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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.1 - Manufacture of basic chemicals, fertilisers and nitrogen compounds, plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 October 2015
Employment effect (start)
2 October 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
Clariant, a Swiss chemicals and biotech company, has opened a new biotechnology research centre (CBC) in Munich, which will create 100 jobs. New employees will research the development of bio-based products and –process at the fein chemicals and biofuel division in new biotech centre (CBC). According to Clariant’s CEO, this new biotech centre will be a global research centre as well as its first research centre in Frankfurt (CIC, Clariant innovation centre).
Clariant is a Swiss chemicals and biotech company which was formed in 1995 as a spin-off from Sandoz. The company is headquartered in Muttenz, Swiss, and has 18,000 employees worldwide. Currently, it runs German sites in Ahrensburg, Bitterfeld, Duisburg, Gammelsdorf, Gendorf, Gersthofen, Heufeld, Höchst, Knapsack, Lahnstein, Moosburg, Munich, Oberhausen and Sulzbach.
Sources
2 October 2015: finanznachrichten.de
5 October 2015: GoingPublic Magazin
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Clariant, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 85147, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85147.
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