ALBA Group – The Recycling Company
Today, there’s a lot more to waste than being garbage. These days, it is an important source for secondary raw materials which are needed in manufacturing new products. The process of collecting, recovering, refining, and marketing of these secondary raw materials is defined as “urban mining”.
The business model of the ALBA Group is based on the following principles: Waste materials serve as valuable recyclables for manufacturing, and at the same time, they do not put a strain on the supply of natural primary resources. As a recycling company, the ALBA Group is both an environmental services company and a supplier of raw materials.
ALBA Group has with its two brands – ALBA and Interseroh – about 200 subsidiaries and equity holdings within Germany and other European countries, the U.S. and Asia. With an annual turnover of approx. 3 billion Euros and about 9,000 employees ALBA Group is one of the leading recycling and environmental services companies as well as raw material providers worldwide.
We mareket approx. 8 million tonnes of raw materials each year. Moreover, ALBA Group covers the whole range of environmental services: starting with advice about waste management issues to the licensing of packaging on the so-called dual system market, the provision of reliable recycling solutions and state-of-the-art sorting technology to innovate logistics and product development
The ALBA Group – your specialist for …
Waste Avoidance
We work out optimised logistics concepts and reusable pooling systems for the whole of Europe customized to your specific requirements.
Electrical and Electronic Scrap
With its own plants the ALBA Group is among the largest certified recyclers of waste electrical and electronic equipment in Germany.
Waste Management
We manage all types of waste and take full responsibility for collection, transport and environment-friendly disposal.
Raw Materials Trading
We supply recycled paper, secondary plastics, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals in all qualities, also in large quantities.
Product Recycling
We organise custom-tailored collection systems for effective recycling.
Hazardous Waste Management
The ALBA Group offers a full environment-friendly service from fully compliant disposal to advanced problem solving.
Steel and Metal Recycling
Top 3 in Germany, Top 5 in Europe – we are among the best in Germany in this segment as well. In Germany alone, we have over 90 sites with their own shredders, shearing machines and baling presses.
Packaging Take-Back System
We are your specialist for packaging returns, whether they be sales or transport packaging, single-use deposit containers or paper sacks, our packaging management is comprehensive.
Innovations
We develop processes with economic and ecological value added. Our process for manufacturing ready for production secondary raw materials made from recycled resources was awarded with the Special Sustainability Award from the Bundesverband Deutscher Heimwerker-, Bau- und Gartenfachmärkte e.V. in 2012.
Facility Solutions
With our facility management services we offer you a full service from one source: efficient, systematic, process-driven.
The ALBA Group: Harmony between economics and ecology
In the future, recycling and waste management will undergo a paradigm shift away from solid waste and towards raw material. Whether by means of recycling packaging or the reclaiming materials from used products, value creation can succeed only if high-value raw materials are produced and placed on the global market using comprehensive organisation and targeted quality management.
Through its activities, ALBA Group creates economically viable substance cycles to provide sustainable alternatives to industry, trade and retail, waste management providers and consumers, thus serving the environment in the process.
