Choren Industries and Shell

Type
Business expansion
Country
Germany
Region
Sachsen; Chemnitz; Mittelsachsen
Location of affected unit(s)
Freiberg
Sector
Manufacturing
(19) Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum
19 - Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products
19 - Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products
450 jobs
Number of planned job creations
Job creation
Announcement Date
16 August 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2005
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009

Description

Shell and Choren Industries, a leading gasification technology company are going to build a facility that turns biomass into liquid fuel. The joint venture is planning 3 factories in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen with a capacity of 200,000 tons per year. Each of them will have 150 employees.

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2005), Choren Industries and Shell, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 62135, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/62135.