Ruetgers Chemicals

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RÜTGERS Germany GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1849
Seat Castrop-Rauxel , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Günther Weymans
Number of employees 722
sales 528.6 million euros
Branch chemistry
Website www.ruetgers-chemicals.de
As of December 31, 2014

Refinery for coal tar
The Rütgers Chemicals at night
View from the west

The Rutgers Chemicals (until 2002 Rütgerswerke AG , 2009: Rutgers Germany GmbH ) is a German chemical company based in Castrop-Rauxel , the focus Teererzeugnisse produced.

Locations

The company operates the world's largest refinery for coal tar in Castrop-Rauxel . The starting product is processed into pitches for aluminum extraction (electrodes) and the carburization of steel . In addition, technical oils, BTX aromatics, creosote, carbon black, and the like are used. a. for the manufacture of car tires, as well as naphthalene .

The company operates two of its own ports on the Rhine-Herne Canal .

  • Port of Rütgers in Castrop-Rauxel ...

  • ... and at the RHK in Duisburg

Other locations of the parent company Rütgers Group are in Duisburg, Hanau , Zelzate (Belgium), Hamilton (Canada), Candiac (Canada), Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Poland) and Shanghai .

history

The company was founded in 1849 by Julius Rütgers . The company's first products were tar oil- impregnated railway sleepers for the prosperous railway industry. In 1897 the tar products factory Rauxel-Westphalia was founded in what was then Rauxel . The factory benefited from the geographical proximity to the hard coal mines Victor and Ickern .

In 1898, the Rütgerswerke AG was founded , in which various holdings were combined. The company with a share capital of 5 million gold marks was based in Berlin . In 1910 the Rütgerswerke founded the subsidiary Bakelite . During the Second World War, a large part of the production facilities was lost, especially the works in Silesia . In 1947 the Rütgerswerke relocated to Frankfurt am Main . Over the course of time, the Rütgerswerke acquired a number of investments, for example the Isola Group in Düren in 1955 , and the Chemische Fabrik v. Heyden in Munich and in 1959 the Ruberoid works in Hamburg. Until 1977, Rütgerswerke AG was also a major shareholder in Beton- und Monierbau , based in Düsseldorf.

In 1975 Ruhrkohle  AG took over the Rütgerswerke. In 1996 the company relocated to Essen .

On January 1, 2008, the company was sold by the Evonik Group to the financial investor Triton Partners . On October 22, 2012, Triton announced the sale of RÜTGERS to Rain CII Carbon LLC , a subsidiary of the Indian industrial group Rain Industries Limited . Rain Industries produces calcined petroleum coke and supplies it to the aluminum industry globally. The company has calcination plants in the United States, India and China, and three deep-sea ports. The value of the company was around 702 million euros. In 2012, Rütgers employed around 1,000 people worldwide at eight locations.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Management
  2. ↑ a b Federal Gazette : Consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2014
  3. ↑ Rolf Brüning: With steam on the north-south route between Main and Fulda = color picture rarities from the Dr. Rolf Brüning 9. Hövelhof 2014, p. 15.
  4. ^ The Wall Street Journal: Rain CII Buys Coal Tar Maker Ruetgers for EUR702M From Triton ( Memento of October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of October 22, 2012

Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 27.7 "  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 51.5"  E