The Duisburg-based PCC Group turns 30 years old: On December 7, 1993, Petro Carbo Chem Rohstoffhandelsgesellschaft mbH, or PCC GmbH for short, an international trading house for petrochemical, carbochemical and natural gas-based raw materials, was entered into the commercial register. The goal of the company founder, sole shareholder and current Chairman of the Supervisory Board of PCC SE, Waldemar Preussner, was to tap into the growth opportunities in raw materials trading in the newly opening markets of Eastern Europe, especially Poland. Preussner, already a successful raw materials manager at the time, had grown up in Poland and never lost his interest in Eastern European countries even after moving to Germany as a young man. PCC GmbH began operations on January 1, 1994, and in its first year of existence achieved sales of €59.4 million. In 1997, PCC GmbH started its own chemical business, which is now by far the largest revenue and profit contributor to the PCC Group. In 1998, PCC AG was founded by spinning off from PCC GmbH. The company headquarters became the PCC Villa in the Homberg district of Duisburg. In the same year, 25 years ago now, 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 converted into a European stock corporation, PCC SE. Today, PCC is an innovative, investment-strong and diversified group with around 3,300 employees in 17 countries. The PCC Group’s focus lies in the production of chemical raw materials as well as specialty chemicals and silicon metal, complemented by the growing business of cross-border intermodal container transport. “It fills me with pride and joy to see how we have shaped a successful internationally operating group of companies over the past decades, starting from Duisburg,” says company founder Preussner. “And as we have done since our foundation, we continue to think about our possibilities as consistently as creatively throughout the world. For example, with our new expansion projects in Malaysia, where we have just realized a major investment, or in the US state of Texas, where we have reached initial milestones for the construction of a production facility.” “Since our foundation, we at PCC, some of whom have been on board for decades, have lived the spirit of ‘We are PCC’,” explains Dr. Peter Wenzel, CEO of PCC SE. “The combination of agility and consistency, of cosmopolitanism and local roots makes the PCC Group something very special.”
