Romonta
| Romonta
|
|
|---|---|
 |
|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1922 (predecessor Riebeck) 1994 (Romonta GmbH) |
| Seat | Amsdorf , Saxony-Anhalt |
| Branch | Mining , chemistry |
| Website | romonta.de Wachs-und-mehr.de |
Romonta is a brown coal mining - and coal chemistry - companies in Amsdorf ( Sachsen-Anhalt ). It is the world's largest producer of montan wax .
Operating facilities
Romonta's main plant is the montan wax factory in Amsdorf ( 51 ° 27 ′ 43.9 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 1 ″ E, ). To obtain the brown coal , which is required for the preparation of the wax Romonta operates a proprietary opencast mine , the open pit Amsdorf .
For the transport of goods between the opencast mine, overburden dumps and production facilities, Romonta maintained an extensive works and mine railway network with its own routes and vehicles. From 1995 the operation of coal railways was switched to conveyor belts and most of the railroad facilities were dismantled. Some of the vehicles are exhibited in an open-air exhibition on the company's history in front of the main plant.
Formerly, other wax production plants and briquette factories belonged to the company, including in Wansleben am See , Röblingen- Copperhammer and Stedten . However, these systems are all shut down today.
As a side business, Romonta operates, among other things, a substitute fuel power plant in which, in addition to the lignite residues from wax production, other substitute fuels from processed industrial and household waste are burned. Generated electricity and process steam are used for the own supply, electricity surpluses are fed into the public grid.
The chimney of this power plant is 170 meters high.
In recent times Romonta has diversified its product range and also manufactures natural insulation materials .
history
From the middle of the 19th century, there were several smaller brown coal mines in the Oberröblinger lignite basin. The bitumen-rich lignite was used as fuel , but also as a raw material for chemical refinement. In 1905 A. Riebeck'sche Montanwerke built the first larger bitumen wax factory in Wansleben.
Today's Romonta factory in Amsdorf was also founded by Riebeck'schen Werke. In 1922, Riebeck had the first high-performance extraction system built at the Rießer mine near Amsdorf (coarse grain extraction using the chamber process). The process was later continuously improved, the plants expanded and Riebeck developed into a leading manufacturer of raw montan wax.
After the Second World War, part of the production facilities was dismantled as a reparation payment . From 1947, during the GDR era , operations in the factory under the VEB lignite plant " G. Sobottka " Röblingen am See were resumed. The montan wax was initially sold under the Riebeck brand ; until 1958, the name was ROMONTA (derived from RO h MONT anwachs from A msdorf ) changed. This product name later became the colloquial and ultimately the official name for the manufacturing company.
After the fall of the Wall , MIBRAG continued to operate the plant together with the opencast mine, the briquette factory in Stedten and the industrial power plant as operations management from 1990 . From 1994 the independent ROMONTA GmbH was founded, which was later sold by MIBRAG.
In May 2020 Romonta was taken over by the Getec Group .
Others
A soccer club emerged from the plant's company sports group, from which the 1. FC Romonta Amsdorf later formed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ROMONTA GmbH ( memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on www.braunkohle.de
- ↑ a b c P. Keck: Romonta GmbH Amsdorf - Property description , September 4, 2006, online at www.kupferspuren.eu ( Memento of October 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b c d e H. Frellstedt: ROMONTA GmbH - a medium-sized company in the lignite mining and processing industry , online at tu-freiberg.de (PDF; 15 kB)
- ^ Steffen Hartwich: Werkbahnen in Süddeutschland - Excursion reports - Excursions in February 2001
- ↑ a b Connecting railways at Röblingen a See station: Romonta , online at www.bahnmotive.de
- ↑ We are our own. In: braunkohle.de. DEBRIV Federal Association of Brown Coal, accessed on December 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Getec takes over Romonta and plans to build another EBS fuel power plant. In: www.bvse.de. bvse professional association for alternative fuels, waste wood and biogenic waste, accessed on August 20, 2020 .