Süd-Chemie
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1941 (1857 as BAG) |
| resolution | 2011/12 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Clariant , name given up in 2012 after integration |
| Seat | Munich , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 6,485 |
| sales | EUR 1.072 billion |
| Branch | Chemical industry |
| Website | www.sud-chemie.com |
| As of December 31, 2009 | |
The Süd-Chemie AG was a global specialty chemicals -Unternehmen headquartered in Munich , the 1857 u. a. was founded by Justus von Liebig as the Bavarian AG for chemical and agricultural-chemical products (BAG). In 2011 it was taken over by Clariant .
Key figures
In 2009, the group's turnover was 1,071.6 million euros with an EBIT of 103.5 million euros, and 6,485 people were employed worldwide (as of December 31, 2009).
history
In 1857 the Bayerische AG for chemical and agricultural-chemical products (BAG) was founded. In 1859, the BAG began producing the artificial mineral fertilizer superphosphate .
In 1906 Erdwerke Kronwinkl Franz Schmid & Co. GmbH (EKFS) for oil and beverage refining was founded in Moosburg . In 1909 the EKFS was renamed Tonwerk Moosburg A. & M. Ostenrieder GmbH. In 1923 Sirius Werke AG was founded in Deggendorf and in 1925 BAG expanded its product range to include fuller's earth .
In 1930 Tonwerk Moosburg and Sirius-Werke merged to form Vereinigte Bleicherdefabriken AG (VBF) and in 1941 VBF and BAG merged to form Süd-Chemie AG.
Süd-Chemie became the market leader in the bleaching earth business and the leading independent catalyst manufacturer in Europe. At the end of the 1950s, the first bentonite- based catalysts were produced. In 1958/1959 the joint venture Girdler-Südchemie Nahrungsmittel GmbH was founded with Chemetron Corp., Chicago / USA. The aim was to produce catalysts for fertilizer production , petroleum, vegetable oil - vegetable fat - and fat processing .
In 1974 the entire catalyst business of Chemetron (Girdler Chemical Inc.) in Louisville (Kentucky) was taken over and in 1977 Girdler Chemical Inc. took over United Catalysts Inc., Louisville / USA. At the end of the 1970s, the catalyst division was expanded through further investments in Japan, India, South Africa and the Middle East.
In 1996 the packaging manufacturer Airsec SA, Paris / France was taken over. In 1997, the catalyst specialist Montecatini Tecnologie SpA , Novara / Italy, was taken over by the Italian conglomerate Montedison . In 2001, the catalyst activities in Germany were merged at the Heufeld site .
In 2002, business in China was expanded and a majority stake in the catalyst manufacturer in Panjin and a foundry bentonite manufacturer in Jianping were acquired. In 2003 a joint venture was concluded with Scientific Design, Little Ferry / USA. In 2004 the foundry area was strengthened through the acquisition of metallurgy product sales from SKW Metallurgie AG in Düsseldorf. In 2005, a majority stake in Phostech Lithium Inc. in Québec / Canada, manufacturer of lithium iron phosphate , was acquired.
2005 Süd-Chemie by the US portfolio companies was One Equity Partners (OEP) accepted and the Company focused on its core businesses: the business area Functional additives (rheological additives) and the Copisil business (additives for carbonless breakdown papers ) were sold. Entry into polymerization catalysis began through a joint venture in Shanghai / China. In 2005/2006 production for gas-to-liquids (GTL) catalysts started in Doha / Qatar. In 2006 the pet products division was sold.
In 2008 Süd-Chemie acquired a majority stake in Alvigo AS, Tallinn / Estonia, a leading catalyst manufacturer in the successor states of the Soviet Union . In addition, a number of smaller companies were taken over in the foundry business, thereby expanding the leading market position.
The two divisions of Adsorbents and Catalysts are divided into the divisions Adsorbents & Additives BAA, Protective Packaging BPE, Foundry Products & Special Resins BFR, Water Treatment BWT and Catalyst Technology BCT and Energy & Environment BEE.
In February 2011 it was announced that the Swiss specialty chemicals group Clariant is taking over Süd-Chemie for around 2.5 billion francs. On November 30, 2011, the exclusion of minority shareholders was entered in the commercial register and Clariant AG became the only shareholder. In 2012, a good year after the takeover, Clariant deleted Süd-Chemie's name and logo and announced that it would cut a good 700 jobs by 2013. Only the CEO Günter von Au remained of the management and received a seat on the Clariant board of directors . Süd-Chemie's shareholders are represented on the supervisory board with a total of 15%.
Products
The product range included the food and feed additives, foundry additives, detergent, paper and specialty additives, civil engineering, foundry products, special resins, protective packaging for pharmaceuticals and diagnostics as well as electronics and logistics, plastic additives, industrial water treatment, drinking and wastewater treatment, catalysts for chemistry, Petrochemicals, refineries, olefin polymerization, air purification, fuel cell technology, battery materials, including electrode materials for lithium iron phosphate batteries and lithium titanate batteries .
Locations
In Germany, in addition to the headquarters in Munich, there were other locations in Moosburg, Heufeld, Gammelsdorf, Duisburg, Fuldabrück, Untersteukirchen, Bitterfeld, Bendorf, Wülfrath and Hilden.
There were other locations in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Spain, France, Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Sweden, Ukraine, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Peru , the USA as well as in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, China, Singapore, Malaysia, India, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, in Australia, Malawi and South Africa.
Süd-Chemie began building what is currently the largest second-generation bioethanol plant in Germany . In April 2012, this large demonstration plant, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the new Bavarian BioCampus in Straubing and can produce up to 1,000 tons of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural waste, was inaugurated. The project comprises an investment volume of around € 16,000,000 and accompanying research projects of around € 12,000,000.
Web links
- Trends in lithium-ion batteries , Dr. Interview with Norbert Schall, YouTube, accessed on July 6, 2012
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Süd-Chemie in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Group structure ( memo of November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Clariant is heading for a showdown. In: luzernerzeitung.ch. Luzerner Zeitung , November 25, 2017, accessed on December 23, 2017 .
- ↑ m4.de: Clariant (Süd-Chemie) starts the biofuel plant of the future in Straubing ( Memento from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Press release from July 20, 2012.
- ↑ Sugar Journal e-newsletter, August 2, 2010