Germany's Chemical and Related Process Industry 2011
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Germany’s Chemical and Related Process Industry 2011 A Profile of Selected Investment Sites Industry Brochure DENMARK Germany’s Chemical and Related Process Industry DENMARK Selected Investment Sites Site Name Location Page 1 Bayer Industrial Park Brunsbüttel Brunsbüttel 18 2 ChemCoast Park Brunsbüttel Brunsbüttel 20 3 CoastSite Wilhelmshaven Wilhelmshaven 22 POD LAN 4 Dow ValuePark® Stade Stade 24 5 IndustriePark Lingen Lingen 26 6 Industriepark Walsrode Walsrode-Bomlitz 28 T HE NETHERLANDS 7 Honeywell Specialty Chemicals Seelze Seelze 30 8 Baltic Industrial Park Schwerin Schwerin 32 9 Industrial Park Schwedt Schwedt 34 10 Chemical Site Schwarzheide Schwarzheide 36 11 Industrie- und Gewerbepark Altmark Arneburg 38 12 Agro-Chemie Park Piesteritz Wittenberg-Piesteritz 40 13 ChemiePark Bitterfeld Wolfen Bitterfeld Wolfen 42 14 Dow ValuePark® Schkopau 44 15 Chemical Site Leuna Leuna 46 16 Industriepark Schwarze Pumpe Spremberg 48 17 Marl Chemical Park Marl 50 18 Dorsten-Marl Industrial Park Dorsten/Marl 52 19 Chemical Park RÜTGERS Castrop-Rauxel 54 20 Gelsenkirchen Site Gelsenkirchen 56 BELM GIU 21 Deutsche Gasrußwerke Dortmund 58 22 Chemiepark Bayer Schering Pharma Bergkamen 60 23 CHEMPARK Krefeld-Uerdingen Krefeld-Uerdingen 62 24 Bayer Schering Pharma AG Wuppertal Elberfeld 64 LUXEM- National Borders BOURG CZECH REPUBLIC 25 Industriepark Oberbruch Heinsberg 66 Major Railways 26 CHEMPARK Dormagen Dormagen 68 Major Autobahns 27 CHEMPARK Leverkusen Leverkusen 70 28 Chemical Industrial Park Knapsack Knapsack-Hürth 72 SelectedNavigable Sites Waterways 29 Industriepark Niederau Düren 74 Airports 30 Evonik Degussa GmbH Plant Lülsdorf Lülsdorf 76 31 AllessaChemie GmbH Fechenheim Fechenheim 78 Seaports 32 Industriepark Höchst Frankfurt/Höchst 80 33 Wolfgang Industrial Park Hanau 82 InlandInland PortsPorts 34 Industriepark Kalle-Albert Wiesbaden 84 35 BASF Ludwigshafen Ludwigshafen 86 Rail Freight Hubs 36 Industrie Center Obernburg Obernburg 88 FRANCE NationalNational BordersBorders Freight Villages (GVZ) 37 Werk Gendorf Industrial Park Gendorf/Burgkirchen 90 MajorMajor RailwaysRailways 38 Industriepark Gersthofen Gersthofen 92 Location with 39 INFRARHOD Freiburg 94 MajorMajorIntermodal AutobahnsAutobahns Terminal (KV) NavigableNavigableSymbol size Waterwayswaterways reflects size of hub Airports Seaports Inland Ports AUSTRIA SWITZERLAND Rail Freight Hubs Freight Villages (GVZ) Location with Intermodal Terminal (KV) Source: Germany Trade & Invest, January 2011 design: www.typoly.de (Inken Greisner) Symbol size reflects size of hub Content Welcome Address 5 Industry Overview 6 Opportunities and Benefits for Investors 7 ⋅ Challenge and change 7 ⋅ Infrastructure 8 ⋅ Synergies 9 ⋅ First-class facilities and well trained personnel 9 ⋅ Benefits for other process industry investors 10 ⋅ Investors benefit from efficient authorization 11 ⋅ Plug & play concept 12 ⋅ Energy security makes Germany attractive 13 ⋅ Diversity of supply 13 ⋅ Innovation 13 ⋅ Chemical parks benefit from secure power 14 ⋅ Incentives for investment projects 14 ⋅ Competitive tax system 15 Synergies at Profiled Locations 16 Site Profiles in Detail 18 Germany Trade & Invest: Our Services 96 Germany Trade & Invest: Our Partners 97 see map Germany’s Chemical and Related Process Industry Selected Investment Sites inside the cover Welcome Address Germany’s chemical industry is New investors locating in the chemi- number one in Europe. The industry cal parks can benefit from the parks’ employs more than half a million technical facilities, raw materials highly skilled staff. The businesses recycling, logistics, plant security, and and institutes involved in this sector occupation safety services as well as invest substantially in research and gain advantages from cooperation development. This makes the industry with industrial and research partners. a driving force for innovation. By de- The chemical industry in Germany veloping new materials, active ingredi- offers a great many opportunities and ents and specialized applications, the warmly welcomes all new business chemical industry sets the bench- partners. marks for advancing state-of-the-art technologies. This creates benefits for fields such as health, energy efficiency, Yours sincerely, renewables, energy storage, and electric mobility. Leading international chemical firms Rainer Brüderle MdB have chosen to locate in Germany. Federal Minister of Economics They were drawn here because of the and Technology highly qualified workforce, state-of- the-art logistics, and well-developed infrastructure available in the country. Germany’s central geographical location at the heart of Europe is a further factor. This opens up access to a market of more than 450 million customers. This brochure sets out the German concept for modern chemical industry parks. These globally unique, inte- grated production sites provide the ideal business environment for estab- lished and new companies alike. Each chemical park offers a large range of services. The parks’ infrastructures are designed specifically for chemi- cals and they are home to innovative research institutions tailored to the needs of the chemical industry and as- sociated processing industries. Photo: BMWI Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology Germany Trade & Invest www.gtai.com 5 Industry Overview Opportunities and Benefits for Investors In 2009 Germany was again the Several factors have been instru- Germany – global world’s largest chemical exporter mental in this encouraging trend. Challenge and change accounting for 13 percent share One is the country’s proximity to the heavyweight for But maintaining such world-class of the global export market. Most faster-growing markets in Central performance is not easy. In the face process industry exports went to other European and Eastern Europe, especially now of the many global challenges it is countries, while 12 percent headed that many countries there have As a location for the production of undergoing a process of continual to Asia and 10 percent to North become members of the enlarged chemicals and associated process restructuring and rationalization. America (NAFTA). With sales of European Union. In domestic terms, industries, such as glass and cera- EUR 145 billion in 2009, the German Germany also offers an attractive mics, paper and paperboard, and German companies have often been chemical industry played a leading market and location to invest. With biofuels, Germany is a global heavy- at the forefront of this change and role in the global arena and secures 80 million inhabitants, it is the EU’s weight, ranking first in Europe. have maintained their global promi- 446,000 quality jobs in Germany. largest country by population and nence. The country’s top producers one of the world’s top economies. account for no less than six of the top 40 chemical companies, headed up by such illustrious names as BASF, Bayer, Evonik Industries, Number 1 in Europe: Linde, Merck and Lanxess. Germany’s Chemical and Related Process Industry Global players, such as Dow Chemi- German Chemical Exports 2009 (%) Chemical Exports by Country in 2009 (in EUR billion) cal, Ineos and Sabic, have a signifi- cant production base in the country Other In an era of rapidly globalizing Today, companies are looking for 140 134 and continue to invest here. Years of NAFTA production, multinational and even the cost savings and synergies that investment and production optimiza- 5 120 regionally-based companies have can be found by investing alongside 104 tion have resulted in a network of 10 embraced international development existing producers, to share many of 100 highly integrated production sites, 85 as a strategy to drive growth. But in the facilities already in place. This Asia linked by good logistical infrastruc- 12 80 these competitive times, selection of trend has been enabled and even ture and enjoying first class energy 60 59 where to site new production facili- encouraged by the restructuring 50 50 47 48 47 46 supply and service provision. ties is a highly critical decision. of the chemical industry in Europe, 11 40 29 which has led to the opening up of Other 62 By forming site management com- Europe 20 Payback time and long-term prof- single-company chemical complex- panies whose core business is the itability of investments depends es to multiple occupancy and even EU 27 0 supply of utilities and who therefore UK so much on the initial cost of the ownership. USA China Japan Italy have a direct interest in the main- Belgium France Ireland project and then the ongoing costs of Germany tenance and development of their Netherlands Switzerland utilities and site services. Germany, with its renowned assets, the chemical sites have strength in chemicals production, Source: VCI, Chemiewirtschaft in Zahlen, 2010 Source: VCI, Chemiewirtschaft in Zahlen, 2010 (estimates by VCI) ensured that they offer state-of-the- Gone are the days when an investor is a prime example of what is now (estimates by VCI) art infrastructure for investors to in the chemical or process indus- on offer to the international inves- tap into. tries would choose a greenfield tor. Indeed, the highly developed Indicators of the German Process Industry site and expect to build not only the infrastructure and services on and In the following pages, we analyse Chemicals Plastics Paper Glass/Ceramics/Cement production plant but all the required around chemical sites in Germany closely the benefits of investing Turnover (EUR billion) 2007 1 178 72 38 19 support infrastructure, to provide,