SWOT‐Analysis Chemical Logistics: Germany - Central Europe

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SWOT‐Analysis Project [ChemLog] Map of Saxony‐Anhalt and its location in Central Germany and Europe Project Partner: GERMANY Page 6/39
SWOT‐Analysis Project [ChemLog] 3 DESCRIPTION OF CHEMICAL INDUSTRY The chemical industry is the 2 nd biggest industrial sector in Saxony‐Anhalt and has high importance for the regional economy, international trade and innovation capacity. Since the early 1990s, investments in the amount of 17 billion euro were made at the major sites in Saxony‐Anhalt ‐ Leuna, Schkopau, Bitterfeld‐Wolfen, Zeitz, Piesteritz and Böhlen (Saxony) and Schwarzheide (Brandenburg) into rehabilitation and new construction of infrastructures and production plants. The Central German Chemistry Triangle has a chemistry park area of more than 5,500 ha and ultramodern product integration schemes. These sites with their synergetic potentials provide best prerequisites for new business settlements. Key competence areas in the region include fine and specialty chemistry, polymer chemistry and plastics development, composite materials and agro‐chemistry, while eminent international potentials are also available in the fields of nanotechnology and material research and development for the solar industry. The chemical industry in the regions Saxony‐Anhalt, Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg have initiated the Chemistry/Plastics Cluster Central Germany as the business community as a platform of inter‐state collaboration at the future conference of ‘Economic Initiative for Central Germany’ in 2003. Membership includes large‐, medium‐ and small‐scale enterprises, their associations, education and research institutions, service providers as well as politics and administrations. The Future Cluster builds on established network and cooperation structures and promotes formation of value‐added chains as are formed from research via feedstock materials to final products. One generic feature of clusters is a concentration of value‐added chains. This applies in particular to Central Germany because the corporate landscape in Saxony, Saxony‐Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg is characterised by chemistry. The region between rivers Elbe, Saale, Havel, Spree and Neiße is a land of chemistry. Chemical industry and plastics processing have written an impressive success story following introduction of market economy in Eastern Germany and today are among the major growth branches in Central Germany. This industry takes a combined share of about 14 per cent in the total sales of the processing trade in the federal states of Saxony, Saxony‐Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg. Some 750 chemical and plastics companies generated a turnover of ca. 20 billion Euros in 2007 – an increase of some 15 per cent compared to previous year figures. Thus, a development was kept up that has continued for eleven years. Sales have risen by 200 per cent from 1995 to 2006. The chemical and plastics industry in Saxony, Saxony‐Anhalt, Thuringia and Brandenburg has also proven an employment motor and currently provides 76,000 jobs in 2007‐ a growth by approximately 40 per cent compared to 1995. Another proof of the successful road is also the sharp rise in productivity which was 120 per cent in 2006 with sales of 251,000 euro per employee as compared to 1995. Project Partner: GERMANY Page 7/39
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