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Foreign Trade Prize
Niedersachsen Global 51
Nominated large companies for the special award
Symrise AG in Holzminden is one four largest global suppliers
of fragrance and flavouring agents. Its portfolio covers
fragrance and flavouring agents, aroma chemicals
and functional ingredients. Its customers range from multinational
company groups to regional manufacturers who
use Symrise products to produce foodstuffs, drinks, food
supplements, pharmaceutical preparations, perfumes, cosmetics,
personal care products as well as cleaning agents
and detergents. Symrise manufactures more than 30,000
products worldwide and these are frequently based on natural
raw materials such as vanilla, citrus fruits, flowers or
plants. The company exports its products to more than 160
countries and 2,100 of the company’s 5,000 employees work
at the company’s head office in Holzminden. In 2010 the
MDAX listed company generated revenue of € 1,572 billion.
Also operating on a global basis is Solarlux Aluminium
Systeme GmbH. The world’s leading system supplier of
glass folding walls, balcony glazing and glass structures
has its production base in Bissendorf and Osnabrück. Solarlux
operates in 50 countries across the world and has
numerous subsidiaries, sales offices and licensees. 500 of
the 600 employees work in production at the head office of
the family business in Bissendorf.
Hugo Vogelsang Maschinenbau GmbH in Essen near Oldenburg
operates on a global basis. It has developed a range
of technologies around its core product, the elastomercoated
rotary lobe pump. This includes the RotaCut wet
macerator for coarse and fibrous matter in pipe systems.
Vogelsang also develops and markets technology products
and components for biogas plants. These include vacuum
disposal systems for the environmentally-friendly disposal of
waste water tanks in ships trains or buildings. Vogelsang is
the inventor of close-to-the-ground liquid manure spreading
technology using dribble bars. In 2010 480 employees generated
revenue of around € 55 million. Products are exported
to all European countries, important industrial nations
and the emerging BRIC economies.
Images (2): NGlobal Image: Symrise