75 Years of Potash Engineering Made in Erfurt – 35 Years of Experience Worldwide 75/35 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 75/35 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 2022 06.10. – 08.10.2022 International Symposium under the Patronage of
the Thuringian Prime Minister, Bodo Ramelow, for the Double Anniversary
70 Years of Potash Engineering Made in Erfurt – 30 Years of Experience Worldwide
Exploration, Extraction and Processing of Mineral Salts –
Creation and Use of Underground Cavities in Saline Host Rock International Symposium 2017 75/35 2022 75/35

75 Years of Potash Engineering Made in Erfurt –

35 Years of Global Engagement

Three-quarters of a century of successful planning, consultancy and expert assessment for the potash industry –with nearly half of that time spent on the international stage –provides us with yet another excellent reason to organise an

International Symposium from 17 to 19 June 2027 at the Congress Center Messe Erfurt

on the topic of

Potash and Rock Salt: Raw Material and Host Rock

to facilitate discussions with colleagues from Germany and abroad on the current challenges facing the mineral salt industry, as well as the creation and utilisation of underground cavities for backfilling, the disposal of hazardous waste and radioactive waste, and special mining projects in saline host rock.

We will send you an invitation with the detailed programme in due course, but please mark the date in your calendar now.

Our symposium is taking place concurrently with the 50th Krämerbrückenfest in Erfurt.

As demand for hotel rooms in Erfurt and the surrounding area is expected to be high during this period, we recommend making your reservation directly with the hotel well in advance.

If you have any enquiries regarding our symposium at this stage, please send an email to 75_35@ercosplan.com or simply call us at +49 361 3810510.

Kind regards and Glückauf!

Employees, management and shareholders of the ERCOSPLAN Group of Companies

 

By the way …

  • Erfurt boasts a 500-year history in mining and mining consultancy: in 1527, the fourth edition of the “Nützlich Bergbüchlin” by Ulrich Rülein von Calw – the first German-language work on state-of-the-art mining techniques – was published by Johann Loersfelt at the ‘Zum Färberfass’ house in what is now Pergamentergasse. At that time, the Krämerbrücke already bore its present-day name and had been rebuilt in its current form following its destruction in the great city fire of 1472.
  • our 75th anniversary marks the founding of the Zentralen Projektierungs- und Konstruktionsbüro für die Kaliindustrie und den Nichterzbergbau (ZPKB) in May 1952 –the first independent entity dedicated to providing engineering support to the East German potash industry. The ZPKB had its origins in the planning group of the Erfurt branch of the Staatlichen Aktiengesellschaft KALI, which was founded in 1949 and was based in the former General Post Office at Beethovenplatz 3.
  • our 35th anniversary marks the founding of ERCOSPLAN Erfurter Consulting- und Planungsbüro GmbH on 19 May 1992, which commenced operations on 01 July of the same year.
  • the Krämerbrückenfest is also taking place at the time of our double anniversary; an annual cultural highlight of city life, the festival is itself will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. All the more reason for you to accept the invitation to our anniversary event in Erfurt. We look forward to seeing you here!

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