As a location for the chemical, automotive and plastic processing industry Leverkusen has a well known reputation.

Bayer AG commenced with the tradition, which today more than 4000 medium-sized companies translated into the modern times.

Within this wide spectrum of companies there are many product related service providers represented. A lot of these companies provide and market innovative ideas, future oriented products and intelligent production processes.

Customers in Europe and overseas use the products of the Lanxess AG, the Denso GmbH, the Dynamit Nobel GmbH or use products containing titan-dioxide-pigments of the Kronos Titan GmbH.

In the section of automotive products the vehicle plants of Mazda, the clutch and brake pad producer TMD Friction are as well known as the products of the metal works Biebighäuser GmbH, the CR Elastomere GmbH or the plastic foam products of the Reisgies Schaumstoffe GmbH.

The proof that also smaller companies can demonstrate resilience and success in the international markets are the specialists like Dr.Franz Lohmann, Industrie-Röntgen-röhren, Lux Elements, Hardschaumträgerelemente or the company Meitzner & Meitzner, spectacles. Today these companies in Leverkusener offer about 60.000 people jobs in a broad business spectrum.

Whoever searches for extraordinary transport and traffic connections cannot avoid Leverkusen. The "Leverkusener Kreuz" at the intersection of two German and European very important motorways provide these advantages. This leads to short distances to the international airports of Cologne/Bonn and Dusseldorf as well as across the Rhine to the ports in Cologne, Duisburg and Rotterdam.

Also short are the distances to the renowned Universities and Universities of applied science in Cologne, Dusseldorf, Bonn, Wuppertal and Aachen. This University spectrum is crossing the bridge to the future oriented products from the high-tech industry in Leverkusen. Since the location of a study centre of the Open University of Hagen a few years ago Leverkusen itself became a University city.