Holborn is an integrated downstream energy group. Its three operating companies cover the full value chain, from crude oil procurement and refining in Hamburg to a nationwide retail network in Germany.
Holborn Investment Company Limited is the group's non-operating holding company. It holds and oversees the three operating companies, each managed independently within its field.
Holborn European Marketing Company Limited
HOLBORN Europa Raffinerie GmbH · Hamburg
Deutsche Tamoil GmbH · HEM
Engineers, operators, safety specialists and retail teams. The group's performance rests on the experience of the people who run each stage of the value chain.
The group took shape one step at a time. Each stage built on the one before it, from a coal business in 1925 to renewable fuels in 2027.
Hermann Eggert starts a coal business in Elmshorn, the roots of the HEM name.
The group acquires the closed Hamburg refinery. On 22 December the first tanker, NEDI 1, berths at Dock 6.
Production restarts on 4 January, and former employees return.
Crude arrives by pipeline from Wilhelmshaven. The first HEM station opens in Westerrönfeld.
HEM expands into a nationwide network, giving the group a direct position in the German retail market.
Renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel production is planned to start in Hamburg.
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Construction of the plant for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel has reached its halfway mark. Commissioning is planned for 2027.
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German Customer Award 2026, fuel-station category.
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The refinery acquisition, its restart in 1988 and the move into retail: the decisions that shaped today's value chain.
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