02_08 Year 19 www.brenntag.com North America New Personal Care Applications Lab El Salvador 30 Years Of Ongoing Growth Oil & Gas Global Contract For Shell Netherlands Refineries FECC Annual Congress New Distribution Center “Partnership For Success” In Rotterdam 2 What’s New 3 What’s New Netherlands – New Site In Rotterdam 3 ukraine/Russia – Brenntag Expands Network With Dipol 4 Netherlands – Brenntag Acquires C. N. Schmidt 4 uK/ireland – Albion Supplies Water Purity Chemicals To Scottish Water 5 8 Belgium/Sweden – Brenntag acquires Yara chemical supply activities 6 Brenntag Special- FECC Annual Congress – Partnership For Success 7 ties uSA opened a new personal care Slovakia – Brenntag Acquires Chemical Distribution Activities Of Centralchem 7 laboratory in New Jersey. uSA – New Personal Care Applications Lab 8 Netherlands – Food Seminar With Gourmet Chef 8 Oil & Gas – Contract To Supply Shell Around The Globe 9 Specialties Europe – Interview With Dr. Christian Ohm 10 16 Companies in Focus Specialties Europe – Image Project 12 Numerous guests joined Brenntag to celebrate the Brenntag Latin The Netherlands opening of the new ultra-modern distribution center America focuses El Salvador – 30 Years Of Ongoing Growth 14 in Rotterdam. on specialty chemi- cals and aims to Latin America – Concentrating On Specialties 16 remain the partner of choice in the Partners And Products New Distribution region. Norit NV – 1,001 Applications For Activated Carbon 19 Personal Care – Customer Day Dedicated To Naturalness 22 Center In Rotterdam inside On June 13, 2008, Brenntag officially opened a new site in the “Chemiehaven” Brazil – Salespersons Of The Year Honored 23 port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in the presence of numerous guests. 25 Germany – Brenntag Teams Participate In Local Fun Run 23 The Brenntag iT Spain – Plant Kiosk Closes Technological Gap 24 “Thanks to the efficient set-up and delines regarding safety, health and leader in independent storage and team recently brought the busi- Switzerland – ARIS Platform Improves Workflow 25 the flexibility created through the environment (SHE). More than 30% handling of liquid petroleum pro- connection with the Vopak terminal, of the total investment was earmar- ducts, chemicals, vegetable oils and ness processes in uSA – Leading The Way In Customer Service 26 Switzerland into this new site will support the further ked for SHE expenditures. liquid gas. u top form using the uSA – Brenntag Committed To Safety 27 development of Brenntag in the Ne- The new site is built on an area of ARIS platform. Belgium – Fire Department Drill With 150 Participants 28 therlands in terms of the distribution 30,000 m² adjacent to the Vopak ter- Contact: Marja Kooijman of solvents and chemicals as well as minal, together with which Brenntag [email protected] Photo: bisonrallyteam.nl Poland – Brenntag Receives Award From Forbes 28 our service and quality for customers has developed an innovative and ef- Poland – Seminar: Getting Down To The Meat Of Things 29 and suppliers,” said Steve Holland, ficient integration of the new facili- Germany – Emergency Drill At Brenntag GmbH 30 Chief Executive Brenntag Europe, at ties: Solvents are stored in Brenntag’s 31 the opening. At the new facility, which own underground tanks of 50 m³ each Germany – Safety Training For Professional Drivers 30 Jean-Pierre replaces the former location opposite as well as in high-volume tanks of 800 Jacobs, Brenntag Employee Profile– Jean-Pierre Jacobs: Full-Throttle Through Central Europe 31 of the Chemiehaven, Brenntag will m³ to 1200 m³ at the Vopak site. The sales engineer from Puzzle 32 store, handle and distribute a broad two sites are connected via pipeline, Facts ANd FiGures the Netherlands, range of bulk and packed solvents which allows Brenntag to handle the put the pedal to and other products. products at its own site. “Also other the metal in the Central Europe The new facility features an ultra- partners can take advantage of this Total area: 30,000 m² Rally 00. modern area for loading solvents into cooperation; for example by storing 12,600 pallet spaces trucks. Drums are filled at one of the their products at Vopak and using the Title image: Official start of operation of the distribution center in Rotterdam (from left 4 filling stations for drums and IBC containers to right): Jan Joop Alberts (General Manager Sourcing Industrial Chemicals Europe), drum-filling stations, automatically Brenntag facilities for handling and 1 filling station for canisters Carl Blomme (Managing Director Brenntag Benelux), Harry van Baarlen (Commercial palletized and subsequently trans- distribution,” says Carl Blomme, Ma- 40 underground double-walled tanks Director Industrial Chemicals) and Steve Holland (Chief Executive Brenntag Europe). ported to a warehouse for storage. naging Director Brenntag Benelux. 2 mixing tanks Another warehouse was built to store Brenntag Nederland B.V., a leading 12 tanks (800 - 1200 m³, connected to Vopak) to store Published by: Editor: Editorial Partners: Picture desk: Publishing House: packed products. Both warehouses distributor of chemicals in the Nether- Brenntag Holding GmbH Simone Jähnel Christoph Wennekers (CvD), Jens Peters, Frank VVA Kommunikation Düsseldorf deliveries from ships (inland and seagoing vessels) Tel.: + (0) 0/- Sebastian Arackal, have a capacity of 6,300 pallets each. lands with more than 240 employees, Hubertus Spethmann (V.i.S.d.P.) Schuberth 0 VVA Kommunikation Essen Photos: 10 km of stainless steel pipeline Stinnes-Platz 1 VVA Kommunikation Essen The site also has extensive mixing and belongs to the Brenntag Group. Roy- Email: simone.jaehnel Tel.: + (0)01/ 1 5 Brenntag (unless otherwise specified) D-5 Mülheim an der Ruhr @brenntag.de Email: [email protected] design: blending facilities and a new office al Vopak operates more than 76 tank 4 tank truck filling stations with integrated weighbridge Email: hubertus.spethmann Sonja Komander, Translation: @brenntag.de VVA Kommunikation Essen PS Translation, Germersheim building. The new facilities comply terminals in 31 countries. The Dutch 8 tank truck unloading stations Brenntag together is published in German, English and Spanish with a circulation of 14,700 copies and online on www.brenntag.com. with the strictest regulations and gui- company is the international market 4 What’s New 5 ukraine/Russia The headquarters of Brenntag Acquires Albion Chemicals in Chemical Distributor in Glasgow. The Netherlands Brenntag Expands AMSTERdAM C. N. Schmidt B.V. is fo- cused on the distribution of specialty chemicals in the Netherlands and Bel- gium and was acquired by Brenntag Network With Dipol in August 2008. Founded in 1921, the company works primarily in the food, Brenntag further expanded its distribution network in the ukraine, pharmaceutical, rubber and water treatment sectors. Carl Blomme, Man- Russia and the Baltic states with the acquisition of dipol Chemical aging Director Brenntag in the Ben- international inc. in early August 2008. elux, comments: “Together with C. N. Schmidt we expand our existing prod- Steve Holland, Chief Executive Brenntag creases our presence in Russia. We see uct portfolio, our services and our know-how in the specialty chemicals Europe, says: “With Dipol Chemical In- huge potential in this area and want to market. With the joined forces Bren- ternational as our partner, Brenntag participate in the growth of this region. ntag will be the most attractive part- takes a further important step in Furthermore this cooperation is an ner for customers and suppliers in the strengthening the distribution network ideal foothold to enhance Brenntag’s Benelux region.” in Central and Eastern Europe. We attractiveness for suppliers and custom- Steve Holland, Chief Executive Bren- would like to extend a warm welcome ers in fields such as food, cosmetics, ntag Europe, sees this acquisition as to both employees and management of construction, paint & varnish, automo- uK/ireland the ideal complement to Brenntag’s distribution network in the Benelux Dipol.” tive and oil & gas. We are very excited region: “In C. N. Schmidt we have Founded as a chemical consulting about this acquisition and we are look- found a strong and experienced dis- company in the US in 1994, Dipol is now ing forward to future development.” tributor of specialty chemicals. This a leading distributor of polymers and Dipol estimates demand for poly- Albion Supplies Water Purity acquisition enables us to strengthen specialty chemicals in the Ukraine, Rus- mers in the Ukraine alone at 850,000 our position in the important Benelux sia and the Baltic states and also pro- tons per year with above-average markets as well as our business in vides services in Belarus and Moldavia. growth rates. The majority of specialty Europe.” Chemicals To Scottish Water The company posted external sales of polymers for the booming construction, Contact: Marja Kooijman US$ 100 million in 2007. Dipol operates automobile, packaging and household [email protected] a well-established distribution network goods industries there are imported, in early May 2008, Albion Chemicals signed a 1.3 million euro via offices and warehouses in Kiev, St. primarily from Western Europe. The Petersburg, Moscow and Riga and acts upcoming UEFA Euro 2012 soccer cham- contract with Scottish Water for the storage and supply of water as a distributor for such renowned com- pionships to be held in the Ukraine and purity chemicals. panies as Arkema, Clariant, DOW, DSM, Poland are additionally stimulating mar- DuPont, Huntsman, Ineos and Ineos ket demand. These are excellent start- Albion Chemicals installed a dedicated fresh drinking water and treats near- Brenntag Group. Albion Chemicals has Nova. The Kiev site is ISO 9001:2000 cer- ing conditions for the distributor Dipol, customer storage facility at its Glas- ly one billion litres of wastewater. more than 850 employees and sup- tified. Dipol supplies a variety of indus- which like Brenntag is well-known gow site to provide on-demand deliv- plies 18,000 customers from 18 strate- tries, typically as a single-source sup- among its suppliers and customers for ery to Scottish Water.