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INNOVATIVE INDUSTRY ■
ChemDelta Bavaria
To improve communication, 20 companies in the region have joined forces in the ‘ChemDelta Bayern’ initiative. It sets out to boost the degree of awareness of the region beyond its borders, to gain improved acceptance within these and to achieve modernization and improvement of transport infrastructure. Other aims are to secure energy supplies at competitive prices, to ensure training and support for qualified young talent, and compatibility between industrial and climate policy.
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economically and effectively along the added value chain. Opening of the Ethylene Pipeline South – EPS – in 2012 provided ChemDelta Bavaria with access to the NW European ethylene alliance – with the prospect of becoming the hub for a pan-European pipeline network.
60 PERCENT FOR EXPORT
More than nine million tons of freight are shifted annu- ally by road and rail. Around 60 per cent of this is for ex- port. Expansion of road and rail networks is therefore on the agenda, since this has not adequately kept pace with development of the chemical region.
MODERN TERMINAL
The systematic upgrading of the A94 motorway – part of which was just taken into service in October 2019 to help close the gap between Munich and Mühldorf – and twin-track expansion with electrifica- tion of the Munich-Mühldorf-Freilassing – ABS 38 – railway are accordingly at the top of these companies’ wish list. Rail upgrading is assessed as high priority in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan, with realiza- tion set for the foreseeable future. In Burghausen, a state-of-the-art container terminal speeds up han- dling of rail shipments, especially those bound for container ports for onward transport overseas. ■
BOREALIS POLYMERE GMBH (L.) AND
OMV DEUTSCHLAND GMBH IN BURGHAUSEN
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