Jungbunzlauer
| Jungbunzlauer Holding AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1867 |
| Seat | Chur , Switzerland |
| management | Tom Knutzen (CEO) |
| Branch | biotechnology |
| Website | www.jungbunzlauer.com |
The Jungbunzlauer Holding AG is a biotechnology -Unternehmen based in Chur in Switzerland . The products manufactured include citric acid , xanthan , gluconates , lactic acid and sweeteners for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries as well as other industrial applications.
history
Ignatz Lederer built in 1867 in the North Bohemian Jungbunzlau a distillery for molasses . As early as 1901, the company's headquarters were relocated to Vienna in order to make better use of the opportunities offered by the rapidly growing capital of Austria-Hungary . In the same year a large distillery was bought in Pernhofen , a small town in the Pulkau valley . Pernhofen is a cadastral municipality in the town of Laa an der Thaya in northeastern Lower Austria, Mistelbach district , near the Czech border. The plant in Pernhofen lost almost all connections to Bohemia due to the two world wars.
In 1967 Karl Kahane bought the company. Today's Jungbunzlauer Holding AG is owned by the Kahane family.
Locations and products
The head office is in Basel , Switzerland. Production sites are Pernhofen near Laa an der Thaya (Austria), Ladenburg (Germany), Marckolsheim (France) and Port Colborne (Canada).
Today the company produces and sells citric acid as well as xanthan gum, gluconates, lactic acid and various sweeteners.
Rehabilitation of a landfill
In the last decade, a landfill in the municipality of Großharras (adjacent to the plant) had to be rehabilitated, which is a contaminated site of the Pernhofen plant and on which production waste has been deposited since 1962. The landfill adjoins the Jungbunzlau plant to the west and is located about seven kilometers west of Laa an der Thaya - about two kilometers from the Czech border.
Waste gypsum and commercial waste similar to household waste was deposited here on an area of 14 ha . The gypsum is a by-product in the production of citric acid. In addition to the plant, arable land and the Pulkau to the south border the landfill . The groundwater was contaminated before the renovation of 400 meters radius, but it was of no village for drinking water used Treatment.
literature
- Hlavačka, Milan: A Bohemian-Jewish corporate fairy tale with a bitter end. Ignatz Lederer and his "Jungbunzlauer" alcohol production in Bohemia. In: Prague Economic and Social History Communications 6 (2001/2002) 41–52.
Web links
- Official website
- Entry on Jungbunzlauer in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Jungbunzlauer gypsum landfill , Federal Environment Agency Vienna.
- Newspaper article on Jungbunzlauer in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .