PCC donates another 10,000 euros to local homeless charity Gemeinsam gegen Kälte Duisburg e.V.

Duisburg, February 1, 2024. PCC has made another donation of 10,000 euros this winter to local homeless charity Gemeinsam gegen Kälte Duisburg e.V. This continues a tradition that PCC SE has built for several years as the Duisburg-based company has been supporting the work of the charity since 2019 making generous annual donations totaling 70,000 € to date. The charity was founded by Duisburg citizens more than 25 years ago. Its volunteers are committed to helping people who found themselves at the margins of society, and their main objective is to help people in Duisburg who are homeless, or at the brink of homelessness. They also extend their help to an increasing number of people who are no longer able to cope in everyday life due to financial and personal challenges.

On February 1, 2024, PCC SE handed over a donation of 10,000 euros to local homeless charity Gemeinsam gegen Kälte Dusiburg e.V., supporting social and medical care work for homeless people in Duisburg. Image credits: PCC SE

Ulrike Warnecke, Member of the Executive Board of PCC SE, presented the donation check to Roland Meier, 1st Chairman of the charity Gemeinsam gegen Kälte Duisburg e.V., on February 1, 2024. Apart from them, Mayor Sören Link and Astrid Neese, Head of the city’s education and social affairs department, also attended the check handover ceremony in front of Duisburg’s city hall. „Through this follow-on donation, we wish to express our gratitude to the Gemeinsam gegen Kälte Duisburg e.V. charity and its numerous volunteers for their tireless efforts“, said Ulrike Warnecke. „We are glad to be able to contribute to the continued success of their work for the sixth time in a row now.”

„This repeated generous donation from PCC is extremely important to us and makes us very happy”, the charity’s first chairman Roland Meier explained. „When it comes to medical and social care work, we completely depend on donations as our charity does not receive any public funding or other regular subsidies. All the while, poverty is becoming increasingly visible in Duisburg and other cities struggling with high unemployment. It is our mission and motivation to enable people at the margins of society to regain participation and to counsel and support them along this journey.”

Among other things, the donations made by PCC SE so far were used to fund service vehicles. For example, a new KälteBus was purchased, while the MediBus providing medical care for the homeless underwent a complete overhaul. The KälteBus („bus against the cold“) is used by the charity to deliver clothes and food to the homeless. At the same time, the MediBus ambulance provides medical care to people on the street carrying a team of volunteering doctors, nurses, and drivers. This kind of care is particularly helpful for people who do not have health insurance or who face difficulties being admitted to doctors’ surgeries or hospitals.

This repeat donation to Duisburg’s homeless charity underscores PCC’s social commitment to the community of the city where the group’s headquarters is based. PCC has been supporting social and community initiatives for many years – both in Duisburg and internationally. In Duisburg, PCC has been the main sponsor of the regional league soccer club VfB Homberg e.V. since 2003 and is the name sponsor of its home venue, the PCC stadium. In the social domain, PCC has in recent years supported not just Gemeinsam gegen Kälte Duisburg but also the child protection charity Deutscher Kinderschutzbund, again in Duisburg. In Poland, Group companies such as PCC Rokita SA and PCC Exol SA have received numerous awards in international CSR rankings in recognition of their commitment to corporate social responsibility.

More information about the Gemeinsam gegen Kälte Duisburg e.V. charity can be found at:
https://gemeinsam-gegen-kaelte-duisburg.de/

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.