Family Business with Innovation Power

Specialty waxes and additives from Völpke. Since 1900. When performance counts.

Company

VOELPKER Spezialprodukte GmbH is a medium-sized family business based in Völpke, Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1900 we have developed and produced specialty waxes.

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A portrait of VOELPKER: our team, our plant, our products. In three minutes.

History

With over 125 years of experience in montan and specialty waxes, we are among the most long-standing wax producers in Europe.

2025
125th company anniversary
2024
The step into Asia: founding of the sales subsidiary VOELPKER Shanghai
2023
Opening of the logistics branch in Barleben
2022
Continuous pellet press — compactates extend the portfolio, higher production capacity
2020
Commissioning of a vacuum plant for gentle esterification
2002
Construction of a melt-blending plant
1995
ISO 9001 certification
1992/93
Improved wax color through new filtration processes
1971
A second business segment: bichromate plant — building the BASOCHROM brand
~1960
The step into chemistry: nitration and sulfonation, first hard waxes — the birth of WARADUR
1941
Flaking roller complements the cast 5 kg blocks
1937–1951
NH₃ deep-cooling plant for more efficient crystallization
1908–1937
Purely physical refining: distillation and crystallization of the wax fractions
1908
From mining to refining: end of own coal, raw montan wax sourced externally
1900
Company founded in Völpke with its own montan wax extraction from local lignite