Envio

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Envio

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legal form Corporation
founding 2004
Seat Hamburg , Germany
management
  • Dirk Neupert, CEO
Number of employees 54 (December 2009)
sales 17.66 million euros (2009)
Branch Environmental service provider
Website www.envio-group.de

The Envio AG is a company that, among other things on the disposal of PCB -containing transformers as well as on marketing those obtained by recycling raw materials had specialized. In spring 2010 it became public that the company was apparently responsible for the massive poisoning of several employees with PCBs and the contamination of the company premises and the surrounding areas due to improper handling of the toxins. The company premises are located in the port of Dortmund and the decontamination should be completed by the end of 2018.

history

In 2004, a management buy-out from the ABB Group resulted in the Envio Group, which was converted into a stock corporation in 2007. On September 24, 2007, the company went public and was included in the Entry Standard of Deutsche Börse .

In May 2010, operations in Dortmund were closed by the Arnsberg district government because it was suspected of being the main cause of increased PCB contamination in the surrounding areas. As a result of an anonymous tip-off, the district government had sweeping samples carried out on April 28, 2010, which found that the permissible PCB concentration was exceeded 150 times.

In July 2010, the company's biogas division was renamed Bebra Biogas GmbH. The company is now called Aleia Holding AG and is listed on the Hamburg Stock Exchange. The parent company Envio AG also moved its headquarters from Dortmund to Hamburg. Parts of the group, namely Envio Recycling-GmbH & Co. KG, which is responsible for the disposal of devices containing PCBs, and Envio Germany Geschäftsführungs-GmbH, went bankrupt in October 2010 . With regard to the renaming of the company's biogas division, the head of the Bonn investment house Murphy & Spitz suspected that parts of the AG could be “gutted” before the AG could benefit the victims of the poison scandal in insolvency proceedings.

Poison scandal

Due to the increased raw material prices of the metals used in the transformers, it had become lucrative to process aggregates that had already been stored in the Herfa-Neurode underground landfill for material recovery. To this end, Envio operated an approved cleaning process, with which PCB-contaminated transformer parts were rinsed with tetrachlorethylene . The permit stipulated that only cleaned or lightly contaminated transformer parts were allowed to leave the black area. Fractions containing PCBs should be disposed of properly. Several inspections in spring 2010 showed that the permit requirements had been violated on a massive scale.

The poison concentrations measured on the company premises exceeded the permissible values ​​in some cases drastically. The poison scandal - it was uncovered by the daily newspaper Westfälische Rundschau - is the nationwide largest PCB catastrophe of the last decades. The health of the relatives of the employees is also at risk.

The first indications of increased PCB contamination in the vicinity of the Dortmund harbor were already there in 2006, when the evaluations of bioindicators provided corresponding indications. In the bio-indicator kale at the measuring station in Eving , contrary to the tendency of the slight decrease, increasing PCB concentrations were found. After the first blood values ​​of affected employees of Envio AG with an increase in PCB values ​​of up to 25,000 times were available at the end of June 2010, the Arnsberg district government filed a criminal complaint against the company for "negligent or willful bodily harm ". Charges were brought against the managing director Dirk Neupert, a former operations manager, an immission control officer and a former workshop master. The process began in May 2012. At the beginning of the process, Neupert's defense attorney stated that the increased PCB exposure could be explained “plausibly with unhealthy lifestyle factors” of the employees concerned. However, the former employees vehemently contradicted this version. A former shift supervisor testified at the beginning of March 2013 that the company had not kept up with the number of orders and that the contaminated material was often only cleaned quickly, without the employees being sure afterwards whether they were clean. In addition, contaminated material was hidden in "night and fog operations" from controls by authorities or the fire brigade. Other witnesses also reported during the trial of an extremely lax approach to safety regulations at Envio AG.

The process was in April 2017 against payment of a cash edition set of a total of 80 010 € to 21 plaintiffs (3810 € per person affected) because the allegations of assault in the process could not be substantiated; With regard to violations of environmental regulations, the judge found that compared to the amount of PCB that would have been released had all the regulations been observed, the actual amount released was negligible. The WDR reported that those affected suffered from health problems and incapacity for work due to irreversibly high levels of PCB exposure , but that they could not claim early retirement .

Work to remove the PCB contamination on the Envio site was repeatedly delayed. Even in 2015 that warned State Agency for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection before eating mounted near the Envio site kale because it loaded PCB by its jagged leaves dust in the environment to a greater extent micrograph than other vegetables . The head of the district government in Arnsberg stated that the decontamination , which included the demolition of halls and the milling of asphalt, should be completed by the end of 2018. This work had to be carried out with a high level of safety in order to prevent further spread of the toxin in the area. Due to bankruptcy , Envio Recycling GmbH was exempted from assuming the costs of around 7.5 million euros for the cleaning work, which were ultimately borne by the district government. The city ​​of Dortmund acquired the company premises from Envio's bankruptcy portfolio.

Film documentaries

  • Kale, Poisons and Businesses - The Envio Company Scandal. In: WDR . Aired on November 7, 2011 in the series Die Story.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Envio AG: Group annual financial statements 2009. (PDF; 458 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 11, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.envio-group.com
  2. ↑ Gregor Beushausen: The renovation of the Envio site at the Dortmund harbor should be completed in December. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ The PCB-contaminated Envio area in the Dortmund harbor renovated. December 21, 2018, accessed November 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ District government Arnsberg: Inquiry Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / envio.derwesten.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: DerWesten . May 12, 2010
  5. ^ A b Klaus Brandt: New name, old boss: Envio Biogas is called Bebra . In: DerWesten . July 7, 2010
  6. ↑ Klaus Brandt: Parts of the poison company Envio are insolvent . In: DerWesten . October 26, 2010
  7. ↑ a b c d e Peter Bruckmann, Ernst Hiester, Marcel Klees, Ludwig Radermacher: The environmental pollution caused by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in the Dortmund harbor. In: Hazardous substances - cleanliness. Air . 71, No. 4, 2011, ISSN  0949-8036 , pp. 151-158.
  8. ↑ Klaus Brandt: Shocking poison values ​​- Envio completely closed . In: DerWesten . May 20, 2010
  9. ↑ Klaus Brandt: Envio employees extremely contaminated with PCBs . In: DerWesten . June 26, 2010
  10. ↑ Andreas Wyputta: environmental scandal in Dortmund: The poisoned people . In: the daily newspaper . August 31, 2011
  11. ↑ a b Ludwig Radermacher, Peter Altenbeck, Martin Kraft, Thomas Delschen, Ernst Hiester: Determination of PCB sources in the Dortmund harbor by means of exposure of plant bio-indicators. In: Hazardous substances - cleanliness. Air. 71, No. 4, 2011, ISSN  0949-8036 , pp. 159-164.
  12. ↑ Jonas Müller-Töwe: Envio poison scandal: PCB blood values ​​increased by 25,000 times . In: Ruhr news . June 26, 2010
  13. ^ Envio scandal: District government reports . In: Ruhr news . June 28, 2010
  14. ↑ Public prosecutor's office brings charges in the Envio case . In: DerWesten . June 24, 2011
  15. ↑ PCB scandal in Dortmund: Envio manager in court . In: Spiegel Online . May 9, 2012
  16. ↑ Process of PCB scandal: Ex-Envio boss rejects allegations . In: Spiegel Online . May 9, 2012
  17. ↑ Envio witness: poison scrap hidden in the transformer . In: RuhrNachrichten.de . March 14, 2013
  18. ↑ Envio production manager raises serious allegations . In: RuhrNachrichten.de . January 15, 2013
  19. ↑ http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/staedte/dortmund/44147-Nordstadt~/Umwelt-Skandal-im-Dortmunder-Hafen-PCB-Prozess-Streit-um-neues-Envio-Gutachten;art930,3112801
  20. ↑ Oliver Volmerich, Christin Mols, Kevin Kisker: 7 years later: How are those affected by Envio? Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  21. ↑ WORLD: Proceedings against Envio manager in the "PCB scandal" discontinued . April 4, 2017 ( welt.de [accessed November 12, 2019]).
  22. ↑ Proceedings-against-Envio-Manager-discontinued . In: Welt.de . 4th April 2017
  23. ↑ The PCB-contaminated Envio area in the Dortmund harbor renovated. December 21, 2018, accessed November 12, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Martin von Braunschweig: Dispute over Envio renovation: City of Dortmund successfully sued the district government. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Dennis Werner: After the PCB scandal - Environment Agency recommends no more than two servings of kale. July 17, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2019 (German).
  26. ↑ Gregor Beushausen: The renovation of the Envio site at the Dortmund harbor should be completed in December. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  27. ↑ The PCB-contaminated Envio area in the Dortmund harbor renovated. December 21, 2018, accessed November 12, 2019 .
  28. ↑ Dortmund's Envio site will be cleared from December. October 6, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2019 (German).
  29. ↑ Gregor Beushausen: The renovation of the Envio site at the Dortmund harbor should be completed in December. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .

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