Disposal truck as data collector

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Lobbe, the Iserlohn-based environmental and waste disposal company, will be supporting its municipal and local authority customers on the road to digitization in the future.

Noble raw materials

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Recycling non-ferrous metals protects important resources. Metal recycling has a long tradition at Lobbe. At many of the Group's sites, metals are prepared for further processing. In Braunsbedra, Lobbe operates a dry processing plant for non-ferrous metals. Customers come from all over Europe. They mainly supply nonferrous metals from bottom ash and boiler ash for processing. In the plant, the metals are first [...]

Digital transformation

Digital transformation

Optimized processes and transparent service. Many internal work processes are optimized, from employee time recording to deployment documentation. Instead of using digital cameras and sending e-mails, site managers and foremen on Kluge renovation projects now communicate via app. The digital construction file is accessible to all involved employees of Kluge Sanierung and thus also brings more [...]

Back into the cycle

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From waste to raw material" is how the NRW Ministry of the Environment puts it. What is meant is the collection, sorting and recycling of plastic waste. Germany's and Europe's political goal is to use considerably more recycled materials in the production of new plastic products. But this is not so easy, because the quality of the recycled plastic from [...]

Sustainable through automation

Sustainability through automation

Lobbe Industrieservice relies on the highest possible standards Work in industrial services often takes place in sensitive work areas. Here, the protection of employees through the highest level of occupational safety is paramount. "We do not reduce sustainability to climate protection alone; other factors such as working conditions that focus on the health and safety of employees are also [...]

Plastics recycling

Plastics recycling

The mattress, the smartphone or the light switch - nothing would work without plastic. Plastic is often hidden in areas of life that no one thinks about for long, that are taken for granted in civilisation. The visible signs of our consumer society are the darker sides: Threatening rubbish carpets in the oceans, microplastics in the soil, littered landscapes... Germany sets an example against [...]

Sustainability in focus

Sustainability at Lobbe

Sustainable Development Goals When many people think of sustainability, they think primarily of climate neutrality. Besides the carbon footprint, which should be as neutral as possible, there are 16 other criteria. With: human health, prosperity, justice, education, gender equality, decent work, economic growth, industry, innovation, life on land and under water are just a few mentioned. These selected examples show that [...]

Schwarze Pumpe: Structural change in the soil too

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Half-time in the soil remediation at the former Spremberg gas combine. It was the largest energy combine in the former GDR. Until the 1990s, briquette factories, electricity and steam generation, coking plants and town gas production were located on the Schwarze Pumpe site. Up to 125,000 tonnes of raw lignite per day were delivered from the surrounding opencast mines, processed and around 85 per cent of the total town gas [...]

100,000 tonnes of soil prepared

Final show of strength for a clean landfill

Last show of strength for a clean landfill 100,000 tonnes of soil processed In Lusatia, a structurally weak region, around 8,000 jobs are directly linked to lignite, as well as a further 16,000 jobs with suppliers. There are always discussions about "pro" and "contra" lignite. This was also the case in Proschim, a small town on the edge of the Welzow-Süd open-cast lignite mine. There was agreement among the [...]