GEKA

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Society for the disposal of chemical warfare agents and old armaments mbH (GEKA mbH)
legal form GmbH
founding 1997
Seat Muenster
management
  • Andreas Krüger, managing director
  • Lutz Wenzel, chairman of the supervisory board
Number of employees 137 (December 31, 2013)
sales 15.2 million euros (2013)
Branch Waste management
Website www.geka-munster.de
Stand 2013

The Society for the Disposal of Chemical Warfare Agents and Old Armaments Ltd ( GEKA ) is a federally owned company within the scope of the Federal Ministry of Defense .

Companies

The object of the company is the disposal of chemical warfare agents and soil contaminated by old armaments. The main client is its sole shareholder, the Federal Republic of Germany . It also offers its disposal services to the federal states and the private sector within the framework of free capacities. GEKA is the only company in Germany that is permitted to treat chemical ammunition with the aim of destruction.

The company was founded in 1997 to dispose of the remains of both world wars. It operates three incineration plants, a soil washing plant as well as dismantling plants for conventional and chemical ammunition up to two tons of TNT equivalent on 67 hectares of business premises adjacent to the Munster-Nord military training area .

At the request of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons , Germany has agreed to destroy residues from Syrian chemical weapons ( civil war in Syria ) in Germany. It is a so-called hydrolyzate , which is created in the course of the irreversible neutralization of chemical warfare agents and is similar to industrial waste. 340 t of hydrolyzate and 30 t of other contaminated waste were destroyed at GEKA from September 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. GEKA website. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  2. Electronic Federal Gazette.
  3. ^ Bundeswehr destroys parts of Syrian chemical weapons . Time online. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  4. Munster destroys the remains of Syrian weapons. ( Memento from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) NDR. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
  5. Carolin George: Munster burns Syria's mustard gas in: Die Welt , October 24, 2014 [1]