Venator Germany

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Venator Germany GmbH
legal form GmbH
founding 1878
Seat Duisburg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Management (executive board): John Hussa, Simon Turner,
Michael Christopher Dixon,
Justin Phillipson, Lena Kelber
sales 820 million euros
Website www.sachtleben.de
Last updated 2012

Huntsman Pigments production site in Pori , Finland

The Venator Germany GmbH (formerly Sachtleben Chemie GmbH ) is a manufacturer of chemicals with a focus in the production of white pigments and fillers . The company, based in Duisburg-Homberg, has around 2,200 employees and an annual turnover of around 820 million euros (2012).

Venator Germany manufactures particles on the chemical basis of titanium dioxide , zinc sulfide and barium sulfate and sells them worldwide. The main areas of application for Sachtleben products are, for example, synthetic fibers, varnishes and paints, plastics and paper. Sachtleben also provides special particles for the food , pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries . Venator is also active in the fields of chromatography , nanotechnology and catalysis as well as in the manufacture of building materials . Venator Germany is a leader in the production of special titanium dioxide grades for printing inks as well as for the cosmetics, pharmaceutical and food industries. The production facilities at all three locations use the sulphate process .

history

The company's history goes back over 150 years. In 1878 the Lithopone- und Permanentweißfabrik Schöningen AG was founded with the aim of producing a new white color base material based on zinc sulfide and barium sulfate . Only after overcoming many technical and chemical problems, the solution of which the young chemist Rudolf Sachtleben promoted, was the company able to compete against products. Lithopone , the first permanent white paint base, replaced the poisonous white lead paint that had been common up until then .

In 1883 Rudolf Sachtleben took over the management and became a partner in the Sachtleben & Co. Lithopone factory in Schöningen . The success of the new product and the cost-effective zinc extraction by chlorinating roasting of the Meggen pebbles paved the way for the company's rapid expansion. So the Sachtleben & Co. Lithopone factory moved to Duisburg in 1892. Even then, the Rhine and the neighboring Ruhr area offered optimal location conditions for transport, energy and water supply. By 1906, production increased sixfold and a second production facility was built. During the First World War, in the post-war period and the subsequent occupation of the Ruhr by Belgian and French occupation troops in 1923, the Sachtleben companies also suffered from the effects of inflation .

Sachtleben AG for the mining and chemical industry dated November 10, 1926

After the end of the occupation in 1926 with a share capital of twelve million Reichsmark the Sachtleben corporation for mining and chemical industries , with registered office in Cologne founded. By 1939, the beginning of the Second World War , the production of Lithopone increased significantly and new technical processes enabled the product portfolio to be expanded significantly. During the Second World War, lithopone was produced for civilian use but also for camouflage paint . In 1944 production came to a complete standstill after heavy air raids. In 1946, Sachtleben resumed operations after the war damage had been repaired.

As early as the mid-1950s it became apparent that the properties of titanium dioxide are superior to those of lithopones in many applications. That is why Sachtleben and DuPont de Nemours formed a joint venture in Wilmington (USA) , Pigment Chemie GmbH , in 1959 . In 1960 the planning and construction of the titanium dioxide plant and the sulfuric acid factory began . In 1962 Sachtleben began in Homberg on the Lower Rhine (since 1975 part of Duisburg) with the production of titanium dioxide using the sulphate process. In 1963 the annual production was 18,000 tons of titanium dioxide. Annual production is currently around 100,000 tons of titanium dioxide at the Duisburg and Krefeld locations and around 130,000 tons of titanium dioxide at the Pori location in Finland. In 1971 a lignite power plant was put into operation at the Duisburg location, which still supplies the process heat today.

In 1973 Sachtleben made the strategic decision to also get involved in the promising water chemistry segment . In 1996, EKOKEMI in Ibbenbüren was taken over and at the same time a comprehensive expansion of the product range in the area of ​​water chemistry. With the commissioning of Mitteldeutsche Wasserchemie (MIWAC) in 2000, Sachtleben expanded its position as one of the leading flocculant manufacturers in Central Europe. With the then joint venture between Sachtleben and Kemira Oy in 2008, Sachtleben Wasserchemie was spun off as the joint venture only comprised pigment production of the two companies. Sachtleben Wasserchemie is now an independent company within the Rockwood Group.

In 2000 a nanotechnology production facility was built. Ultrafine titanium dioxide particles are used, among other things, as UV protection in the plastics, paint and varnish industries as well as in the cosmetics industry. The system was designed modularly and can grow with market requirements.

Development of group structures

In 1972 Sachtleben was fully integrated into Metallgesellschaft AG , the predecessor of mg technologies and today's GEA Group . Metallgesellschaft had held the majority of the shares since 1926. Within the Metallgesellschaft, Sachtleben became part of the Dynamit Nobel Group, a 100% subsidiary of the Metallgesellschaft. The Dynamit Nobel AG was responsible for the chemical activities of the metal company (mg-technologies) within the large group until 2004.

In 2004 the company was taken over by the multinational Rockwood Holdings . In September 2008, Rockwood Holdings formed a joint venture with the Finnish company Kemira . In it were the titanium dioxide - and functional additive activities of Rockwood (production in Duisburg, Germany) and the titanium dioxide business of Kemira (production in Pori , Finland combined). With the takeover of the production facilities of the insolvent Krefeld competitor Crenox GmbH, a former Bayer subsidiary, in 2012, the production capacity for titanium dioxide was increased by a further 100,000 to 340,000 tons per year.

At the beginning of 2013, Rockwood Holdings, Inc. took over the joint venture participation of the Finnish Kemira Oyj. Sachtleben GmbH remained a legally independent, 100% subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings until September 30, 2014. On October 1st, the Huntsman Corporation took over the Performance Additives and Titanium Dioxide business unit from Rockwood Holdings and thus Sachtleben Chemie GmbH. On November 2, 2015, the company was renamed Huntsman P&A Germany GmbH. The pigments division of Huntsman P&A was spun off into a separate company called Venator with the aim of going public. On March 19, 2018, the company was finally renamed Venator Germany GmbH.

Distribution of sales

The global distribution of sales (2012):

  • ≈ 55% Europe
  • ≈ 20% Asia / Pacific
  • ≈ 20% America
  • ≈ 5% Africa

Locations

Sales offices and partners

See also

Web links

Description of this sight on the route of industrial culturehttp: //vorlage.rik.test/~18~11804

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Federal Environment Agency: Data and facts on brown and hard coal. (PDF; 6.8 MB) In: Federal Environment Agency. Federal Environment Agency, December 2017, p. 60 , accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Der Westen, June 11, 2012, Sachtleben takes over the insolvent ex-competitor Crenox in Uerdingen
  3. ^ Der Westen, October 2, 2014, New Sachtleben owner is committed to the Duisburg location
  4. ↑ Daniel Cnotka: Homberger Huntsman is now called Venator . ( waz.de [accessed on November 22, 2018]).

Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 21.8 "  N , 6 ° 42 ′ 19.2"  E