with the aid of a biological sewage treatment plant since 1975.

Others

Thanks to the supply of hydrogen from the electrolysis at the site, a station for filling gas balloons could be set up near the factory premises . As a result, Gersthofen developed into an important balloon launch site that is still active today . On May 27, 1931 from Augsburg, Auguste Piccard on board the FNRS-1 with Gersthofer hydrogen set a balloon height record of 15,785 m as part of stratospheric research.

literature

  • Herbert Salomon: The Gersthofen plant of Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft . In: Johannes Krauße (Ed.): Chronicle of the City of Gersthofen: 969 - 1989. Gersthofen 1989, p. 325-347 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: A power plant shows itself in all its glory . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on March 3, 2017]).
  2. ↑ Gersthofen monument list
  3. ↑ a b From the chemical plant to the industrial park. MVV Enamic, accessed on March 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ balloon sport

Coordinates: 48 ° 26 ′ 32.3 "  N , 10 ° 52 ′ 59"  E