BaselArea helps South African company to settle in the Basel region
Monday, 14.02.2011

BaselArea helps South African company to settle in the Basel region

With support from BaselArea, the South African company Comar Chemicals from the Cape Town region have found a European production site in the Infrapark Baselland. The company will create about 30 jobs and will build an ultramodern specialty chemicals plant with an area of 1200 m2. Comar produces additives for car tyres designed to reduce rolling resistance and thus the CO 2 emissions of cars.

When the plant in South Africa reached the limits of its capacity in 2007, the owners – two Germans and one South African – looked for a site in Europe. Via the Swiss embassy, they contacted BaselArea and other Swiss sites. The team from BaselArea put together an information package on Basel as an industrial centre and on the sites available in the region. BaselArea then organized site visits and contacts with the authorities. After a Europe-wide search, the decision was finally made in favour of Muttenz. Crucial factors that swung it for Muttenz were the services offered by the Infrapark Baselland, its infrastructure and the high technical standards of Swiss universities.


The Infrapark Baselland is a new industrial park in Muttenz that is aimed especially at industrial companies from the chemical and life sciences sectors. The park is located on the Clariant company site in Muttenz, Canton Baselland, in the trinational region of Switzerland, Germany and France. The park is characterized amongst other things by an extensive range of services for successful research, development and production at a single site.

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