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 [...]

Resource conservation through circular economy

Lobbe services

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 [...]

Between pollutant clean-up, hazard prevention and monument protection

Völklingen Ironworks Lobbe

"We now have a purity here that you probably don't even have in your living room." The Völklingen Ironworks stands for pioneering spirit, for the heyday of iron production. The ironworks was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 with the aim of preserving the imposing industrial monument in its entirety, authentically conserving the splendour of yesteryear for future generations. [...]