Jakob Becker GmbH & Co. KG

The Jakob Becker Group is one of the largest and most successful waste disposal companies in Germany. Since the company was founded 120 years ago, the traditional family business has developed into a multi-regional, multi-functional recycling company whose services go far beyond collecting rubbish.

Future-oriented waste disposal and recycling specialist

The Jakob Becker Group has been one of the pioneers in the waste management industry since it was founded in 1898. We offer you professional and innovative services in the areas of disposal, recycling, logistics, energy generation and environmental protection.

With more than 750 mostly special vehicles and numerous processing and recycling systems, we are equipped for all your tasks with the most varied of requirements.

The waste disposal industry is constantly developing. In order to actively shape the future, we are constantly developing innovative ideas that become standards on the market and make us pioneers.

Our qualified employees are the basis for the performance of our 58 German specialist companies. Over 2,000 people from a wide variety of professions give their best every day to implement tailor-made concepts for you. As a family business, training and further education as well as the qualifications of our employees are particularly important to us.

PHILOSOPHY

High environmental standards and technical innovations have completely redefined the field of waste disposal in the past few decades. And development is progressing rapidly. Becker sees the future as an opportunity and is constantly creating new ideas that sometimes establish themselves as the standard in the industry. The approximately 2,000 employees from a wide variety of professions are optimally networked with one another at the 53 locations and are therefore able to develop and offer new concepts across all services.

Training, further education and the ongoing qualification of employees are not only a requirement of the constantly new guidelines, but have always been Becker's answer to the dynamics of the market. Becker lives up to its role as a responsible family company as well as as an employer, which often plays a pioneering role in the market.

The proud company history is both an incentive and an obligation. The Becker team relies on this strength. Only in this way is it possible to generate new, innovative ideas every day and to develop tailor-made and efficient concepts for customers with the most varied of requirements.

Concepts that are committed to the future.

HISTORY

It all started with a clamp

Times were different. The automobile had only recently been invented, the last
German emperor had just ascended his throne when a new era was heralded in Kaiserslautern. After a central water supply and sewer system had already been implemented, the city introduced the removal of household waste and compulsory street cleaning in 1898. The two haulage contractors and economists Jakob Becker and Ludwig Horneff were men from the very beginning. After weeks of negotiations with the city of Kaiserslautern, they received the order under the company name Horneff & Becker to remove the waste and sewage in the eastern part of the city. The company was born.

Two-in-hand cars with a shutter-like lid opening on the rear front took over the household waste collection, a pair of oxen was responsible for the removal of the faeces. But automobiles were also used before the First World War. These performed a double function as a spray truck and latrine car.

The two brothers-in-law were later awarded the honorary title of a royal Bavarian economic council by the then Palatinate district government 'in recognition of their tireless work in special orders from the city administration'. Becker's twin sons Jakob and Willi soon succeeded them.