Complementary Business Segments

Waste Management and Recycling
The Waste Management and Recycling business segment uses the underground caverns created as a result of the extraction of crude salts for the long-range safe disposal of waste and for waste recycling while employing the available infrastructure of active potash and salt mines. We offer long-lasting solutions that meet market needs using the latest in waste management and recycling systems. We are the technological leader in Europe for the provision of underground waste management ensuring the safe disposal of contaminated waste over long periods of time.

Logistics (KTG )
The K+S Group shipped 40.6 million tonnes of goods last year. The Group possesses two logistics service providers of its own through Kali-Transport Gesellschaft mbH (KTG), Hamburg, and its subsidiaries, as well as Empremar. The operation of the “Kalikai” in Hamburg, one of Europe’s largest transshipment facilities for exports of bulk goods, is KTG’s core business and of strategic importance for the Potash and Magnesium Products business segment at the same time. In January 2008, we completed the expansion of our trans-shipment capacities at the “Kalikai”. Following this expansion, the storage capacity there is about 400,000 tonnes.

Animal hygiene products
At our Salzdefurth location, an exemplary way has been found of successfully continuing to use existing plants and extensive sections of the infrastructure of a disused potash plant and of creating jobs. We use the site to granulate the animal hygiene product CATSAN® for the Mars Group.

Trading business (CFK)
Our subsidiary Chemische Fabrik Kalk (CFK) trades in various basic chemicals. They include calcium chloride, sodium carbonate (soda), caustic soda and sodium sulphate. CFK’s customers include wellknown European chemical companies, glass manufacturers, metal processing businesses as well as local authorities, which use calcium chloride solution for prewetted salt application by winter road maintenance services.

Websites of our subsidiaries:

• K+S Entsorgung GmbH
• Kali-Transport Gesellschaft mbH
• UBT See- und Hafen-Spedition GmbH
• Chemische Fabrik Kalk GmbH

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