Leverkusen | November 03, 2011: Chemion Logistik: ten years safe and efficient processes
The service provider Chemion, specialized in location logistics and hazardous goods handling, is celebrating its ten-year anniversary – a time in which the logistics market is undergoing great changes and in which the company has supported its customers with comprehensive solutions. In future, too, the central task in the opinion of Chemion will be: developing innovative and sustainable concepts for permanent corporate success.
„For ten years now Chemion as an independent service provider has been providing local logistical services and is as a specialist in dealing with hazardous goods a reliable partner for companies“, according to Uwe Menzen, Managing Director at Chemion Logistik GmbH. In 2001 the company was founded from the sales companies of Bayer AG. From the very beginning the logistics service provider was faced with the challenge of continuing to offer its existing customers high quality and designing its portfolio in such a way that the services are also attractive for companies outside of the Bayer world. Uwe Menzen: „The fact that we have been able to master this challenge in the past decade in which the world of logistics has changed so significantly can mainly be attributed to the Chemion employees. It is their commitment and their professional and process expertise that are Chemion‘s most important resources.“
A brief review at ten years of Chemion and the most important milestones in the company’s history: in the years 2004 until 2007 Chemion extended resp. built new container terminals in Leverkusen and Dormagen. Through this the company extended its storage capacities enormously and since then has counted among the top 10 in German terminal operators. The service provider also invested in the field of equipment management – an important aspect in hazardous goods logistics and extended its equipment pool significantly: today along with 800 tank containers and 2,000 industrial trucks (of which 400 have explosion protection), it also contains, among others, setting tanks, troughs and 100,000 pallets. Together with other partners Chemion has also developed numerous innovative concepts in the last ten years. For example, Schenker Rail with DB, with which the service provider constructed a shunting platform. This makes the CHEMPARK locations more flexibly linked over the tracks in order to be able to provide an extensive range of services in the field of switching services.
In the future also Chemion sees its central task in making a contribution towards its customers’ corporate success with innovative and sustainable concepts. Since from the point of view of the logistics expert, it is the sustainability aspects in particular that have a central value for the economic success of companies, Chemion also made the topic of sustainability the key theme of its expert forum LOG.lev this year, which took place in Leverkusen on 12th and 13th October. Uwe Menzen: „We are convinced that when questioning existing processes with the aim of optimizing them in view of efficiency and costs, interesting starting points for a new process design emerge through which a contribution is simultaneously made towards sustainability.“
