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Spare parts for refinery and chemical plant around Cologne

When one part of a works stops processing crude and is converted to base oils, you do not get a second plant but a second materials list — and twice the selection decisions. On shukchok material, design and price sit at the same position, before you write an enquiry.

Chemical plant on a river plain: two-storey pipe bridges, distillation columns and spherical tanks, maintenance walkway with orange handrail, a pushed barge at the works quay

Your rhythm on site

A conversion does not create quiet. It creates a second materials list.

The largest refinery site in Germany sits in two parts: in one, crude processing continues; the other is crude-free and being converted to base oils, with a 10 MW electrolyser on the grounds.

And then the friction you know: writing to five suppliers, waiting for queries about material and nominal size, comparing three quotations that mean different things. With an elastomer compound facing the wrong medium, nobody notices at the order, only at the shutdown.

Cologne sits in the domestic zone — EUR 9.49 for a parcel up to two kilograms, no customs border, no export declaration.

  • A specification table on all 114 articles — material, operating limits, design
  • Full-text search finds 1.4404, PTFE or FKM through the specification, not only through the product name

The demand on the ground

Three modes of operation in one catchment area

  • A refinery running in two states

    One part of the works still processes crude, the other has been crude-free since the conversion. Two operating states on one site mean two maintenance plans, two materials lists and two sets of wear parts in the same window.

  • A chemical cluster with over a quarter of the regional turnover

    Just under 12 billion euros of turnover, over 25 per cent of the North Rhine-Westphalian chemical turnover in one place. Process valves, gasket sets and sight glasses are not a project item there but a change interval.

  • One of the highest-throughput waste plants in the country

    Four lines, in service since 1998; in 2016 alone it delivered 363,000 MWh of electricity and steam. Continuous emission monitoring runs around the clock — cooler, PTFE filter element and water separator are consumables inside it.

Turnover in the Cologne chemical area
~ €12 bn
Over 25 % of the chemical turnover of North Rhine-Westphalia in one place.
Electricity and steam delivered from the waste plant in 2016
363,000 MWh
Operator figure, AVG; four lines, in service since 1998.
Electrolyser on the refinery grounds
10 MW
Operator figure, Shell, in service since July 2021 — one more medium in the maintenance plan.
Articles with a price and a specification table, no login
114
Counted through the Storefront API on 8 August 2026.
Dampf-Heizregister 1/2 Zoll mit zwei senkrecht stehenden Messing-Anschlussstutzen und Kupferrohr-Aluminiumlamellen-Wärmetauscher

For suppliers

Your customers are here — and the shelf space costs nothing

Anyone in the Rhineland who manufactures or trades in valves, seals, bellows, filters or sample gas equipment can read the first half of this page as a market description: a refinery running in two states, a chemical cluster with just under 12 billion euros of turnover and a waste plant under continuous measurement. Those are your customers, and they already order here.

A shop of your own would have to earn its keep beside this cluster; the shelf here charges you no fee, because our share arises on a position that sells. You set your own prices and the range stays yours — the shop, the checkout, the invoicing and the customer contact run through us.

For you as a buyer that makes shukchok an open marketplace for industrial goods which changes the order things happen in: the cooler from the sample gas line, the gasket set for the column and the shut-off valve for the steam main come from different manufacturers — and still go into one basket and one ordering process, with your purchase order number and cost centre on the invoice.

  • No listing fee, no monthly fee, no manual product approval
  • Manufacturer and supplier are named visibly at every position
  • One ordering process, one contracting party: contract and payment sit with us

Two ways in

Search the material, not the product name — and put the part beside it

Full-text search reads the specification table and therefore also reaches the part number from your bill of materials. If you manufacture or trade in the Rhineland, hang your range beside it without a listing fee.

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