Press and Service

2012

 

  • 17.12.2012: RÜTGERS reaches a milestone in its environmental protection program: New waste gas incinerator comes online at the Castrop-Rauxel site

    North Rhine-Westphalian Minister for Economic Affairs Garrelt Duin and Henri Steinmetz, CEO of RÜTGERS, flipped the switches on a new waste gas incinerator at the Castrop-Rauxel production site.

     

  • 07.12.2012: Tested and approved

    Training at Evonik has a good standing. In last year’s customer survey this was confirmed by internal and external Chemical Park customers alike and now it’s official, too.

     

  • 04.12.2012: Münster district government approves operating permit for CDT plant in Marl

    The extensive work to repair the damage caused by the fire at the CDT plant of Evonik Industries at Chemiepark Marl has now been completed

     

  • 22.11.2012: Confidence in Germany as business location at all-time high

    Positive without change—the results of the latest CHEMonitor survey confirm the positive assessment of the conditions regarding Germany as business location.

     

  • 19.11.2012: Chemistry for the world of tomorrow: gaining the future with innovations

    The new study provides member companies with orientation for their strategic planning. Versus politics, it illustrates the consequences of political decisions for the competititveness of the sector.

     

  • 16.11.2012: Pioneers in isophorone chemistry

    On November 16, Evonik will celebrate 50 years of making isophorone chemicals. This is an important milestone for the company, and some 200 customers, employees, and pensioned former employees will join Evonik Executive Board members Dr. Thomas Haeberle and Thomas Wessel in Herne to look back on the long and interesting history of isophorone chemistry at the site.

     

  • 07.11.2012: Evonik investing in new bio-labs in Marl

    The specialty chemicals group is investing about €1.7 m in biotechnology research at the site, with the creation of twelve new jobs.

     

  • 29.10.2012: Chemical companies are expecting a good year—despite economic concerns

    Most German managers in the chemicals business are expecting higher sales and profits for this year. They are also satisfied with the performance of the industrial site Germany, and are interested in hiring more employees.

     

  • 01.10.2012: Increase of production for 1-butene

    Evonik Industries plans to increase the production capacity for 1-butene at its Marl site by 75,000 metric tons per year, and start-up is scheduled for 2015.

     

  • 20.09.2012: Oxea completes new production plant for specialty esters

    Chemical company Oxea today announced that it has mechanically completed its latest production plant for specialty esters, “Ester 2”, in Oberhausen on schedule.

     

  • 04.09.2012: Marl Chemical Park welcomes 207 new apprentices

    “Vocational training has a tradition at Marl Chemical Park. For more than 70 years, we have trained young men and women. More than 16,000 have started their training and—more importantly—have completed it successfully so far.” These are the opening remarks of Dr. Hans Jürgen Metternich, head of Evonik Vocational Training North, with which he welcomes 207 new apprentices at the Marl site; 34 of them will be trained for or on behalf of other companies and do not belong to the Group. In the selection process, the department read 2,053 applications and carried out 925 employment tests.

     

  • 01.09.2012: Germany is EU chemicals industry’s No 1 production location

    Europe’s share in the chemicals industry’s global sales has fallen significantly in the past 10 years from 30 to 20 percent. The main reason for this is China’s soaring growth. Meanwhile, the development in the European Union has been varying.

     

  • 15.08.2012: Evonik lays foundation stone for new chemical plant in Marl

    Evonik Industries laid the foundation stone for a new, large plant to produce functionalized polybutadienes in Marl, Germany. The plant, with an annual capacity of several thousand metric tons, is scheduled for completion in the middle of 2013. The specialty chemicals company's investment in its largest production site worldwide is in the mid double-digit million € range and will create 15 new jobs. Functionalized polybutadienes, which Evonik plans to market under the name POLYVEST® HT, are used mainly in sealing compounds for insulated glass windows and for adhesives used in the automotive and electronics industries, for example.

     

  • 10.08.2012: Market leader Oxea further expands production capacities for carboxylic acids

    Chemical manufacturer Oxea today announced that it has once again expanded its production capacity for carboxylic acids within only a very short period of time. The company successfully increased the production performance of the carboxylic acid plant in Marl, Germany, beyond target by 20 percent. Already the market leader with the most comprehensive portfolio worldwide, Oxea now serves the continuously rising global demand for carboxylic acids with this increased capacity. Carboxylic acids can be used for manufacturing energy-efficient lubricant esters for environmentally friendly refrigeration units such as air conditioners and refrigerators or specialty plasticizers, among others. Oxea currently operates four production plants for carboxylic acids world-wide and additionally plans to bring on-stream another new, state-of-the-art carboxylic acid plant in Oberhausen, Germany, at the end of 2012.

     

  • 08.08.2012: Oxea expands its portfolio with new special alcohols

    Chemical manufacturer Oxea today announced that it is expanding its product portfolio by offering a broader range of higher alcohols. For this purpose, Oxea invested in additional hydration capacities at the Oberhausen site. In the third quarter of 2012, the product nheptanol will be commercially available, followed by 3-methyl butanol, 2- methyl butanol and n-pentanol. Higher alcohols are not only indispensable components for the fragrance and flavor industry, they are also required for the production of varnish, paint and lubricant additives or are used as special solvents in the pharmaceutical industry.

     
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