Sector in brief
The chemical industry is one of the most important branches of industry in Germany and Bavaria. In Europe, Germany ranks first in terms of chemical industry sales – worldwide, Germany takes fourth place after the USA, China and Japan.Today, chemicals are the basis of products in many different sectors, such as skincare, pharmacy, paints and varnishes, plastics, adhesives and synthetic fibres. The chemical industry in Bavaria also offers a very wide range of high-quality products. Global players such as Wacker Chemie are just as much at home in Bavaria as numerous hidden champions. Who is not familiar, for example, with the car care products from SONAX? DELO has been developing custom special adhesives and device systems for applications in high-tech industries, such as the automotive and aviation sectors, for more than 50 years. The RUDOLF Group develops and produces innovative products worldwide for textile finishing, for example for protective or outdoor equipment. Schlenk is a leading international manufacturer of metal powders, metal pigments and metal foils, which are used in the printing ink industry or in cosmetics, for example, to create shiny effects in gift wrap or nail polish.
Anna Damerow
Senior Managerin Investorenbetreuung
+49 89 24210-7519anna.damerow@invest-in-bavaria.deRosenheimer Str. 143C
81671 München
One centre for the industry is the so-called Bavarian Chemical Triangle, ChemDelta Bavaria in the eastern part of Upper Bavaria,which is considered one of the key regions in the chemical industry worldwide. A joint initiative of the companies located there, with a total of around 20,000 employees, combines the interests of all stakeholders, promotes international competitiveness and systematically shapes the attractive further development of the region. Due to the broad range of industrial and user sectors in the region, Bavaria offers the chemical industry a large number of customers for its products and an outstanding logistics infrastructure.
Chemical industry figures
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Second largest chemical location in Germany (by number of people employed in the sector)
56000
employees
62,9
percent Bavaria’s chemical companies’ export ratio
240
Companies active in the sector
A large pool of excellently trained potential staff awaits the chemical sector in Bavaria. Chemical technicians and laboratory assistants of the future, as well as employees for the commercial, industrial and technical sector are trained in more than 60 different occupations in the industry. Around 1,000 young people in Bavaria opt for training in the chemical industry every year.
In addition, more than 50 different courses of study at 11 Bavarian universities and colleges provide the next generation of academics for the chemical industry. Bavaria has an institution with an outstanding international reputation in chemistry in the Technical University of Munich (TUM). TUM has been distinguished as an elite university as part of the government and states’ excellence initiative. But other universities, such as Bayreuth and Augsburg, are also making waves in chemical research, for example in solid state chemistry and material science. The academic research is complemented by application centres and research departments at many Bavarian chemical companies, as well as non-university research institutes. One example of this is the Fraunhofer IGB with its “Bio-, Electro- and Chemocatalysis BioCat” in Straubing. New technologies for the chemical storage of electrical energy have been researched there since 2016.
Bavaria offers attractive funding programmes for innovative research projects at company level in the chemical industry. Institutions such as the Bavarian Research Alliance or the Chemie-Cluster Bayern also assist with accessing funds at national and international level. Depending on the programme, funding may be provided not only for research and development, but also for introducing the developed products to the market. This well-established support in Bavaria provides the ideal conditions for securing the future of the sector through innovation. However, the broad-based academic research in chemistry not only ensures the development of Made in Bavaria innovations, but also provides the sector with the next generation of superbly trained staff.
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