Tönsmeier

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Tönsmeier group of companies

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1927
resolution 2018
Reason for dissolution Sale to the Schwarz Group
Seat Porta Westfalica
management Johannes-Jürgen Albus (Chairman of the Supervisory Board ), Jürgen Tönsmeier and Matthias Störmer
Number of employees over 3500 (2016)
sales 473 million euros (2015)
Branch Waste management recycling
Website www.toensmeier.de

The Tönsmeier group was a German company of the waste management industry , which within the waste management in the areas of waste management , recycling and recovery was active. The group's head office was located in the East Westphalian town of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district . The company was founded in 1927 and run as a family business in the third generation until it was managed by the Schwarz Group in 2018was acquired. According to its own information, the company employed over 3000 people at its locations in Germany, the Netherlands and Poland in 2017.

history

Tönsmeier was the waste disposal company for the Minden district for 59 years and rose from a small forwarding company to become the fifth largest waste disposal company in Germany.

In 1927, Karl Tönsmeier founded a "rail freight company" in Porta Westfalica, which transported goods from the train station to the surrounding shops. In 1958, the company received the order for dust-free rubbish collection in the Hausberge department . This meant the removal in standardized rubbish bins that were emptied into trucks . In the 1970s, Tönsmeier rose to become a waste disposal company in the old district of Minden and continued to grow in the period that followed. In 1971 industrial and commercial waste disposal was added, followed by glass and paper recycling in 1973. The original site became too narrow, a new location was developed in the early 1970s in Lerbeck between Bahn and Weser on the property of a former glass factory. In the 1990s, the company opened its first locations in the new federal states and did pioneering work for the newly created dual system in Germany . In 1996 the first branch in Poland went into operation.

The range of services was gradually expanded. Until 2018, the company operating as the Tönsmeier Group offered waste management services at around seventy locations in Europe.

In 2010 Jürgen Tönsmeier, who led the family company in the third generation as managing partner , moved to the head of the newly created supervisory board .

At the beginning of February 2012, the company Städtereinigung Holtmeyer in Georgsmarienhütte was taken over, and Lengeder Entsorgungs GmbH (LEG) in Lengede on January 1, 2016 .

In 2017 the Tönsmeier Group restructured its corporate management. In 2018, Tönsmeier was the fifth largest waste disposal service provider in Germany.

With retroactive effect to the beginning of the year, Tönsmeier was taken over by GreenCycle , a subsidiary of the Schwarz Group (Lidl, Kaufland), in July 2018 . In February 2019, the new owner announced a name change: Since then, the Schwarz Group has continued its environmental activities under the Prezero company , and the Tönsmeier company , which was only used as a brand, disappeared.

Shortly after the Tönsmeier Group was sold, the old managers left the company and the management was reassigned. Long-time management spokesman Bernd Ranneberg and commercial director Matthias Störmer terminated their contracts in October 2018.

Performance profile

The Tönsmeier Group worked for municipal clients, private customers, the dual system and customers from industry and commerce. The collected recyclable materials and waste were processed in around 30 sorting and recycling plants and made available to the industry as secondary raw materials . More than 1100 vehicles were used to collect and transport waste and recyclable materials. With the Bernburg substitute fuel cogeneration plant , the company had also had waste incineration capacities since 2010 .

The regional focus of the Tönsmeier Group in Germany was the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Hesse, Saxony-Anhalt and Bavaria.

Cooperations

Since 2003 Tönsmeier has been cooperating with the municipal high school in Petershagen .

Damage events

On July 1, 2011, there was a fire in the recycling warehouse at the Porta Westfalica site, which caused extensive environmental damage in the area. Large black clouds stood over the Porta Westfalica , the population was asked to close the windows. The district of Minden-Lübbecke classified the fire as a major damage event .

On October 3, 2013, the sorting hall for the light packaging and the storage hall for the bales of the pressed waste fractions burned at the Westerfeldstrasse location in the Detmold industrial area. There was heavy smoke development, as a result of which the district of Lippe recommended not eating fruit and vegetables growing above ground from your own garden.

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The company has been active in Poland since 1996. In July 2011, a waste sorting plant was put into operation in the western Polish city of Czempiń .

In May 2010, Tönsmeier Kunststoffe determined the product-related CO 2 footprint for PVC recyclates.

literature

Web links

Commons : Tönsmeier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of December 10, 2013 , accessed on February 9, 2017
  2. ^ Commercial register dated March 6, 2017
  3. ↑ Data and figures from the company's website , accessed on February 10, 2017
  4. ↑ Consolidated financial statements 2015 Karl Tönsmeier Entsorgungswirtschaft GmbH & Co. KG and Tönsmeierdienstleistungen GmbH & Co. KG , accessed on March 15, 2017
  5. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Tönsmeier started dust-free rubbish collection in Hausberge 60 years ago , accessed on March 16, 2021
  6. ↑ LVP SORTING SYSTEM, PORTA WESTFALICA. Accessed December 23, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Tönsmeier remains on course for expansion. At www.mt-online.de , accessed on March 5, 2012
  8. ↑ Porta Westfalica / Hannover / Lengede: Tönsmeier takes over Lengeder Entsorgungsgesellschaft , press release of December 23, 2015, accessed on January 12, 2016
  9. ↑ [1] accessed on February 10, 2017
  10. ↑ bvse - GreenCycle takes over Tönsmeier. Accessed December 23, 2020 (German).
  11. ↑ Retail giant buys Tönsmeier Group. In: Mindener Tageblatt of July 2, 2018
  12. ↑ The Tönsmeier brand disappears. In: NW of January 18, 2019
  13. ↑ Managing directors leave Tönsmeier. In: Schaumburger Nachrichten of October 3, 2018 (accessed on February 28, 2021)
  14. ↑ Tönsmeier company as a place of learning. on the school homepage, accessed on February 28, 2021
  15. ↑ Fire at Tönsmeier waste disposal company in Hausberge. In: Mindener Tageblatt from July 1, 2011 (accessed July 1, 2011)
  16. ^ WDR regional news. In: WDR 2, July 1, 2011, 2.30 p.m.
  17. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt: Detmold: Major fire at Tönsmeier ( Memento from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Tönsmeier expands in Poland. In: Mindener Tageblatt of July 15, 2011 (accessed July 20, 2011)
  19. ↑ Tönsmeier plastics, Plasticker, AgPU e. V. of May 4, 2010 , accessed on October 14, 2013

Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '0.4 "  N , 8 ° 55' 24.7"  E