Chemical parks and available development space in the ChemCologne region
The Rhineland chemical park landscape today is unique – partly due to the major changes in the region’s production sites over the past 25 years. Up until the mid-90s, most of them were owned by one business, with its own production facilities and land, but this structure gave way to chemicals parks in the decades that followed. The parks are run by operating companies that ensure industrial land, buildings, infrastructure, networks and supply and disposal facilities are provided in line with legal requirements.
They manage all the services investors need, from planning to construction and operation, from maintenance and licensing of industrial facilities to IT, analytics and logistics. This means investors in the ChemCologne region benefit from comprehensive infrastructure, tailored to chemical businesses. For instance, precursors and intermediates, technical equipment and shared security and social facilities are available to both established and new firms in the chemical parks.
Available space for development is usually fully serviced and “plug and play”.
Locating to a chemical park offers significant advantages:
- Ideal operating environment for your business
- Professional support services for new investors
- Infrastructure is already in place
- Opportunity to optimise your business model and make it more flexible
- Chance to concentrate on your core business
- Time and cost savings through shared services
- Potential synergies thanks to Verbund structures
- Shared knowledge to expand your expertise
Industriestrasse 300
50354 Hürth
Internet: www.chemiepark-knapsack.de
Contact person: Pierre Kramer
Phone: +49-2233-486343
Total site area: 180 ha
Total free area: 20 ha, of which 16 ha are contiguous
Partners on site: In total 29 companies thereof 8 producers; Clariant, LyondellBasell, BayerCropScience, Vinnolit, CABB, ICL, Statkraft, eew, Hanke Aromastoffe, Palurec
Number of permanent staff on site: 2.500
Infrastructure: rail and road connection, River port Godorf
Services/Utilities: Strom, Gas, Dampf, technische Gase, Anbindung an Pipeline Verbund, 2 industrielle Kläranlagen, Container Terminal, Werkfeuerwehr, Ausbildungsakademie, uvm.
Raw materials on site: Propylene, ethylene, acetic acid, phosphorus, polypropylene, caustic soda, vinylchloride, PVC, hydrogen, chlorine, monochloracetic acid, phosphorus based specialties, plant protection products, flame retardants
Emdener Str. 117
50769 Köln
Operator: XERVON Utilities GmbH
Internet: www.chemiepark-koeln-merkenich.de/startseite
Contact person: Jörg Sczyslo
Phone: +49-221-7178400
Total size of the chemical park: 26 ha
Open spaces in the chemical park: 5 ha
companies in the chemical park: Wacker Chemie AG, Vinnolit GmbH & Co KG und XERVON Instandhaltung GmbH, XERVON Utilities GmbH
Employees at the Chemical Park: ca. 350
Transport connections: Convenient transport connections in the north of Cologne via freeway, public transport connection, freight railway connection, Rhine/port connection and airport.
Infrastructure facilities:
- Infrastructure operations and all infrastructural tasks, e.g. energy and media supply, biological wastewater treatment plant and truck weighing
- Maintenance of production and infrastructure facilities, e.g. sewers, plant roads and pipe bridges
- Site services, e.g. plant security, waste management, materials management
Raw materials/products on site: For the production of chemical products, VAE dispersions and PVC are provided on site: VC, VAM, ethylene, natural gas, steam, nitrogen, compressed air, cooling water, DI water, NAOH, HCL, process water.
Neusser Landstraße
Gebäude G 8
41538 Dormagen
Internet: www.chempark.de/de/dormagen.html
Contact person: Dr. Regina Schade-Lehn
Phone: +49-214-3072415
Total size of the chemical park:360 ha
Open spaces in the chemical park: size of open spaces from 0.5 to 6 ha
Companies in the chemical park: 60 companies, from, for example, the Air Liquide Deutschland GmbH, Aliseca GmbH, Asahi Kasei Spandex Europe GmbH, Bayer CropScience AG, Covestro Deutschland AG, Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Chemion Logistik GmbH, Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG, Dralon GmbH, HOYER GmbH Internationale Fachspedition, Kemira Germany GmbH TM Dormagen, LANXESS AG, LEHNKERING GmbH, Linde AG, Perlon-Monofil GmbH, Praxair Deutschland GmbH, Saltigo GmbH, Styrolution Köln GmbH, TALKE-Emmerich GmbH & Co. KG, Tectrion GmbH, TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH, YARA GmbH & Co. KG
employees at the chemical park: 10.575
Transport links: road, rail, own port
Infrastructure facilities: Electricity, steam, cooling, water (process, drinking, circulating, demineralized water), technical gases, compressed air, natural gas, wastewater treatment, (special) waste incineration/waste landfill, recycling, recycling center, plant fire department, medical services, analytics laboratory
Raw materials/products on site: around 2,000 chemicals, for example Cl2, H2, CO, toluene, benzene, ethylene, HCN, NH3, propylene, butadiene
Rheinuferstraße 7-9
47829 Krefeld
Internet: www.chempark.de/de/krefeld-uerdingen.html
Contact person: Dr. Regina Schade-Lehn
Phone: +49-214-3072415
Total size of the chemical park: 330 ha
Open spaces in the chemical park: size of open spaces from 0.5 to 20 ha
Companies in the chemical park: 40 companies, from, for example, the Aliseca GmbH, Covestro Deutschland AG, Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Chemion Logistik GmbH, Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG, LANXESS AG, LEHNKERING GmbH, Sachtleben Pigment GmbH, Tectrion GmbH, TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH
employees at the chemical park:7.600
Transport links: road, rail, own link road to Logport III, own port
Infrastructure facilities: Electricity, steam, cooling, water (process, drinking, circulating, demineralized water), technical gases, compressed air, natural gas, wastewater treatment, (special) waste incineration/waste landfill, recycling of composite materials, recycling center, plant fire department, medical services, analytical laboratory.
Raw materials/products on site: more than 2,000 chemicals, world's largest production of inorganic pigments, but also for example acetone, benzene, phenol, cyclohexane, bisphenol, CO, Cl2, HNO3
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Allee
51368 Leverkusen
Internet: www.chempark.de/de/leverkusen.html
Contact person: Dr. Regina Schade-Lehn
Phone: +49-214-3072415
Total size of the chemical park:480 ha
Open spaces in the chemical park: size of open spaces from 0.5 to 4 ha
Companies in the chemical park: 200 companies, from, for example, the Akzo Nobel Chemicals GmbH, Aliseca GmbH, Bayer AG, Bayer HealthCare AG, Covestro Deutschland AG, Bayer Real Estate GmbH, Bayer Technology Services GmbH, Bertschi AG, Blankophor GmbH & Co. KG, Chemion Logistik GmbH, Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG, Evonik Industries AG, Heraeus Precious Metals GmbH & Co. KG, InfraServ GmbH & Co. Knapsack KG, KRONOS TITAN GmbH, LANXESS AG, Momentive Performance Materials, Saltigo GmbH, Spraytec GmbH, TALKE-Emmerich GmbH & Co. KG, Tectrion GmbH, TÜV SÜD Chemie Service GmbH
employees at the chemical park: 28.100
Transport links: road, rail, own port
Infrastructure facilities: Electricity, steam, cooling, water (process, drinking, circulating, demineralized water), technical gases, compressed air, natural gas, wastewater treatment, (special) waste incineration/waste landfill, recycling of composite materials, recycling center, plant fire department, medical services, analytical laboratory.
Raw materials/products on site: more than 5,000 chemicals, for example Cl2, H2,toluene, benzene, NH3, HNO3, oleum, silicon, CO, water glass.
Feldmühlestraße
53859 Niederkassel
Internet: Evonik Industries AG, Standort Lülsdorf
Contact person: Dr. Arndt Selbach
Phone: +49-2236-762515
Total site area:100 ha
Total free area: 50 ha
Partners on site:Evonik Industries AG; Business Unit Functional Solutions - Production of anorganic and organic chemicals KFS-Biodiesel
Number of Permanent staff on site: 500
Infrastrucuture: Directly located at River Rhein, harbour onsite with rail connection, safe again floodwaters, pipeline network, high way connection, international airport Köln/Bonn and Germany‘s 2nd largest freight airport 15 km away, one of Europe‘s most important rail distribution hubs in close vicinity (Köln Eifeltor) – 20 km
Services/Utilities: Energy/steam supply; several qualities of water (own wells); biological sewage plant; security team, fire brigade; analytical competence center; services on demand, e.g. plant engineering and construction, maintenance, logistics, catering, medical services, IT-services
Raw materials on site: austic potash, caustic soda, hydrogen, chlorine, EDC, potassium carbonate and –bicarbonate, alcoholate for producing biodiesel and organic syntheses
Köln-Wesseling
Ludwigshafener Str. 1
50389 Wesseling
Köln-Godorf
Godorfer Hauptstr. 150
50997 Cologne
www.shell.de/rheinland
Contact Business Development: business-rheinland(at)shell.com
The Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland in the south of Cologne plays a key role in the transformation of Shell. With up to 3,000 employees and the increasing production of innovative, sustainable energy and chemical products such as green hydrogen or biofuels, it makes an important contribution to Shell's goal of becoming a net-zero emissions energy company by 2050 or earlier.
The Park is developing from a crude oil processing site to a platform for future energy and chemicals value chains. Products will be originated from circular and sustainable raw materials as well as renewable electricity and CO2.
This fundamental transformation will be driven in close cooperation with partners. By integration of further chemical and energy companies, the future of innovative products will be jointly shaped at the site.
Partners benefit from the production network, permitted industrial areas and know-how. At an industrial location such as the Energy and Chemicals Park Rheinland, projects can be implemented more effectively and efficiently than on a greenfield site. This saves time, money and ensures that important energy transition projects progress faster.
In addition, the development of an innovative "Energy Campus" is planned at the site, which offers office space, for example. In synergy with the Energy and Chemicals Park, an ecosystem for companies and research institutions on the subject of the energy transition is to be developed here.
