Europe, Middle East, Africa

Albemarle Hungary KFT is a subsidiary of Albemarle Corporation and operates as a shared service center in support of Albemarle's US and EU based businesses and functions. One of Albemarle's Centers of Excellence, or "ACE", Albemarle's Hungary location is a flexible, global platform that is cost-effective and efficient, thereby enhancing our competitive position and our ability to support sustained growth. ACE is a critical component of Albemarle Corporation's overall business strategy.

Albemarle's German Lithium Business is based in Frankfurt am Main.

Louvain-la-Neuve serves as Albemarle's headquarters for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and houses sales, business, administration and advocacy offices.

Our 50% interest in JBC, a consolidated joint venture established in 1999, with operations in Safi, Jordan, acquires bromine that is originally sourced from the Dead Sea. JBC processes the bromine at its facilities into a variety of end products. The JBC operation is located in on a 26-ha area on the southeastern edge of the Dead Sea, about 6 kilometers north of the of the APC plant. JBC also has a 2-hectare storage facility within the free-zone industrial area at the Port of Aqaba. The Port of Aqaba is approximately 205 km south of JBC via Highway 65. 

A concentrated bromide-enriched brine extracted from APC’s evaporation ponds is the feed material for the JBC plant. Following the formation of the joint venture, the JBC bromine plant began operations in 2002. Expansion of the facilities to double its bromine production capacity went into operation in 2017. The climate, geology and location provide a setting that makes the Dead Sea a valuable large-scale natural resource for potash and bromine. Today, the Dead Sea has a surface area of 583 km and a brine volume of 110 km. The Dead Sea is the world’s saltiest natural lake, containing high concentrations of ions compared to that of regular sea water and an unusually high amount of magnesium and bromine. There is an estimated 900 million tonnes of bromine in the Dead Sea.