Waste containers made from plastic waste

Michael Wieczorek, Managing Director Lobbe Entsorgung West GmbH & Co KG, in an interview: "A credo for more circular and recycling economy" The idea is not only charming, but also resource-saving: Lobbe plans to produce and use waste containers from plastic waste together with a partner. A project that is currently in the test phase and has enormous potential. How it [...]

Hot as hell

Hellishly hot shutdown work by Lobbe during HKM's ongoing operations I follow the operations manager Guido Schwarz to Lobbe's site at HKM and involuntarily have to stop. I feel as if I have landed at the mouth of hell: Iron heated to over 1,400 degrees is just being poured out of a gigantic container called a ladle behind two fireproof [...]

Against the silver cat

Lobbe successfully uses gentle combination process for industrial cleaning at BASF Ludwigshafen Almost inaudibly, Lobbe's own construction with three custom-made pipes on a frame made of profiles moves a few centimetres to the right. Then the rotating pipes sink into the openings of a heat exchanger, it steams and hisses, water mist obstructs the view and millimetre-sized grains of the [...]

Half-timbering and Gothic

Lobbe removes faulty floor on the Regensburg Cathedral grounds "The bishop asked us to pause with the suction work for mass," says Operations Manager Steffen Müller, Lobbe Industrieservice Süd. This is because Lobbe's suction truck is located on the small square between one of Germany's most important Gothic cathedrals and the adjacent building. Next to Cologne Cathedral, the cathedral symbolises [...]

Flood disaster in NRW

Big challenge for Lobbe on land and on water On 14 July, dark clouds gather in the sky and the German Weather Service issues a storm warning. In the night of 15 July, the first consequences of the heavy rainfall become visible. In Hagen and Iserlohn, streets become raging rivers, the masses of water wash out houses, sweep away cars [...]

Waste wood part 2: Recycling according to new rules

Waste wood processing according to today's standards The currently valid Waste Wood Ordinance is being revised and amended. Politicians see the need for an amendment because the previous ordinance, which has been in force since 2002, no longer meets the current requirements for the circular economy. The main focus of the changes is to put more untreated wood of the waste wood class A1 back into [...]

Resource conservation through circular economy

Lobbe produces high-quality substitute fuels in Paderborn The delivery hall is bustling every day: Numerous disposal vehicles deliver their household, commercial, and mixed construction waste, which is sorted at PEG (Pader Entsorgung GmbH) in an elaborate process and converted into high-quality substitute fuels especially for the cement industry. It is one of a few plants in Germany that produces substitute fuels from [...]

Versatile

Digital process optimisation at Lobbe In January 2021, the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) published the results of its survey "Digitalisation with challenges". Around 3,500 companies took part. In their self-assessment of the degree of digitalisation, the companies only ranked themselves on average with a grade of just 2.9 on the usual scale of one to six. Above all [...]

Mud on the cheek

Lobbe desludges ponds in Bad Homburg "We can't find a buyer for the sludge because it's too clean," says Udo Mai, project manager for the renaturation of two ponds in Bad Homburg. The site of the Werner Reimers Foundation is located directly behind the spa gardens and is a little gem of nature: at the foot of the gently sloping hill is a stream, [...]