70 Years of Potash Engineering Made in Erfurt – 30 Years of Experience Worldwide 2017 1949 How It All Started 1949 - 1952 Staatliche Aktiengesellschaft für Kalidüngemittel “KALI”
(State Joint Stock Company for Potash Fertilizers) with its headquarter in Erfurt and an independent branch office for project engineering tasks 70/30 1952 The Cornerstone is Being Laid 1952
 Nationalization of the entire potash industry in the GDR
Foundation of the VEB Zentrales Projektierungs- und Konstruktionsbüro für die Kali-Industrie und den Nichterzbergbau (ZPKB) in Erfurt
 1949 1955 Kali-Ingenieurbüro (KIB) Erfurt
 30.12.1955 Foundation of the Kali-Ingenieurbüro (KIB) Erfurt 1952 1957 A New Office Building 1957
 The new administrational building for the KALI-Ingenieurbüro is built in the former Klement-Gottwald-Strasse 28, today our company headquarters in Arnstaedter Strasse in Erfurt.
Topping-Out Ceremony on 26 April 1957
Main Entrance and Staircase
Then modern office building architecture, today declared a historic monument
 
 1955 1970 Foundation of the Kombinat KALI
 01.01.1970 The Kali-Ingenieurbüro (KIB) Erfurt is losing its independence and is integrated in the new founded Kombinat KALI. The most modern potash plant in Europe is built: Zielitz Potash Plant – project engineering and construction supervision made in Erfurt. 1957 1990 06.08.1990 Right before the reunification of East and West Germany, after a management buy-out, the project engineering direction sector becomes KIB PLAN GmbH.
 Facing the Market Economy 1970 1992 01.07.1992 The KIB PLAN GmbH changes its name to ERCOSPLAN
Erfurter Consulting- und Planungsbüro GmbH. A Trade Mark is Born 1990 2009 05.09.2009 International Anniversary Symposium under the patronage of the Thuringian Minister for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Environment, Dr. Volker Sklenar on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the Kali-Ingenieurbüro Erfurt Anniversary Symposium 1992 2012 08.11. - 10.11.2012 International Symposium on the occasion of the double anniversary
60 years of Potash engineering made in Erfurt,
20 years of ERCOSPLAN Group of Companies

Potash fertilizer production in the 21st century International Anniversary Symposium 2009 2017 08.06. – 10.06.2017 Ramelow on the occasion of the double anniversary
65 years of Potash engineering made in Erfurt and
25 Years of ERCOSPLAN Group of Companies

The Potash Industry in the 21st Century
Exploration, Mining, Processing and Disposal of Resulting Residues
 International Anniversary Symposium 2012 70/30

Congratulations ERCOSPLAN

On the occasion of its double anniversary “70 Years of Potash Engineering Made in Erfurt – 30 Years of Experience Worldwide”, the ERCOSPLAN Group of Companies held an International Symposium on the topic: “Exploration, Extraction and Processing of Mineral Salts – Creation and Use of Underground Cavities in the Saline Host Rock”.

The event was held under the patronage of Thuringia’s Premier, Bodo Ramelow. More than 250 participants from 21 countries and 6 continents, including high-ranking representatives from the mining and fertiliser industry, representatives from mining and environmental authorities as well as private and institutional investors accepted the invitation – and thus also demonstrated their appreciation of the work done by ERCOSPLAN, which fills its employees, management and shareholders with pride.

Every five years, with such anniversary events, ERCOSPLAN offers a podium for the discussion of economically feasible and ecologically sustainable concepts in the production of potash fertilisers as well as the creation and use of underground cavities for backfilling, hazardous waste storage and radioactive waste repositories in the saline host rock. The always very wide national and international response underlines the importance of this dialogue, which helps to establish sustainable solutions in practice and to find the right balance between economics and ecology, as well as meet social responsibility.

With this in mind, ERCOSPLAN and its guest speakers at the symposium presented a programme of 35 specialist lectures and an exhibition with over 30 posters, and explained deposit geology as well as mining aspects within two full-day excursions to the Werra and the South Harz Potash Districts.

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