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The German companies behind the stories: short, factual profiles that link to each company's official website.

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4 companies

★ StarLudwigshafen am Rhein

BASF

Ludwigshafen chemical group founded in 1865, whose 1913 ammonia plant at Oppau industrialised the Haber-Bosch process and with it high-press…

Chemicals & Materials
★ StarHanau

Heraeus

Family-owned technology group from Hanau: precious metals, quartz glass for chip fabs and optical fibre, bonding wire, medical materials. Ca…

Chemicals & Materials
★ StarMainz

SCHOTT AG

Specialty glass and glass-ceramic maker based in Mainz and owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation, known for ZERODUR, CERAN and pharmaceutical g…

Chemicals & Materials
★ StarMunich

Wacker Chemie

Chemical group best known for silicones and hyperpure polysilicon. Says every second computer chip is made from its polysilicon, produced in…

Chemicals & Materials

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