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Your partner for aluminum compounds in the water treatment, paper, construction, and industrial sectors


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ALUCOM AG – With many years of experience, we develop solutions based on aluminum compounds for a wide variety of industries.

ALUCOM AG, headquartered in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, offers its customers solutions for the chemical industry, paper, and water treatment based on its own aluminum compounds. The construction industry also benefits from specialized aluminum compounds.

We are among the largest producers of aluminum compounds such as inorganic precipitants, setting accelerators, special aluminum hydroxides, polyaluminum chlorides (such as PAC and ACH), aluminum sulfates, aluminum formates, and sodium aluminates, as well as mixtures e.g. with iron salts and polymers.


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ALUCOM AG

ALUCOM AG stands for high-quality aluminum compounds that are precisely tailored to your requirements. Whether in the water treatment and paper industry, the construction industry, or the chemical industry, our products help you make processes more efficient, safer, and more sustainable. With decades of experience, we develop solutions that can be seamlessly integrated into your application areas and deliver exactly what you need there.


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History / Production Site

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  • 1823: Paul Giulini, together with his brother Johann-Baptist Giulini, founds the “Schwefelsäurefabrik Wohlgelegen” sulfuric acid plant in Mannheim. After internal disputes, it was renamed “Gebrüder Giulini”.
  • 1851: New construction of the plant in Ludwigshafen (sulfuric acid, soda using the Le Blanc process…)
  • 1865: Commencement of alumina production using French bauxite. Use of pyrite for sulfuric acid production.
  • 1893: Relocation of the production facility to its current location in Ludwigshafen Mundenheim. Expansion to include fertilizers and phosphate salts, focusing on aluminum and aluminum compounds.
    Georg Giulini (le roi d‘alumine) expands and develops the plant in Ludwigshafen
    (Pyrogen process, further development of the Bayer process…). After the Second World War, construction of an aluminum smelter.
  • 1977: ICL takes over the aluminum salts, phosphate salts, fertilizers, and gypsum divisions, Alcoa the aluminum hydroxides and oxides division, and ALCAN the aluminum smelter.
  • 2015: Kurita Europe takes over the aluminum salts, polymers, paper chemicals, and water treatment chemicals divisions from ICL.
  • 2018: LIVIA Group takes over the aluminum salts division on 01.10.2018: → new company name: ALUCOM AG.
  • 2025: The VTA Group takes over ALUCOM AG.

Sustainability

At ALUCOM AG, we attach great importance to promoting the health of people and contributing to environmental protection with our products and our behavior. Our products are used for drinking water and wastewater treatment as well as for increasing the efficiency of industrial processes and thus also for reducing climate-damaging emissions.

Ecovadis Award 2024

We have our sustainability performance independently assessed by EcoVadis every year. You are welcome to contact us about this or request access to our current scorecard via EcoVadis. EcoVadis assesses areas such as the environment, labor and human rights, ethics, and sustainable procurement.

Safety

At ALUCOM, safety has top priority, both the protection of our employees through modern protective equipment and work clothing, and product safety.

Health

We attach great importance to promoting the health of people with our products and our behavior, be it in drinking water treatment, in the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries, or through our health and safety management certified according to ISO 45001.

Environmental protection

With our products, we make an important contribution to environmental protection, use recycled raw materials, and continuously work on reducing emissions as part of our ISO 14001 certification.

Energy efficiency

With our ISO 50001 certification, we demonstrate an effective energy management system that continuously monitors consumption and sustainably implements measures to reduce energy consumption.

Secondary raw materials

By using high-quality tested secondary raw materials, we combine resource conservation with technical excellence and make circular economy possible on an industrial scale.

Contact

Alucom AG
Giulinistraße 2
67065 Ludwigshafen