Spolana
| Spolana sro | |
|---|---|
| legal form | sro |
| founding | 1950 (1898) |
| Seat | Neratovice , Czech Republic |
| Branch | chemistry |
| Website | www.spolana.cz |
SPOLANA sro is a chemical plant in Neratovice in the Czech Republic . The company is located on the left side of the Elbe opposite the confluence of the Košátecký potok . It focuses primarily on the export of its products and carries out around 80% of the production. It currently focuses on the production of PVC, fertilizers, technical gases and other inorganic and chemical products. It employs around 700 people. The company hit the headlines in 2002 when the floods of the Elbe flooded the company premises. Spolana has been part of the Unipetrol group since 2016.
history
In 1898 VB Goldberg founded a factory for the production of soaps, candles and oils in Neratovice and in 1905 the factory of František Šebor for the production of various chemicals was established here. The gradual expansion of chemical production in the vicinity of the Elbe as a water reservoir played a decisive role in the development of the city. 1908–1915 there was a smaller ammonia and fertilizer production facility here, later in the period between the world wars the area became a production facility and warehouse for groceries (sweets, chocolate, roll pug, fish salads, mustard and soup spices, jam, chicory). After the annexation of the Sudeten area, the Association for Chemical and Metallurgical Production bought the factory in 1939, which it then began to expand. The basis was the production of cleaning chemicals, preparations for combating agricultural pests and car cosmetics. After that, the association began building a chemical complex that included electrolysis for the production of chlorine and sodium hydroxide and a production facility for viscose fibers. To this end, a coal-fired power station, a waterworks and a hydropower station were built on the Elbe by the end of 1946.
In 1945 the association and its works in Neratovice were nationalized. In 1950 the company became independent under the name Spolana. In the following years the chemical works in Křinec and Kralupy nad Vltavou were established . (Reagents) affiliated. In the mid-1960s, the production of laboratory chemicals was separated (Lachema Neratovice). All existing operations were modernized and expanded. A production facility for sulfuric acid from pyrite and a glue factory for processing bone glue were added, and a sewage treatment plant was built. Spolana produced T-acid between 1965 and 1968 , whereby the herbicide was contaminated with dioxin due to the manufacturing process and contaminated three buildings and many employees. The T-acid was used as a preliminary product for the manufacture of the military defoliant Agent Orange in the US Army, which was used on a large scale in the Vietnam War . As a result, the dioxin exposure caused severe damage to the health of several hundred thousand US soldiers and Vietnamese. However, this was not limited to the products of Spolana, the T-acid of other suppliers was also contaminated.
A plant for the production of caprolactam was later established and the branch in Velvary was expanded. The development reached its peak in the years 1970 to 1976, when new plants for the production of chlorine by electrolysis (from imported salt) and a new production plant for sulfuric acid and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) were built. After 1970 the older establishments, e.g. B. the glue production and the old chlorine electrolysis closed. The dominant 200 meter high chimney and 100 meter high cooling towers were built. The power plant blocks were converted, fiber production was modernized and a production facility for oestrophan was built.
From the end of 2001 to November 2006, Spolana was part of the Unipetrol holding group , which in May 2005 became part of the Polish PKN Orlen group . In November 2006 Unipentrol sold its stake in Spolana to the Polish company Anwil SA , which is also part of the PKN Orlen group. In June 2016, Spolana returned to the Unipetrol group.
present
In 2016, UNIPETROL RPA signed a purchase agreement with ANWIL, on the basis of which it received a 100% share in SPOLANA. In the last few years there have been further investments in modernizing the plant and expanding production. At the beginning of 2018, Spolana brought granules of an agricultural ammonium sulfate fertilizer onto the market. In the same year, she began to build a new gas-fired thermal power station, which is used to generate steam for the operation of the area. The new power plant will be equipped with two steam boilers for natural gas with an output of 2 × 35 tons of steam per hour. These will replace the existing lignite boilers. Completion of the building is planned for 2019. The total investment reaches 200 million crowns.
Directors
- 2018 - Jacek Aliński
- 2018 - until now - Krzysztof Bączyk
Individual evidence
- ↑ Czech chemical plant Spolana 90% flooded. In: News of the Orga Lab testing laboratory. August 16, 2002, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 ; Retrieved April 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Can Merey : "Spolana": Chemical time bomb on the Elbe - journalists locked out. In: Vista Verde. August 20, 2002, accessed April 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Miroslav Šuta: Spolana - časovaná bomba na břehu Labe , Sedmá generace, 10/2002
- ↑ Cordt Schnibben: The death from Ingelheim . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1991, pp. 102 ff . ( online ).