4-592: Tessenderlo Group is a multinational industrial group that was founded in Tessenderlo , Belgium , in 1919 as Produits Chimiques de Tessenderloo. The group's areas of business include the production, trading and marketing of crop nutrients and crop protection products, animal by-product processing, and industrial services. Tessenderlo Group is traded on the Euronext Brussels stock exchange. On Wednesday, 29 April 1942, an enormous explosion of ammonium nitrate destroyed
8-518: Is where the three Belgian provinces of Limburg, Flemish Brabant and Antwerp meet at the front gate of the Averbode Abbey . The municipality Tessenderlo encompasses the villages of Tessenderlo proper, Schoot , Engsbergen , Hulst and Berg . On January 1, 2006, Tessenderlo had a total population of 16,811. The total area is 51.35 km which gives a population density of 327 inhabitants per km . The name Tessenderlo means " (the open place in)
12-475: The entire Produits Chimiques de Tessenderloo factory and much of the surrounding town of Tessenderlo. In the incident, 189 people died and more than 900 were injured. The factory was later rebuilt in the same place, a very controversial decision. Tessenderlo Tessenderlo ( Dutch pronunciation: [təˈsɛndərˌloː] ; Limburgish : Loei ) is a municipality in the Belgian province of Limburg . It
16-647: The forest of the Taxandrians ". It is along the Albert Canal and the European route E313 , the highway between Antwerp and Liège , one of the reasons it was the place for the first Belgian "Industrial Zone of National Importance" in the 1960s. Tessenderlo was the scene of an infamous industrial disaster during World War II, when a stock of 150 tonnes of ammonium nitrate at the chemical plant of Produits Chimiques de Tessenderloo (now Tessenderlo Group ) - located near
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