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Why Delfzijl

Delfzijl is the right location for the chemical industry or circular economic activities.

Delfzijl is a strategic location for developing sustainable chemical and circularity projects in northwest Europe. More than 45 chemical companies are already based in the chemical cluster.

Industrial port

Around 15% of all the chemical products that are produced in the Netherlands come from Delfzijl. After the discovery of gas and salt in the region in the 1950s, Delfzijl became an industrial port with a strong chemical cluster. The chemical companies are linked in a chain and use each other’s products. With the green energy mix provided by wind turbines, biomass, and hydropower, and the opportunities offered by the agricultural hinterland, Delfzijl is becoming the biobased location in northwest Europe. Waste is used increasingly as a raw material for the chemical sector or is turned into energy. The circular economy plays an important role in Delfzijl, which is rapidly turning into the perfect location for the recycling and waste industry.

Port map Delfzijl (PDF)

Available space

The Oosterhorn industrial site in Delfzijl is fully in development. There is a high demand for business plots and various sites have been reserved. Around 300 hectares are still available for businesses out of a total of 1,478 hectares.

Why Delfzijl?

  • Access to global infrastructure (shipping, rail, road)
  • Access to green energy mix and feedstock (wind turbines, solar power, steam, agricultural hinterland, and import)
  • Access to shared utilities
  • Space for scaling up new technologies in the Chemport Innovation Center for chemical, circular and CCU pilots on an industrial scale before full production, optimise supply chains within an active ecosystem