Alsdorf (German pronunciation: [ˈalsdɔʁf] ⓘ) is a municipality in the district of Aachen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

With the reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War, Prussia was eliminated, and its western provinces are now the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Alsdorf lies.

Today the population is more than ten times larger as a result of mining, which came to Alsdorf in the middle of the 19th century.

To be an attractive employer, the mine company built new houses to offer its employees good working conditions.

These villages are: Begau, Blumenrath, Broicher Siedlung, Busch, Kellersberg, Mariadorf, Neuweiler, Ofden, Ost and Zopp.

Since this time, Alsdorf has successfully changed its image away from a coal city to a modern business location.

The company was founded in 1975 by Warner Music and sold in 2003 to the Canadian stock corporation Cinram International.

Customers are well-known record labels and media companies like Warner Music, Twentieth Century Fox and Universal Pictures.

[5] Besides acquired companies, which either used the closeness to RWTH Aachen University or which saw the favourable location near the borders to Belgium and the Netherlands as advantage.

In June 2022 it was announced that in the first quarter of 2023 Continental the German multinational automotive parts manufacturing company would produce fuel tanks at Alsdorf.

Alsdorf is located in the heart of Europe, within approximately 200 km of the most important economic centers of the European Union.