Rhineland Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is located in the centre
of Europe, bordering France, Belgium and
Luxembourg and the German Länder
Saarland, North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse
and Baden-Wuerttemberg. With an export
rate of more than 45% Rhineland-Palatinate
outperforms almost all other states in federal
republic and its rate of productivity in
manufacturing is the second highest among
all other German states.
The main sectors in Rhineland-Palatinate are the chemical industry with more than 59.000 employees and a turnover of nearly 21 billion €, the automotive industry (29.416 employees, 9,01 bn EUR), the food processing industry (25.542 employees, 6,36 bn EUR), the metal production and processing industry (37.183 employees, 6,1 bn EUR), the mechanical engineering (35.519 employees, 5,45 bn EUR) and the plastics industry (23.224 employees, 3,78 bn EUR).
But the chemical industry in Rhineland-
Palatinate has led the field for many years,
with one manufacturing job in every five
within the chemical sector (approximately
21% as compared with a country wide figure
of only 7.5%). Well-known names like BASF
AG and Boehringer Ingelheim determine
the picture of the chemical industry in
Rhineland-Palatinate. BASF AG, which
celebrated its 140th anniversary on 6th of
April 2005, is the biggest chemical company
in the world. More than 38.500 people work
at the location in Ludwigshafen. The next
largest employer in the chemical industry is
Boehringer Ingelheim with 5.800 employees
in Ingelheim (10.000 in Germany). It is not
only one of the biggest but also one of most
successful pharmaceutical companies in the
world.
Despite this concentration the industry in the Rhineland-Palatinate, most enterprises are pre-dominantly of a medium-size structure. In Rhineland-Palatinate 49% of the chemical enterprises employ less than 100 coworkers, 23% employ up to 300, 16% up to 500 and only 12% employ 500 or more coworkers. Last but not least the high export quota of approximately 62% in Rhineland- Palatinate in contrast to 53% in the country as a whole underlines the great importance of the chemical industry for the country.
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