Trienekens AG

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The Trienekens AG was a 1923 company, established at the end of the 20th century the largest waste management companies rose in Germany. In 2002, the domestic business of Trienekens AG was completely absorbed by the RWE Group. Since then, Trienekens GmbH has continued foreign business activities.

Company history

In 1923 Mathias Trienekens founded the "hay and straw wholesaler M. Trienekens" in Süchteln (now part of Viersen ). He sold the hay to farmers as animal feed, and the straw to paper mills as raw material for making cardboard. The trade in hay and straw continued until the early 1970s, although paper manufacturers increasingly switched to waste paper as a raw material.

As early as 1954, Trienekens had set up waste disposal activities in parallel. Since then, the first garbage truck has collected the household waste from around 3,000 households at the local level. In the course of the 1960s, the demand for waste disposal services increased. At the same time, paper manufacturers are increasingly using waste paper as a raw material and asking less and less straw. In 1971 the turnover from the Trienekens waste disposal business exceeded that from the sale of hay and straw for the first time. Shortly thereafter, the company traded as “M. Trienekens town cleaning Viersen ”.

In 1988 the turnover was 62 million euros and the number of employees 580. In that year the name was changed to Trienekens Entsorgung GmbH . A year later, Hellmut Trienekens and RWE Disposal AG jointly founded R + T Disposal GmbH, with Hellmut Trienekens holding 49 percent of the shares. At the same time, RWE Disposal AG took over 49 percent of Trienekens Disposal GmbH. In order not to compete with each other, both companies then concentrated their respective business on different areas.

In 1998 the companies, which had been separated since 1989, were merged: Trienekens Disposal GmbH and R + T Disposal GmbH merged to form Trienekens AG. From then on, their shares were divided equally between RWE and Trienekens. At the time of the merger, the combined annual turnover was 442 million euros. At the turn of the millennium, Trienekens AG was the largest waste disposal company in Germany. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the company owned around 25 percent of the municipal incineration contingents.

In 2002, RWE Umwelt AG - the successor to RWE Disposal AG since 1997 - took over the remaining 50 percent of Trienekens AG. RWE did not continue the name Trienekens because of Trienekens' bad image . Trienekens AG hit the headlines in 2001 because of a bribe scandal, the Cologne donation affair . At that time, it employed almost 8,800 people with all around 250 direct and indirect holdings and generated over one billion euros in annual sales. Two years later, RWE sold RWE Umwelt AG to Rethmann AG & Co. KG. In 2005, Trienekens' former domestic business finally went to SWK Stadtwerke Krefeld AG and has since been operating as EGN Entsorgungsgesellschaft Niederrhein mbh .

Despite the end of Trienekens AG in 2002, the company name Trienekens lives on. When RWE became the full owner of Trienekens AG in 2002, this related to its domestic activities. Business activities abroad that were part of Trienekens at the time were transferred to Trienekens GmbH. Their headquarters are also in Viersen. This company currently has its own companies in Spain and Malaysia. They are also active in the waste management industry.

Special services

Trienekens was often considered a technological pioneer. In 1972 the company opened the first household waste processing plant in North Rhine-Westphalia in Neuss . In 1981 the first raw material recovery plant in Germany followed, also in Neuss. In 1987, another raw material recovery plant was built in the Haus Forst landfill in Kerpen . A combined heat and power plant connected to it converted landfill gas directly into electricity and heat. In 1995, a facility for mechanical-biological residual waste treatment was built at the Horm landfill near Düren, which later served as a model throughout the country. Further innovations included the use of optoelectronic separation processes for glass waste, the development of a walkable inclined seepage water shaft in landfill construction, the conditioning of energetically recoverable waste for use as substitute fuel in power plants or in the cement industry, as well as the use of special processes for processing waste paper qualities.

literature

  • Stories from 75 years, Trienekens 1923–1998 , Viersen, 1998
  • White paper on the entrepreneurial, societal and social commitment of the medium-sized entrepreneur Hellmut Trienekens , Viersen, 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stories from 75 years, Trienekens 1923–1998, Viersen, 1998
  2. ↑ History EGN Entsorgungsgesellschaft Niederrhein mbH, accessed on December 31, 2017
  3. ^ White paper on the entrepreneurial, societal and social commitment of the medium-sized entrepreneur Hellmut Trienekens, Viersen, 2004
  4. ↑ The sudden end of a garbage Barons Manager Magazin of 12 June 2002
  5. ↑ Chronicle 1990-1999 RWE AG, accessed on December 31, 2017
  6. ↑ What is Trienekens doing today? Kölnische Rundschau, September 17, 2004
  7. ↑ Frank Saliger: Protection of the GmbH's internal formation of will through infidelity criminal law? In: Manfred Heinrich (Ed.): Criminal Law as Scientia Universalis. Walter de Gruyter, 2011, ISBN 3-1102-4010-6 , pp. 1055-1072.
  8. ↑ Eva-Maria Thoms: bribery: The man, the garbage, the corruption . In: The time . February 17, 2005, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed March 10, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Sebastian Wolf: [Corruption, Anti-Corruption Policy and Public Administration], Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 3-6580-4108-0 , pp. 86–89.
  10. ↑ : RWE sells environmental group - Rethmann becomes the largest waste disposal company. Retrieved March 10, 2019 .