User Trader2022 hat Beitrag 61350 geliefert, ein Zitat aus dem CC:
"We obviously depend on the reliable supply of natural gas like almost all industrial operations in Germany. The processing of the crude salt as well as the generation of heat and electricity at our production site is based almost entirely on natural gas. Only our winter sites on the Werra plant is mainly supplied with energy by a waste-to-energy plant. A cutback in the supply of natural gas in Europe would lead to supply bottlenecks in the German industry, including for critical infrastructure.
Our products are used as fertilizers for agriculture, as an intermediate for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and as food and animal feed. We, therefore, make a system-relevant contribution to society. If, however, our gas requirement cannot be covered, this will lead to production restrictions.
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Yes. First of all, Bethune is totally out of scope because gas is not an issue in Canada. And that's why I pointed out that the decision to go into Canada with a new production site was a very, very clever one. And in Germany, every site has its own story, I would like to say. So Wintershall is maybe the easiest one. That is one of the three sites in the Werra Valley. Here, we have a waste-to-energy plant, and that can secure production at this winter side -- Wintershall site.
And then we would have to look in each single site, and we would not lose full production if, for example, we would have only 20% or 30% less gas available. But it's very, very tricky, what that mean -- would mean for us.
And, by the way, I should add that gas is only needed for energy and heat. So we don't need gas for our production process itself like some chemical industries, for example, needs gas for the production process. So we could substitute the gas. That would take time. The most probable way would be oil, and we are preparing this. And the time we would need for that differs from site to site as well. Some sites or all -- still have some requirements that we needed because they were running on oil years ago. And on some other sites, it would be -- it would take longer, but it's possible. Sorry for that long answer, but I think that was a very, very important question."
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