Burghausen: Investment focal point of international magnitude
In order to remain at the forefront in the future, investments totaling around €2.5 billion were initiated in Burghausen between 2015 and 2025, primarily in the chemical and petrochemical industries. With a total of approximately €5 billion completed over the last 20 years, Burghausen and the region are an investment focus of international proportions.
Investment activities at the Burghausen chemical site
The focus of investment activities is on chemical and refinery industry companies and their associated service providers. Burghausen's chemical companies spent around €2 billion on new construction and expansion projects, as well as technical measures, from 2015 to 2025.
Public and private sector investment activities at Burghausen as a business location
The ongoing momentum is also reflected in impressive investment volumes in the expansion of logistics and industry-related services, in trade and commerce with the development of Burghausen's new town center, in residential construction, and in the upgrading and strengthening of the educational center: An estimated €250 million will be invested in private and municipal projects by the end of the 2020s.
For example, by 2028, the Salzach Center site will be redeveloped and sustainably designed with the construction of a technical center on the Burghausen Campus of the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences and a residential and commercial complex by VR ImmoInvest GmbH.
Salzach Area: New Technical Center at the Burghausen Campus of the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences
The technical center at the Burghausen Campus of the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences is planned with construction costs of approximately €59 million. The Wirtschaftsbeteiligungsgesellschaft (WiBG) GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the City of Burghausen, is leading the construction project. Construction work on the technical center began in 2023, and completion is scheduled for the end of 2027.
Salzach Area: Residential and Commercial Complex by VR ImmoInvest GmbH
Construction of the large-scale residential and commercial complex by VR ImmoInvest GmbH, which is also being built on the site of the former Salzach Center, has begun in 2025, with completion planned for 2028. The investment is in the double-digit million euro range.
- €300 million by 2025 to expand polysilicon production capacity at the Wacker plant (Wacker Chemie AG)
- €300 million/year in technical expenditure at Wacker/OMV/Borealis
- €200 million on a new butadiene plant at OMV Deutschland GmbH in 2015
- €200 million on construction of private and public housing up to 2028
- €60 million public goods terminal and Greiwing logistics centre at the container terminal from 2013 to 2019
- €59 million on a technical center on the Burghausen Campus of the Rosenheim University of Applied Sciences from 2023 to 2027
- €47 million on teaching and laboratory buildings at the technical university Campus Burghausen from 2019 to 2025
- €18 million on the Raitenhaslach Study & Residence Centre of the Technical University of Munich up to 2016
- €10 million on the new headquarters of Hinterschwepfinger Bau GmbH up to 2020
- €5 million on the BRK paramedic school with 200 training places in 2015
- €5 million on a three-lane extension of the B20 to the A94 junction Marktl-Burghausen in 2016/2017