Petronord and Hansen & Rosenthal Found Joint Venture for Marketing Bitumen and Bitumen Components

Hamburg | 28.11.2016

The Petronord subsidiary Mabanol Bitumen GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, and H&R Refining GmbH, Salzbergen, are establishing a joint venture to systematically market bitumen and bitumen components.

The two partners will own equal stakes in the Hamburg-based joint venture, whose establishment is pending approval by the antitrust authorities. The newly founded joint venture purchases and markets bitumen products from the H&R production sites in Hamburg and Salzbergen among others.

The joint venture will be led by Robertus van Lingen and Frank Albrecht – both of Mabanol Bitumen GmbH & Co. KG – as well as Angela Sahm, who was appointed by H&R Refining GmbH.


Petronord is a subsidiary of Mabanaft, the trading division of Marquard & Bahls, Germany. Under the umbrella of Petronord, 27 retail companies in Germany and Austria are currently active in the heating oil and diesel end-consumer business, the lubricants distribution, the operation of service stations for commercial trucking fleets (“pool stations“) as well as in the trading of bitumen, wood pellets, and natural gas.

The Hansen & Rosenthal group of companies ► www.hur.com is active in the fields of development, manufacture and marketing for chemical-pharmaceutical specialties. Together with H&R GmbH & Co. KGaA, the group operates two specialty refineries in Germany, in Hamburg and Salzbergen. H&R Refining GmbH is a subsidiary of the Hansen & Rosenthal Group and was hitherto responsible as such for the marketing of bitumen products from these refineries. ► back to the overview

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