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Industrial park in Germany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chempark is an industrial park for the chemical industry in Germany. 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.
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2021 explosion
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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.[4] Thirty-one others were injured.[5] All the casualties were workers at the site.[6][7]
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