Page 6 - Port Of Hamburg Magazine 04.2019
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■ INNOVATIVE INDUSTRY
The chemical industry in Northern Germany
is shaped by small and medium-sized companies. Almost 80 percent employ fewer than 100 staff. Industry structure is generally heterogeneous.
Over 81,000 employees in
450 companies
1,000
new vocational training places per year in
50 trades
In Schleswig-Holstein one accent is on pharmaceuticals
In Hamburg personal care, cleaning materi- als and basic chemicals dominate
Lower Saxony focus-
es on basic chemicals, especially plastics, additives, paints and cleaning materials, often produced for the auto- motive industry
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Northern German chemical industry overview:
