Gelsenchem – Your Partner for Feedstock Chemicals
From industrial chemicals to renewable energies to waste water treatment – Gelsenchem serves a wide variety of industries and sectors in Germany and Europe with precisely the feedstock chemicals they need. Our customers include major international players and SMEs as well as one-person businesses and public enterprises. We support them all as reliably as we do flexibly – with all our skills and experience.
We are a non-affiliated, owner-operated company. With modern marketing and delivery concepts, we create significant added value for our customers and suppliers and thus assume an important role as the functional link between the producing and consuming industries. We currently generate sales of approximately EUR 75 million.
In everything we do, we demonstrate not only our expertise in chemistry, logistics and sales. With innovative products and concepts, we show our customers the way into the future.
Green the Future!®* is Gelsenchem’s corporate mission. It stands for our commitment to supporting the transformation of industrial applications through selected products, services and corporate measures. Our portfolio includes products for wastewater treatment, the production of renewable fuels and thermal management systems.
*Green the Future!® is not an environmental label and not a blanket statement about the environmental compatibility of all Gelsenchem products.
GERMANY
Hamburg – our headquarters since the company was founded over 30 years ago.
ITALY
The Milan Office – our gateway to Eastern Europe and the global South.
CHINA
The Shanghai Office – the base for our customers and business development in Asia.
USA
The Los Angeles Office – our business hub for North and South America.
SOUTH AFRICA
The Cape Town Office – our investment in one of the world’s emerging economic regions.
8,000
truck, railroad tank car and sea freight transports per year.
Biofuels are one building block for achieving the climate targets in the transport sector
Biofuels saved
11.4 million tons
of CO₂ equivalent in Germany in 2024.
biodiesel accounted for the largest share at 55% .
649 million tons
of greenhouse gases (CO₂ equivalents) – around 48 percent less than in 1990.
The wastewater of around
96%
of people in Germany is treated in public sewage treatment plants.
30 years of Gelsenchem: still owner-operated, still non-affiliated.
1992 Gelsenchem was founded as an oil company.