Marl Chemical Park (German: Chemiepark Marl) is an industrial park in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the third largest industrial cluster in Germany and among the largest chemical production facilities in Europe. The site occupies over 6 square kilometers, hosts 100 chemical plants, employs 10,000 people, and produces 4 million metric tons of chemicals annually. 18 companies are based in the Park, including primary tenant Evonik Industries AG, which also owns and operates the infrastructure through its subsidiary Infracor GmbH.
Originally named Chemische Werke Hüls, the complex was built in 1938 by a consortium led by IG Farben to produce synthetic rubber and other war materials for the Third Reich. By 1942 over 5000 workers' families had relocated into new housing which transformed Marl into a company town. At the height of World War II, the Germans also used slave laborers and prisoners of war at the plant. Allied bombing heavily damaged the site in mid-1943 although full production had resumed by 1944. Near the end of the war, employees saved the plant from complete destruction under Hitler's Nero Decree and the US Army occupied it in March, 1945.
After the war, the plant operated under restrictions imposed by the Allied Control Council and by 1953 turned over to new German owners. New products such as plastics and intermediate chemicals began to be produced. Coal-mining conglomerate RAG AG became majority owner in 2007 and created a new entity Evonik Industries, with a focus on specialty and fine chemicals. In 2009, Marl Chemical Park received its current name. In 2012 a fire halted production of cyclododecatriene (CDT) for several months. The plant manufactures a substantial proportion of the world supply of CDT, a precursor to Nylon 12, which in turn led to a shortage which impacted global production of finished goods particularly in the automotive industry.
Marl Chemical Park is an anchor point on the Ruhr Industrial Heritage Trail and can be visited.
^ ab"Location". Chemiepark Marl (in German). Marl Chemical Park. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
^Chemical Atlas. "Evonik Industries AG Chemiepark Marl". www.chemieatlas.de (in German). Kries Recklingshausen and the Government of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved 2021-01-26.
and 23 Related for: Marl Chemical Park information
MarlChemicalPark (German: Chemiepark Marl) is an industrial park in Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the third largest industrial cluster...
nylon 12 include EMS-Chemie, the MarlChemicalPark operated by Evonik, Arkema and South Korea's SH Energy & Chemical Co. Wolfgang. Griehl , Djavid. Ruestem...
known as nylon 12. In March 2012, a fire at the MarlChemicalPark operated by Evonik Industries in Marl, Germany, stopped production for an expected duration...
commercial supplier Degussa "Fire at the CDT plant on the grounds of the MarlChemicalsPark". Press Release. Evonik Industries. 4 April 2012. Stephen Evans (19...
(CentrO) on an adjacent plot, and Internationale Bauausstellung Emscher Park planned to use the Gasometer for its exhibition. Ownership transferred to...
Museum Villa Hügel Nordsternpark World Heritage Site Zeche Zollverein MarlChemicalPark Bochum Dahlhausen Railway Museum Henrichshütte Centennial Hall Bochum...
conducted research there from 1946 to 1961 as an employee at the MarlChemicalPark. Stimulated by Eucken, he turned to physical chemistry in the 1930s...
site in the West Bank managed by Israel's Qumran National Park. It is located on a dry marl plateau about 1.5 km (1 mi) from the northwestern shore of...
evaporated in Lake Lucero, White Sands National Park Gypsum veins in the silts/marls of the Tea Green and Grey Marls, Blue Anchor, Somerset, United Kingdom Gypsum...
(PDF). Shell Chemicals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 23 October 2009. Lopez, Jonathan. "Tarragona chemicalspark running normally...
marga, meaning 'stone of marl'; presently the name lithomarge can refer to a compacted, massive form of kaolin. The chemical formula for kaolinite as...
permeable, this formation is highly calcitic and is composed of sandy shell marl, clay, and sand. Water underneath the Caloosahatchee Formation is typically...
composed of the tests of planktonic microorganisms such as foraminifera, while marl is an earthy mixture of carbonates and silicate sediments. Limestone forms...
burrows, cast-off parts, fossilised feces (coprolites), palynomorphs and chemical residues. Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology...
of carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and groundwater. Calcrete, lake marls, and lake reefs are excluded from this definition, but both speleothems...
marl. There are five Local Nature Reserves designated under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949: Runcorn Hill, Dorchester Park,...
Kootenay National Park is a national park of Canada in southeastern British Columbia. The park consists of 1,406 km2 (543 sq mi) of the Canadian Rockies...
Parker, to the cement he patented which is a natural cement (i.e. it is a marl, or limestone containing integral clay, dug out of the ground, burnt and...
Green Lakes State Park is a New York State Park located east of Syracuse in the Town of Manlius. The park is strikingly scenic, and has a "masterpiece"...
2018. Retrieved January 14, 2018. Evans, Christopher S.; Evans, Linda; Marler, Peter (July 1993). "On the meaning of alarm calls: functional reference...
wood, coal, oil shale, iron, copper, magnesium, gold, marble, titanium, and marl resources. Fushun is known as "the capital of coal". The main coal and oil...
2015 onwards, alternative raw materials (ARM), such as slate quarry fines, marl, fireclay etc., could be used instead. However, ARMs typically have a higher...
just five sites in the world, its type locality in northern Sweden and four marl lakes in The Burren. The Burren is one of the main breeding areas in Ireland...
Global Information
