Berlin/Neuss, 26. August 2014. Rieck Entsorgungs-Logistik has two good reasons to celebrate: the company celebrated its 20th anniversary and inaugurated its new waste and waste paper treatment plant. Managing Director Stefan Rieck hosted the official celebration on August 22.
Dr. Dieter Porschen, Managing Director of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Mittlerer Niederrhein/Krefeld, and Eric Rehbock, Managing Director of the Federal Association for Secondary Raw Materials and Waste Management (BVSE), attended as guests of honor. In their speeches, they highlighted the company’s successful history and emphasized how important waste disposal is for the responsible use of the environment and resources.
“The pressing plant completes our waste disposal range,” explains Stefan Rieck. “We not only collect residual materials and send them for professional recycling, but also take on part of the recycling process ourselves – and thus close the material cycle.” The paper, film and plastic bales produced in the plant are coveted raw materials that are used in paper mills and by plastics processors worldwide.
15 new employees, six million euros
The plant is currently running at full capacity in single-shift operation, with 15 new employees hired for this purpose. If demand continues to rise, two-shift operation is planned – six more employees would then be added. Rieck invested a total of almost six million euros in the new facility: 8,000 square meters of land, 3,000 square meters of new hall construction, a channel baling press, two wheel loaders and a bale stacker. When operations started in mid-June, 500 tons of paper and plastic waste were already being pressed into unmixed bales. The baler can process up to 90 truckloads of recyclable materials every day.
20 years of environmentally friendly processes
The new pressing plant is another milestone in the company’s 20-year history: the Rieck Logistics Group opened a site in Mülheim a. d. Ruhr in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1960. In 1994, Stefan Rieck expanded the forwarding services to include waste disposal logistics. Just five years later, Rieck Entsorgungs-Logistik was founded.
In the years that followed, Rieck Entsorgungs-Logistik expanded in Neuss and invested in larger office, warehouse and open-air spaces. It currently employs 54 people and now manages 20,000 square meters of warehouse and logistics space. The tasks range from demolition and safe disposal to the temporary storage of packaging waste and hazardous waste. The company has 44 special vehicles, around 2,000 containers and 2,000 emptying bins at its disposal.
Rieck Entsorgungs-Logistik is certified as a specialist waste management company in accordance with §§ 56, 57 KrWG, EfbV for the activities of collecting, transporting, storing, handling, trading and brokering and operates a hazardous waste interim storage facility approved in accordance with the Federal Immission Control Act. In addition, it has the expertise to carry out demolition, renovation and maintenance work on asbestos cement products (acquisition of expertise in accordance with No. 2.7 of TRGS 519, Annex 4).
