About Chemie Technik

Chemie Technik

CHEMIE TECHNIK — "das verfahrenstechnische Magazin für Führungskräfte und Investitionsentscheider im chemischen Anlagenbau" (the process-engineering magazine for executives and investment decision-makers in chemical plant engineering) — is the Heidelberg specialist magazine for the process industry, published by the Hüthig Medien GmbH within the Süddeutscher Verlag Hüthig Fachinformationen. First published in the early 1970s (the magazine's facts page gives 1972; library records document the title from 1974; ISSN 0340-9961), the magazine appears seven times a year with a 20,230-copy print run (55th volume in 2026), plus the daily chemietechnik.de portal and the special publications: "Kompetenz entscheidet" (competence decides).

Overview

The magazine serves the process industry's decision-makers: the executives, the planners, and the investment decision-makers in chemical plant engineering, process technology, and the process industry. The editorial program covers the practice-oriented topics: the plant engineering and plant technology, the process technology, the energy and environment, the branch and market, the process automation, the digitalization, the sustainability and decarbonization, the hydrogen economy, the energy efficiency, the pump and fluid technology, the measurement/control/regulation technology, the explosion protection, the plant and process safety, the maintenance, the circular economy, and the AI in the process industry.

The crossmedia concept — the seven print issues, the daily online portal, the special publications (the POWTECH/Technopharm fair guide, the industrieWASSER, the wall calendar, the Engineering Summit) — gives the industry the information mix: the monthly practice articles and short reports by selected authors on daily-current topics from more than 20 areas. The investment-decision audience — the readers' role — deserves its telling. The executives and investment decision-makers — the plant managers, the engineering heads, the procurement — decide the millions: the plants, the apparatus, the automation. The planners — the engineering firms, the EPC contractors — design the investments: the concepts, the bids. The 20,230-copy print run — the verified distribution — reaches the desks: the decision-makers' reading. The 280-euro subscription — the professional price — signals the value: the investment intelligence. The more-than-20 areas — the practice articles' breadth — cover the needs: the daily-current topics. The magazine's promise — "die richtige Mischung für effektiven Werbeeinsatz" (the right mix for effective advertising use) — sells the advertisers: the decision-makers' attention — the B2B trade press's currency.

History

CHEMIE TECHNIK — the chemical technology's journal — began in the early 1970s: the "Kennziffer-Fachzeitschrift für das gesamte Gebiet der chemischen Technik" (the code-number specialist journal for the entire field of chemical technology), published by the Hüthig in Heidelberg. The title's evolution — the subtitle changes (Anlagen, Apparate, Verfahren, Messtechnik, Umwelttechnik), the supplements (Chemie-Umwelt-Technik 1988–1999, the Achema guide, the industrial-parks compendia, the Pharma+Food specials) — documents the five decades: the process industry's transformation, the magazine's adaptation.

The Hüthig tradition — the Heidelberg publishing house — deserves its telling. The Hüthig — the Heidelberg specialist publisher (Im Weiher 10, 69121 Heidelberg) — serves the technical industries: the chemistry, the pharma, the food, the automation. The Süddeutscher Verlag Hüthig Fachinformationen (SVHFI) — the joint venture of the Süddeutscher Verlag and the Hüthig — combines the regional daily's group (Süddeutsche Zeitung) with the specialist press: the B2B pillar. The Ultima Media Germany — the Verlag (Hultschiner Straße 8, 81677 München) — operates the titles: the Munich management, the Heidelberg editorial. The cluster Industry/Automotive — the Süddeutscher Verlag's B2B division (COO Stefan Waldeisen) — houses the titles: the CHEMIE TECHNIK, the Pharma+Food, the automation journals. The 55th volume (2026) — the five-and-a-half decades — documents the continuity: the chemical technology's journal since the early 1970s. The editorial — the Redaktionsstandort Heidelberg; the Chefredakteur Digital Jona Göbelbecker (since January 2024, also for Pharma+Food; with the titles since 2018, volontär to editor to editor-in-chief) — carries the transformation: the continuity and the fresh impulses.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the process industry's year. The plant-engineering coverage — the plant construction, the plant technology, the apparatus — treats the core: the chemical plants' engineering, building, and operation. The process-technology coverage — the processes, the unit operations — gives the science: the practice-oriented articles. The automation coverage — the process automation, the measurement/control/regulation, the digitalization, the AI in the process industry — addresses the modernization: the smart plants.

The process industry's transformation — the magazine's reporting context — deserves its telling. The chemical industry's decarbonization — the "Mischung aus Unsicherheit und Aufbruch" (mixture of uncertainty and new beginnings) the editor-in-chief describes — dominates the agenda: the energy costs, the hydrogen economy, the electrification. The digitalization — the AI in the process industry, the digital twins, the predictive maintenance — modernizes the plants: the data's value. The circular economy — the recycling, the material loops — reshapes the production: the sustainability's business. The regulation — the explosion protection, the plant safety, the documentation — constrains the operations: the compliance. The skilled-labor shortage — the engineers, the technicians — challenges the industry: the knowledge transfer. The magazine's program — the practice articles, the market reports, the Engineering Summit — guides the transformation: "Der kontinuierliche Informations- und Erfahrungsaustausch innerhalb unserer Branchen wird für das Gelingen der Transformation entscheidend sein" (the continuous information and experience exchange within our industries will be decisive for the transformation's success). The maintenance coverage — the maintenance and servicing, the pumps and fluid technology — treats the operations: the reliability, the availability. The branch-and-market coverage — the industry news, the markets — gives the business: the companies, the investments.

Organization and Ownership

CHEMIE TECHNIK is published by the Hüthig Medien GmbH, Im Weiher 10, D-69121 Heidelberg, telephone +49 (0) 6221 489-207, web chemietechnik.de, email sabine.wegmann@huethigmedien.de. The Herausgeber is the Süddeutscher Verlag Hüthig Fachinformationen GmbH (SVHFI); the Verlag is the Ultima Media Germany GmbH (Hultschiner Straße 8, 81677 München). The Geschäftsführer is Moritz Warth. The editor-in-chief is Jona Göbelbecker (also for Pharma+Food). The advertising contact is Sabine Wegmann (with Holger Wald).

The business model follows the B2B trade-press pattern: the subscriptions (inland 280 euros plus 12.95 shipping = 292.95; abroad 305.90; single copy 42 euros), the advertising (the process-industry suppliers), the specials, and the events (the Engineering Summit). The memberships — the Deutsche Fachpresse, the IVW — document the professional standards. Detailed current circulation figures beyond the 20,230 print run are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The brand's digital home is chemietechnik.de: the daily portal with the current detail information and the service offerings — the news, the practice articles, the market reports. The Chefredakteur Digital — Jona Göbelbecker — drives the digital: the new formats, the continuous information and experience exchange. The media data 2026 — the 33-page document — systematizes the crossmedia: the print, the online advertising, the events.

The fairs and specials — the brand's extensions — deserve their telling. The ACHEMA — the world forum for the process industries (Frankfurt) — sets the rhythm: the Achema guide (the uncounted supplement) orienting the visitors. The POWTECH/Technopharm — the powder and bulk-solids fair (Nuremberg) — gets the fair guide: the special publication. The Engineering Summit — the flagship conference, driven by the editor-in-chief — gathers the engineers: the transformation's exchange. The industrieWASSER — the water special — treats the industrial water: the treatment, the reuse. The wall calendar 2027 — the annual gift — decorates the offices: the brand's presence. The industrial-parks compendia — the Chemie-Pharma special — map the locations: the sites, the services. The magazine's fair coverage — the previews, the reports — documents the gatherings: the innovations, the business. The specials — the POWTECH/Technopharm fair guide, the industrieWASSER, the wall calendar 2027 — extend the print: the focused publications. The digital strategy follows the B2B logic: the print magazine for the deep process-industry coverage — the plant engineering, the technologies — the daily portal for the current news.

As the process industry's investment-decision magazine — the early-1970s-founded title, published by the Hüthig Medien within the Süddeutscher Verlag Hüthig Fachinformationen — CHEMIE TECHNIK remains the executives' companion: the plant engineering, the process technology, and the markets — seven times a year from Heidelberg, daily on chemietechnik.de.