Rütgers Group GmbH - CARBORES® NOVARES®

Based on total capacity, the plant at Castrop-Rauxel in North Rhine-Westphalia is the largest site of the Basic Aromatics business line. The largest tar distillation plant in the world is located here as well as other production plants. Using the inland port of the Rhine-Herne Canal directly on the plant premises, raw materials can be supplied by not only by rail and road tanker but also by ship to anywhere in the whole world.

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RUETGERS Canada Inc. at Hamilton in the Canadian province of Ontario is the North American base of our Business Line - Basic Aromatics. As of 1989 it has been a one hundred percent subsidiary of the RÜTGERS group and was built to process an annual capacity of 240,000 metric tons of raw tar. Hard coal tar, the raw material, is bought directly in the neighbourhood, processed to make pitch products and then transported to the North American aluminium plants. In addition, creosote, naphthalene, heating oil and carbon black raw materials are produced.

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RUETGERS Poland Sp. z o. o. belongs since 2000 to RÜTGERS and is the easternmost subsidiary of the group. RUETGERS Poland produces pitch for the aluminium and graphite industries. The site uses soft pitch as a raw material. The raw material deliveries come from Castrop-Rauxel as well as Eastern Europe. RUETGERS Poland has a capacity of 70,000 metric tons of pitch per year. Especially advantageous for the Basic Aromatics business line is its proximity to the East European pitch markets as well as the option of exporting from the port of Szczecin, which has excellent water or rail transport links.

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Belgian Zelzate is the headquarters of RÜTGERS Belgium N.V. and the international Holding RÜTGERS n.v. Every year approximately 300,000 metric tons of tar products are processed here, which explains our competence in BTX and PA. The main operation here is the production of pitch products for the aluminium industry as well as that of phthalic anhydride and benzene, which is processed further to make polymers. Today’s RÜTGERS Belgium has been part of the RÜTGERS group since 1973.

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In 2008 RÜTGERS opened a representation office in Shanghai in order to optimally serve the Asian market. The main representation office in the Chinese conurbation, coordinates and supports the activities of the Business Lines (Basic Aromatics, Resins & Modifiers, Trading) in the Asian sector and is always available to our customers as a point of contact.

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