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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
Facing the Market Economy 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.
1970 1992
A Trade Mark is Born 01.07.1992 The KIB PLAN GmbH changes its name to ERCOSPLAN
Erfurter Consulting- und Planungsbüro GmbH.
1990 2009
Anniversary Symposium 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 1992 2012 International Anniversary Symposium 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