Volkseigener Betrieb
After the war, the Schkopau plant was seized by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany and re-organised as a Publicly Owned Operation ("Volkseigener Betrieb", VEB) of East Germany. The "VEB Chemische Werke Buna" combine, the world's largest producer of carbide in 1958, became known for its "Plaste und Elaste" products but also for outdated production facilities and heavy industrial pollution. Taken over by the East German Treuhand agency upon the Peaceful Revolution in 1989, it is today a subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company.