Chempark

It is distributed across three sites in Leverkusen, Dormagen and Krefeld-Uerdingen cumulatively measuring 13.3 square kilometres, occupied by more than 60 companies and employing 50,000 people.

Around one-third of North Rhine-Westphalia’s chemical output is produced at these three sites.

It is operated by Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG, formerly known as Bayer Industry Services GmbH & Co. OHG.

On July 27, 2021, at 9:40 a.m. local time, an explosion occurred in the hazardous waste combustion section, blowing up several large containers of chemicals and contaminating large areas of the Rhine-Ruhr-valleys with toxic fallout from the large smoke cloud.

[1][2][3] The explosion killed at least six people, with one more person missing.