History

2008

Uhde expands its activities in Australia and South-East Asia.
Uhde buys up Clough Ltd.'s 50% shareholding in Shedden Uhde (now Uhde Shedden) and the company with its main offices in Melbourne and Bangkok becomes a fully fledged member of the Uhde group.

2007

Uhde wins its biggest contract in the company's 80 year history.
Egyptian Agrium Nitrogen Products Co. has commissioned Uhde to build a turnkey fertiliser complex in Damietta, some 160 kilometres north-east of Cairo.

2006

The fertiliser complex for Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Co., which comprises the world's biggest ammonia plant (3,300 t/day), comes on-stream in Al Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

2005

Chancellor Gerhard Schröder visits QAFCO 4 fertiliser complex in Mesaieed, Qatar, during his trip to the Gulf region on March 1.

2004

Uhde commissions vacuum distillation unit for Wilhelmshavener Raffineriegesellschaft.

Uhde integrates ThyssenKrupp EnCoke

Inauguration of QAFCO 4 fertiliser complex in Qatar in April.

Uhde acquires INVENTA-FISCHER

2003

Uhde wins contract to build turnkey fertiliser complex from Saudi Arabian Fertilizer Co. (SAFCO). It will be the world's biggest ammonia plant (3,300 t/day); the urea plant will have a capacity of 3,250 t/day.

2002

Brand name Uhde asserts itself as company name. The company changes its name back to Uhde GmbH in June 2002.

Portfolio enhancement for Oil & Gas. Uhde acquires the engineering and plant construction company TESSAG Edeleanu GmbH from the RWE group.

Uhde completes Europe's biggest and most modern vinyl chloride plant for Vintron GmbH in Knapsack near Cologne.

2001

Large-scale chlorine/EDC/VC complex for Qatar Vinyl Company comes on-stream in Qatar. Krupp Uhde completes construction of US$450 million complex in conjunction with Technip Italy, having supplied the complete chain of processes from a single source.

Qatar Fertiliser Company awards second major contract in a row. Another ammonia/urea complex (Qafco 4) with a contract value of US$450 million is to be built in Qatar.

2000

Uhde expands its activities in the pharmaceutical, cosmetics and food technology sectors by taking over PhC-Pharma Consult from within the ThyssenKrupp Group. This company now trades under the new name of Uhde-Pharma Consult.