Forum IPW Information from the Industrial Park Walsrode Issue 02 | 2006 RSH Polymere “Customer proximity gives us a competitive edge” Good relations result in good neighbours. For more than twenty years RSH Polymere GmbH has been collecting and recycling waste from films production. As the sole disposal contractors for three resident companies in the IPW, RSH is now going one step further. From January 2007 Bomlitz will be the fourth site where the Hamburg- based family business runs facilities. By investing in its own building at this location, the company is upping its long-standing commitment and local business relationships. The Draak family has been operating Global licence in the plastics industry since 1958. As ASM Research Chemicals has acquired an accredited disposal contractor RSH a global licence from the University Polymere has extensive expertise in of Copenhagen for the synthesis of thermoplastics processing. The compa- specific nucleic acid building blocks. ny is committed to long-term business These organic building blocks have relationships. “It is vital for us to act been produced at the company's as a strategic partner to our clients,” research laboratory and supplied to says Swen Draak, Managing Director ed in modern regrinding and granula- international research groups since of RSH Polymere, outlining the firm's ting machinery. “This is a proper recy- September 2006. commitment at the IPW. “Being close cling process, where the materials are to our key customers gives us a clear recovered and reused in the plastics Page 3 competitive edge.” Besides such strate- processing industry,” Draak explains. gic considerations, their decision to set up their own facilities in the IPW In future employees of RSH Polymere Vacant industrial sites has tangible economic benefits – for all will be collecting and sorting the The Industrial Park Walsrode offers parties. plastics waste directly at the IPW. In ideal conditions for process-oriented the company's own building which will industrial enterprises – not only in the Until now RSH Polymere has been be up and running on location, the center of the IPW. An area of around placing some 50 skips at the site for loose waste material will be pressed 5.5 hectares is available at Röpersberg- collecting production scrap generated into bales and prepared for transport. West. This site borders on the IPW and by Wipak, Epurex and CaseTech. When “This will relieve our clients of the task the infrastructure can be developed the containers are full, RSH transports of sorting and collecting the waste at short notice on request, as the them to its own recycling facilities in material,” says Draak. Within this con- permits have already been granted. Hamburg. The waste material is process- cept, improved services are just one Page 5 side of the coin. “The optimized opera- tional procedures save time and reduce logistical costs. On top of that, we can ensure a consistently high quality of High taxes? our regranulates.” Germany is no longer a country of high taxes. By international standards the tax burden has been More information at: below average for quite some time. www.rshpolymere.de In terms of income and profits Germany levies the lowest tax rates among the European industrial nations in relation to their economic output. Page 6 www.industriepark-walsrode.com · Info: [email protected] Open day Editorial IPW attracts crowds Dear Readers, More than 250 chemical companies, and research laboratories and had universities and colleges took part in the various procedures and processes Networking is a crucial requirement for every this year's open day of the German explained to them by the experts. individual in today's increasingly complex chemical industry. Almost 400,000 business structures, and well-functioning people took the opportunity at the end institutional networks are also a vital asset of September to look behind the scenes on the level of local and regional economic at chemical facilities and to obtain development. information about which substances and materials are the topic of research Networking is a long-term set-up with many projects, and what safety precautions different facets. Capturing companies for and environmental measures are taken relocation to the IPW is obviously a key by the companies. The Industrial Park aspect of our activities. Along the route Walsrode was again a centre of attrac- towards this goal we make and maintain tion: some 4000 people toured the contacts – as we recently did in the UK with resident companies' production plants NEPIC, the North East Process Industry Cluster – with the aim of opening up new vistas for the companies at our location. Promising business relationships can emerge from this Networking 2 over time, culminating in a rewarding transfer and exchange of expertise. IPW establishes contacts with The IPW model with its mix of chemical, plastics processing, life science sectors and North East England numerous services along the supply chain offers a great deal of opportunities for esta- International networking is becoming increasingly important in terms blishing links and making connections. The of economic development. Representatives of the IPW paid a visit Hamburg-based company RSH Polymere (see to NEPIC – North East Process Industry Cluster – in England in title page) is a good example of how a strategic mid-November. NEPIC is an organization formed by around 200 partnership can evolve from long-standing companies in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry located in collaboration. It demonstrates very positively the North East of England. and clearly that especially small and medium- sized enterprises in operative subsectors fit in admirably at the IPW. Together with a further 150 companies IPW and the region. “The IPW is an in the supply chain of these industries, appealing option for the NEPIC com- Best wishes for the Christmas Season and for they make up this major economic panies, not least due to the similar a successful year 2007 from cluster which accounts for more than industry mix,” said Wilkens. Thanks to a quarter of the entire industrial its central location, the IPW also has infrastructure in the Northumberland, logistical advantages for serving the Tyne & Wear, Durham and Teesside East European markets. The meeting region. Some 34,000 people are employ- aimed at “sounding out the potential ed directly in the chemical industry for cooperation schemes and strategic here. partnerships.” Contacts between the Alf Wilkens IPW and NEPIC are to be cultivated Manager Industrial Park Walsrode IPW Manager Alf Wilkens and Location through reciprocal invitations and joint Marketing Manager Torsten Wyszniews- events. One company representative ki outlined the IPW's assets and activi- has already announced that he would ties to representatives of NEPIC and be visiting the IPW within the same of the UK Trade & Investment. During month. the talks they pointed out the benefits offered to British companies by the © Industrial Park Walsrode 11.2006 IPW Forum – Issue 02|2006 Inside IPW Nationwide kommKOOP competition Cooperation schemes: a win-win strategy In a nationwide competition organized by the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs together with the Federal Officie for Building and Regional Planning, 167 intermunicipal coopera- tion schemes with a total of 2006 partner communities submitted their entries. In the field of economic development from a highly developed area within the joint location marketing initiative – the industrial park to major municipal Wirtschaftsdelta Vogelpark (“Bird Park sites adjacent to the motorways, inter- Economic Delta”) – set up by the towns ested parties can be offered a suitable of Bad Fallingbostel and Walsrode, the package from a single source. borough of Bomlitz and the Industrial Michael Lebid (right), mayor of Bomlitz, Park Walsrode entered the competition. A total of 52 cooperation schemes is pleased about the award The four partners of equal standing received an award in Berlin at the have pooled their resources to become a beginning of October. “Cooperation undersecretary of the Federal Building noticeable entity when canvassing for schemes pool existing resources and Ministry, who described the Wirt- potential relocators beyond the immedi- lead to better results – at a lower cost,” schaftsdelta Vogelpark initiative as ate region. With a site portfolio ranging said Dr. Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, exemplary and innovative. 3 ASM Research GmbH Global licence for nucleic acid building blocks ASM Research Chemicals has acquired a global licence from the With its new product range ASM University of Copenhagen for the synthesis of specific nucleic acid Research is establishing an additional building blocks. These organic building blocks have been produced at foothold alongside its business in the the company's research laboratory located in the IPW and supplied field of custom synthesis. The company to international research groups since September 2006. began operating at the Industrial Park Walsrode in mid-2005. Its key activity is the development of lab-scale produc- The so-called PNA monomers synthesiz- tion processes for organic chemicals. ed by ASM are used for producing By selecting this location ASM benefits PNA (peptide nucleic acid). This is a from the IPW infrastructure and its non-natural nucleic acid of a similar wide-ranging service options covering structure to the genetic substance environmental protection, security and DNA. Owing