CENTER OF EXCELLENCEAgro-Chemical Park
“Hidden champion”, tradition-steeped chemistry location, beacon with international significance.
The Agro-Chemical Park Piesteritz can be given different titles, but it cannot be ignored. With SKW Piesteritz as the core company, more than 51 companies have settled not far from Luther’s Wittenberg that form the first and so far only Piesteritz Agro-Chemical Park in Germany – with an unmatched level of networking.
Chemistry has been operated at this location for over 100 years. Here, fertilisers are produced that, thanks to research performed on site, become increasingly efficient both ecologically and economically. Here, biodiesel, valuable lecithin and pharmaceutical glycerine are produced from rapeseed. Melamine, which has become in indispensable part of many areas of daily life, is produced here. And high-purity carbon dioxide is liquefied here to be used in the food industry. So any carbonic acid in mineral water may well come from Piesteritz.
Rüdiger Geserick, CEO of SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz
“The best contribution to securing the future of the site is to work every day on its continued existence.”
QUICK CHECK
220
Total area in hectare
1
Total investments in Bn. €
10000
Direct and indirect jobs
100
Application for over 100 patents
5000
Trial plots
51
Companies on site
FOCUS SECTORS
- Industrial chemistry
- Agrochemistry
- Food production
RESIDENT RESEARCH INSTITUTES
PARTNER NETWORKS
- Kiel University
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Technische Universität München
- Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences
- Thünen Institute Braunschweig
- Deutscher Wetterdienst
- RAUCH Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH
- DöhlerAgrar
- Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research Müncheberg
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle
- Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunobiology IZI
- Saxon State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology
- Saxony-Anhalt State Institute for Agriculture and Horticulture
- Thuringian State Institute for Agriculture
- Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture
COMPANIES ON SITE (excerpt)
- Air Liquide Deutschland GmbH
- Biomasseheizkraftwerk der Stadtwerke Leipzig (Strom- und Dampferzeugung)
- Borealis Agrolinz Melamine Deutschland GmbH
- DSB Säurebau Leuna GmbH (Spezialbeschichtungen)
- KAEFER Isoliertechnik GmbH & Co. KG (Rohrleitungsisolierungen)
- Labor für Wasser und Umwelt GmbH (Analytik)
- Louis Dreyfus Company Wittenberg GmbH
- M+W Prozessautomation GmbH
- Wittenberger Bäckerei GmbH
- Wittenberg Gemüse GmbH (Tomatenproduktion)
SUCCESS STORIES
CONTACT to Agro-Chemie Park Piesteritz
SKW Stickstoffwerke Piesteritz GmbH
Möllensdorfer Straße 13
06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Tel.: +49 3491 68 0
E-Mail: info@skwp.de