Duisburg, December 7, 2023. The Duisburg based PCC Group turns 30 years old: On December 7, 1993, Petro Carbo Chem Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft mbH, PCC GmbH for short, an international trading company for petro, carbo and natural gas commodities, was enlisted in the commercial register. The aim of the company’s founder, sole shareholder and current chairman of the supervisory board of PCC SE, Waldemar Preussner, was to exploit the growth opportunities in commodities trading in the newly opening markets of Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Waldemar Preussner, already a successful commodities manager back then, grew up in Poland and never lost his interest in the countries of Eastern Europe even after moving to Germany as a young man.
PCC GmbH began its business activities on January 1, 1994 and achieved sales equivalent to €59.4 million in its first business year. In 1998, PCC AG was founded through a spin-off from PCC GmbH. The company headquarters is since then the PCC Villa in Duisburg Homberg. In the same year, 25 years ago, PCC AG also issued its first corporate bond, which remains an important financing instrument for the ongoing expansion of the PCC Group. In 2007, PCC AG was transformed into a joint stock company under European law, PCC SE.
Today, PCC is an innovative, strongly investing, and highly diversified group with around 3,300 employees in 17 countries. The focus of the PCC Group is on the production of chemical commodities as well as specialty chemicals and silicon metal, supplemented by the growth business of cross-border intermodal container transport.
“It fills me with pride and joy how we have formed a successful, internationally operating group of companies over the past decades, starting from Duisburg,” says company founder Waldemar Preussner. “Today, as we have done since our founding, we are continuing to expand our possibilities as consistently and creatively as possible all over the world. For example, we are expanding in Asia with our new project in Malaysia, where we have just completed a major investment, and in the US, where we have reached first milestones for the construction of a production facility in Texas.”
“Since our founding, we all at PCC, some us being on board already for decades, have lived the spirit of ‘We are PCC’,” explains Dr. Peter Wenzel, CEO of PCC SE. “The combination of agility and stability, of cosmopolitanism and local roots makes the PCC Group something very special.”
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About PCC SE
Headquartered in Duisburg, Germany, PCC SE is the parent and investment holding company of the globally active PCC Group with its approx. 3,300 employees. Its Group companies have core competencies in the production of chemical feedstocks and specialty chemicals, silicon and silicon derivatives, and in container logistics. An investor committed to the longer term, PCC SE concentrates on continuously increasing the enterprise value of its portfolio companies through sustainable investments and the ongoing creation of new value. The largest chemical producers of the PCC Group are PCC Rokita SA, a major chlorine manufacturer and Eastern Europe’s leading producer of polyols, and PCC Exol SA, one of Europe’s most advanced surfactant manufacturers. PCC BakkiSilicon hf. operates in Iceland one of the world’s most modern and climate-friendly silicon production facilities. PCC was founded in 1993 by Waldemar Preussner, sole shareholder of PCC SE, who today holds the position of Chairman of the Supervisory Board. The PCC Group generated consolidated sales of around € 1.3 billion and earnings before interest/financial result, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of some € 292.0 million in fiscal 2022, with capital expenditures in the same year amounting to around € 116.3 million.