Electrocycling

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Electrocycling

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1994
Seat Bad Harzburg , Germany
management Guido Sellin
Hannes Fröhlich
Number of employees 188 (2015)
sales 37.1 million euros (2015)
Website www.electrocycling.de
As of July 13, 2017

The Electrocycling GmbH is a recycling company based in Bad Harzburg district Harlingerode in the district of Goslar , Lower Saxony . It is located on the site of the former Harlingerode zinc smelter and specializes in the recycling of electronic scrap into secondary raw materials. With around 190 employees and a processing rate of almost 55,000 tons of electronic waste per year, the company is one of the three largest companies in the industry in Germany.

task

The company specializes in recycling old electrical appliances and advising customers on how to properly collect them. Commercial as well as municipal and private customers are served. The company offers manufacturers and municipalities a service that includes, among other things, EAR registration , collection point-specific collection and professional disposal of electronic waste; This service is used by several hundred customers (as of 2016). This service is used to maintain a closed recycling cycle and to apply individual implementation concepts.

The materials delivered are then sorted within the plant according to their properties and recyclable content. In this step, the electronic scrap is analyzed for pollutants (example: mercury ) that cannot be sorted out by further automated measures. After this largely manual step, the rest is divided into 35 recyclable material fractions, which differ in type and size. This is done using a sensor-based, automated selection for color and metal. These include steel scrap , aluminum, glass, plastics and copper. The latter fraction contains other precious metals (including gold , silver and palladium ). Recycling rare earths is not possible, but the company is involved in several related research projects. In addition, devices that are still functional after testing are used to secure spare parts or are forwarded to retailers for repair or production of electronic devices.

history

Plant south of the Oker – Bad Harzburg railway line

In 1994, Preussag decided to initiate an internal R&D project relating to the processing of electronic scrap. In particular, the recognition of the significantly higher metal content in electronic scrap than profitable ore deposits prompted the company to take this step.

After the decision to build today's recycling plant on the site of the former zinc smelter in Harlingerode was made at the end of 1994, Electrocycling Anlagen GmbH was founded as owner of the plants and Electrocycling GmbH as operator in 1995 for this purpose . The Deutsche Bundespost , Deutsche Telekom , Siemens AG , Alcatel SEL AG and Noell GmbH were involved. The commissioning took place on August 9, 1995 by the then State Environment Minister Monika Griefahn .

The monthly processing quantities were increased from initially around 1,000 tons per month to 2,000 tons at the beginning of 2000 to a volume of around 4,000 tons in 2011. At the same time, the number of employees was increased from an initial 100 to 188 (as of 2015).

Most recently, the plant capacity was increased from 30,000 to 80,000 tons in 2010. To this end, the company building was expanded and various new buildings were built, including a product store, a factory and warehouse, a medium-voltage distributor including medium-voltage lines and two transformers including the building. As part of this measure, the old industrial pollution points, which had resulted from the former activities of the zinc smelter, were secured, rehabilitated and sealed.

On July 28, 2015, a funding project of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) began, which is to serve the purchase, renovation and subsequent use as a storage and transshipment point for parts of the Harlingerode zinc smelter site. The project is scheduled for total eligible expenditure of approx. 2.7 million euros, 50% of which will be borne by the ERDF. The end of the funding period is set for June 30, 2018.

Company expansion 2019

In 2018, the company acquired a 2.1 hectare plot of land from the former Harlingerode zinc smelter northwest of the current operating area. Several sorting lines ( plastics , sifter and sensor-based) are to be set up in a new production hall on the expansion area, and social rooms are also planned for staff provision. In addition, logistical and traffic requirements are taken into account by setting up a vehicle washing area and a scale for trucks. Also included is an area and contaminated site remediation according to a remediation plan, which, in addition to the newly acquired area, also includes part of the former zinc smelting plant and together covers an area of ​​three hectares.

The choice of location deliberately takes into account the interests of the amendment of the Electrical Equipment Act in October 2015 and also serves as a public reaction to the Oker-Harlingerode Immission Complaints project , which was set up in 2017.

Trivia

  • In June 2013 and July 2017 there were major fires in the plant area. In the latter fire, the high proportion of plastic in the material to be burned was the cause of a lot of smoke; no harmful substances could be detected.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual financial statements as of December 31, 2015 in the Federal Gazette
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Sievers: Against Indian competition: Electrocycling wins raw materials from scrap. In: The region; Braunschweig-Wolfsburg. October 24, 2016, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Case Studies: Electrocycling uses Sesotec Sorting Systems. Retrieved January 25, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ Hand in old devices. Company's own information register for old devices. Electrocycling GmbH, accessed on January 24, 2018 .
  5. ↑ reuse. Short, company-specific description. Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  6. ^ Harald Meier, Kurt Neumann: Bad Harzburg. Chronicle of a city. P. 681.
  7. ^ Electrocycling GmbH - The company. Self-description of the company. 2011, accessed January 23, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Plant construction - Electrocycling GmbH. (No longer available online.) BN Umwelt GmbH, formerly in the original ; accessed on January 23, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bn-umwelt.de  
  9. ↑ Partial renovation of the former zinc works in Harlingerode. In: http://projektatlas.europa-fuer-niedersachsen.de . Retrieved March 3, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Planned expansion of the Electrocycling GmbH. In: http://www.electrocycling.de/ . Retrieved November 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Fire in recycling company: Temporary outbreaks of toxic gases feared ( memento of October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on goslarsche.de, accessed on October 4, 2013.
  12. ↑ Major fire in Harlingerode: Tons of electronic waste in flames on regionalgoslar.de , written and accessed on July 11, 2017.
  13. ↑ Hendrick Roß: Major fire at electrocycling: Further information . In: Goslarsche Zeitung . July 12, 2017 ( goslarsche.de ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 36 "  N , 10 ° 30 ′ 7"  E