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1934	Foundation of the Braunkohlen-Benzin-AG (BRABAG)
1936	German government permits BRABAG to erect a plant for the generation of fluid products on the site of Zeitz
1938	Starting up of the hydrogenating plant
1940- 1945	Hard bomb attacks with approx. 9,000 bombs in total destroy the plant
1945- 1946	Resumption of production under occupation of the US army and subsequent as property of USSR
1954	Conviction of the plant in collective property
1974	Starting up of the primary mineral oil processing
1990	Transformation of hydrogenating plant from collective property enterprise into a Ltd.
1990	Cessation of processing based on carbochemical raw materials
1993	Cessation of lubricating oil and paraffin production
1993	Foundation of a development society as a reception society for dismissed workers and beginning of plant dismantling and demolition
1996	Shut down of mineral oil processing and closing the hydrogenating plant (Hydrierwerk Zeitz GmbH)
1996	Sale of the remaining plants and buildings including land to the ZSG Zeitzer Standortgesellschaft mbH which was founded the same year
1999	The site developing process forward to a modern Chemical and Industrial Park started with the core investment of Radici Chimica Deutschland GmbH

Into the middle of Europe, the first large chemical plants were erected. Central Germany developed to a traditional site of the new line of business. Bitterfeld-Leuna-Zeitz chemistry triangle became the industries historical legend.

The Braunkohlen-Benzin AG (BRABAG) constructed a hydrogenating plant on the ground of the contemporary Chemical and industrial park in 1936 to 1938. Fuel and lubricants were produced from local available brown coal.

After destruction in the World War II and being rebuilt and extended in the 1970s with an oil refinery, Zeitz hydrogenating plant gave itself a clear profile as a basic producer of GDR petrochemical industry. Diesel fuels, engine oils, lubricants and paraffins ranked among the main products. They were exported worldwide.

In the 1990, the site readjusted its economical development and began with dismantling of the old industrial plants. Step by step the area has been renovated under direction and management of the ZSG Zeitzer Standortgesellschaft mbH sparing no effort to develop the site into a modern Chemical and Industrial Park from supraregional importance.

(Further and more detailed information can be looked up in "Hydrierwerk Zeitz - the history of a chemical company" published by the Zeitzer innovativen Arbeitsfördergesellschaft mbH, Hauptstraße 30, 06729 Elsteraue OT Alttröglitz. The publication is there available.)