Sodawerk Staßfurt
| Ciech, Sodawerk Stassfurt GmbH & Co. KG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | July 27, 1882 |
| Seat | Staßfurt |
| management | Frank Pommerenke (Managing Director) |
| Branch | chemistry |
| As of December 8, 2017 | |
The Sodawerk Staßfurt is a German manufacturer of Ammoniaksoda and soda. It has been producing ammonia soda using limestone and rock salt deposits for 130 years . In 2007 the plant was taken over by the Ciech company and a year later the new production facility for the production of heavy soda was put into operation. Along with the Remondis waste incineration plant and TechniSat Teledigital GmbH, it is the most important production unit in Staßfurt-Nord .
Companies
With an annual production capacity of more than 560,000 tons, the plant has a market share of almost 30% in Germany, and as a subsidiary of Ciech SA it is one of the top 10 production sites in the world. In addition to heavy soda , light soda , baking powder and sodium carbonate are also produced there. The company is an important employer for the region, and it is also a geostrategically important location. B. played an important role in the takeover of Ciech SA. It can also be supplied with limestone from the surrounding limestone works near Förderstedt . In addition, the plant has its own freight yard , from which the products can be picked up, but also on the company's own light railroad from the Staßfurt soda plant . B. the limestone can be delivered. Six EL 12 locomotives are used here as traction means .
history
Until 1990
The foundation stone for the company was laid on July 27, 1882 by the corporation of the chemical factory Magdeburg-Buckau. In July 1883, soda production began using the ammonia-soda process and the manufacture of caustic soda . On August 4, 1884, the plant was temporarily shut down due to technical difficulties. In 1885, production was resumed and increased to a daily production of ten tons of calcined soda. In 1888, crystal soda was added. In 1921 the property went to Goldschmidt AG and thus the production of calcined soda rose to 75 tons per day. In 1925, the production of sodium hydrogen carbonate began. In 1927, 50% of the ownership of the soda factory was divided between Goldschmidt AG and Preussag Berlin, which secured the raw material base rock salt and lignite. In April 1945 production was stopped again due to the end of the Second World War and only resumed in December 1945. On March 26, 1946, large production sections such as B. the caustic soda factory, which was completely dismantled, and the name changed to Industrie-Werke Sachsen-Anhalt, soda factory Staßfurt. After a construction period of one and a half years, soda plant II went into operation on July 19, 1952, increasing the output to 300 tons of calcined soda per day. In 1951 the name was changed to VVB (Z) "Alkali Sodafabrik Staßfurt" and in 1952 to "VEB Sodawerk ' Fred Oelßner ' Staßfurt". On January 1, 1965, the Staßfurt and Bernburg plants were merged to form VEB Vereinigte Sodawerke Bernburg-Staßfurt. In 1966 the soda factory I was closed with the later aim of a restoration.
Reprivatisation by the Treuhandanstalt
On June 19, 1991, the company was reprivatised by the Treuhandanstalt , when the company was sold to the Danish company Lars Christensen A / S. On October 12, 1993, the Staßfurt soda plant was the first chemical company in the new federal states to be tested and certified according to the European quality standard DIN EN ISO 9001 . In 1995 the Munich BVT-Finanz-Gruppe acquired a majority stake in the plant and the name finally changed to Sodawerk Staßfurt GmbH & Co. KG. In 1996, an industrial power plant with gas and steam turbines went into operation on the former site of the Achenbach factory. Between 1997 and 1998 the soda factory was completely rebuilt. In 1995, after the completion of the investment stages in Plant II, Plant I was closed. In 2001, after the demolition of the decommissioned production facilities in Soda Plant I, the environmental management system was certified in accordance with DIN EN ISO 14001 and the EC Eco-Audit Regulation. After a majority stake in the plant was acquired by the private equity company ECM in Frankfurt in the summer of 2007, it was sold on November 21, 2007 to the Polish group Ciech SA. In 2010, the investment measures to increase production capacity to 560,000 t / a of calcined soda were completed.
environment
The discharge of production wastewater can cause fish to die in the Bode .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ CIECH Soda Germany. In: ciechgroup.com. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .
- ^ Chronicle ( memento of March 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved December 23, 2014.
- ^ Franziska Richter: Staßfurt: 200 kilograms of carcasses. In: volksstimme.de . August 12, 2019, accessed August 12, 2019 .