Our history
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Milestones that shape and inspire us.
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knew grandfather Edelhoff, who as a city employee saw the dirty streets of Iserlohn every day. With a lot of courage and entrepreneurial spirit, he bought the sweeper from the city and developed a better roller to make his town cleaner. It was the founding of the first private waste management company in Germany - and just the beginning of a Europe-wide success story. With his systematic approach and innovative ideas, Gustav Edelhoff became the pioneer of an entire industry. As the inventor of the modern trash can, he shaped the way we still dispose of our waste today. His standards and pioneering spirit are still at the core of LOBBE and our vision today:
Gustav Dieter Edelhoff
Milestones Edelhoff
1952
Gustav Edelhoff founds EDELHOFF Städtereinigung.
Gustav Dieter Edelhoff joins his father's business.
01.04.1960
16.10.1961
On the initiative of Gustav Edelhoff, 41 private waste management companies found the "Verband privater Städtereiniger" (VPS e.V.) in Offenbach, the forerunner of today's BDE.
After two years of development and testing, the MGB240 is introduced in Letmathe/Iserlohn and remains the standard for waste collection worldwide to this day.
1972
13.05.1986
VEW acquires a 51% majority shareholding in EDELHOFF AG.
April 1993
Milestones Lobbe
1993
Official entry of the Edelhoff family into LOBBE.
LOBBE begins development of the prototype vertical milling machine, which can already consolidate 1,000t of material per day.
1996
Heike Vangerow and Gustav Edelhoff take over the management of LOBBE Holding.
In September, takeover of RWE Umwelt Westfalen (formerly EDELHOFF) and renaming as LOBBE Entsorgung.
2005
2005
In August, takeover of the company Kluge Umweltschutz GmbH & Co. KG in Duisburg.
In January takeover MIDI industrial cleaning.
2006
Strategic realignment of the LOBBE Group into the two core areas of Waste Management and Industrial Services.
Introduction of the "Remote Lance Worker" (RLW) for safe cleaning work with high-pressure water.
2013
January 2015
Commissioning of the new sorting plant in Sümmern/Iserlohn, at that time Europe's most modern plant of its kind.
Completion of the refurbishment work at the Völklingen Ironworks World Cultural Heritage Site.
2016
January 2018
Commissioning of the MEILO sorting plant near Gernsheim in cooperation with Meinhardt Städtereinigung.
Introduction of the "Robotized Lance Frame" (RLF) for tube bundle cleaning in heat exchangers.
2019
2020
Takeover of the family business Stratmann Städtereinigung.
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