Syneqt to manage two chemical parks

Evonik has created a new firm called Syneqt to manage the infrastructure activities of the Marl and Wesseling chemical parks. Starting operations on 1 January 2026, Syneqt will turn over some €1.8 billion/year, making it one of the largest providers of services in the process industry in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Although Evonik will remain a wholly owned subsidiary of Evonik and still part of its long-term efficiency measures, it will be “a powerful company with medium-sized structures and fast decision-making”, said labour director Thomas Wessel. Other investors may also take stakes in it in time.

Syneqt will have about 3,500 employees, mostly at Marl, and expertise in such areas as energy supply, pipeline construction and operation, safe facility and plant management, technical services, waste disposal, port operations, plant logistics, fire brigades and plant security. As well as Evonik itself, it is already providing services to about 25 companies.

“We have combined all the qualifications and fundamentals to be able to develop the sites in the long term into climate-neutral, digitally networked and highly flexible industrial ecosystems with modular, tailor-made assets, closed material cycles and smart services,” said management spokesman Thomas Basten. “In the future, we will be able to concentrate fully on these core tasks and thus retain existing customers in the long term and attract new ones.”

Growth opportunities are seen in the wider Rhine-Ruhr chemical industry. Marl, which is Evonik’s largest production site, and Wesseling already operate an industrial hydrogen network and are connected to raw material and energy pipelines.