UWEG Disposal-Gesellschaft MbH

 UWEG Disposal-Gesellschaft MbH - DISPOSAL AND RECYCLING

 UWEG Disposal-Gesellschaft MbH is a modern, medium-sized, private service company.

UWEG offers a variety of different problem solutions in the field of waste disposal and recycling as well as solutions for cleaning industrial plants, containers and tankers. Together with our network partners, UWEG offers a wide range of solutions and services for our customers in industry, commerce, municipalities and private households.

OUR COMMITMENT TO A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT

Since the beginning of the company, advanced systems have been developed, built and put into operation on their own initiative in order to be able to offer the Austrian waste owners environmentally friendly disposal before specific laws come into force.

Company History

1939

Foundation of the company Kurt Schuhmann OHG, which for the first time collected waste and sewage with 2-axle vacuum tankers on behalf of private as well as commercial and industrial companies.

1945 to 1946

Provisional management of Kurt Schuhmann OHG by Mr. Alois Wolfgang on behalf of the US authorities.

1965

Foundation of the company Alois Wolfgang GmbH for the transport of liquid waste with vacuum suction tankers and for the cleaning of sewer systems for the first time with mobile high-pressure flushing devices.

1970

Commissioning of the first large-capacity suction tanker in Austria.

1976

Takeover of the shares of A. Wolfgang GmbH and Schuhmann OHG by the company of the Himmelfreundpointner family.

1977

Construction of a tank farm for flammable and liquid hazardous waste. First-time applications of a construction and sealing technology with HDPE waterproofing membranes through cooperation between Wolfgang GmbH, a public institute for plastics technology and a north German company.

1978

Construction of a first separator system for the separation of collected oil sludge and water to avoid landfilling that was customary at the time.

1979

Commissioning of a purification and clarification plant for the separation of oil-water mixtures.

1979

Commissioning of the first mobile large-capacity sludge filter press in Austria. Due to the practices and legal situation regarding waste disposal at the time, the mobile system was used in Hamburg for river rehabilitation for two years.

1980

First export of chlorinated hazardous waste for incineration on ocean-going vessels Vulkanus 1 and Vulkanus 2.

1982

Start of the disposal of PCB-containing capacitors and transformers in a German underground landfill.

1983

Planning of a CP system on the site of the 1977 tank farm in Wels, which was discontinued in 1984 due to various controversial statements by public officials.

1984

Retrofitting of the separator system built in 1978 with a wastewater treatment system.

1986

Expansion of the range of products for almost all hazardous waste generated in Austria through cooperation with high-tech waste disposal plants in France, Germany, the Benelux countries and, above all, Great Britain. By exporting hazardous waste that cannot be disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner in Austria, a significant contribution to environmental protection in Austria could be made several years before the legal regulations on landfilling and thermal and chemical treatment of various hazardous waste came into force.

1987

Conclusion of a lease agreement with a landowner until 2070 for an agricultural area of ​​2.6 hectares in Wels Pernau, Schafwiesen, which was adjacent to the garbage dump site of the city of Wels.

1987

Submission of an environmental impact declaration to the Wels magistrate about the facilities planned by the UWEG on the site next to the Wels landfill in order to be able to provide the decision-makers responsible for the reallocation of the property with the necessary information for the planned project. The system concept presented in the environmental impact declaration should include the requirement of the Office of the Upper Austrian State Government, Department of Water Law, to reduce the limit values ​​originally approved by the Wels Magistrate for hydrocarbons from 20 ml / l in wastewater to the then state-of-the-art 20 mg / l (= 1/1000) can be met.

1987

Decision of the Austrian Federal Environmental Fund and the Upper Austrian Regional Environmental Fund for the significant financial support of the project planned by the UWEG (CPB plant) in the amount of ATS 17.8 million, which made it possible to meet the intentions of the environmental legislation.

1988

Expansion of the existing company laboratory in the field of wastewater and waste analysis (GC, AOX, AAS, IC, heavy metal, cations, anions, chlorine analysis, etc.).

1990 to 1991

Disposal order from the Republic of Austria for an officially initiated renovation of a leather factory in Upper Austria.

1993

Ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of a central CPB plant for solid, liquid and pasty hazardous waste in Industriestrasse in Wels, as the planned construction at the site next to the Wels landfill will not take place due to the fact that the city of Wels did not rededicate the area between 1987 and 1993 and one Further extension of the deadline by the Office of the Upper Austrian state government for the renovation of the facilities built in 1976 was not approved.

1993

Founding of GUA Labor- und Analytik GmbH by Dipl.-Ing. Ewald Mayr and UWEG, who took over the UWEG company laboratory.

1994

Investment in an expanded sealing technology (based on HDPE) for the tank storage facility built in 1977 to verify the tightness of the tank storage tray using vacuum testing technology.

1995

Relocation of the existing washing area for tank vehicles from the inner courtyard to a flying roof building.

1995 to 1996

Commissioning of the CPB plant with an annual capacity of more than 120,000 tons.

1997

UWEG retires as a partner from GUA Labor- und Analytik GmbH, which was founded in 1993.

2000

Purchase of another plant for the collection and treatment of hazardous and non-hazardous waste in Asten near Linz from OÖ LAVU AG.

2003

Development of apparatus and process technologies which, among other things, enable the use of raw materials and waste in processes that were previously impossible.

2004

The restrictions on the disposal of waste in landfills, which are gradually becoming legally effective within the EU, confirm both the market economy and the technological standpoint of the UWEG and underline its results in the area of ​​environmental waste management. Further fundamental organizational and personnel expansions create the prerequisites for a future primarily raw material and technology-oriented development.

2005

Official summary of the 41 individual permits issued by trade, building and water law authorities in the years 1976 - 1996 to form an overall environmental decision as well as the approval of additionally requested environmental protection measures. 2005 Cooperation agreement with a leading Austrian industrial company on the use of an apparatus and process technology developed by UWEG for conditioning and conveying alternative substances.

2005

Decision of the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) on the financial support of the above project

2006

Participation of the UWEG as a party in an environmental impact assessment procedure for a planned chemical-physical waste treatment plant, which was planned and officially negotiated on the site of the land previously optioned and leased by UWEG.

2007

Listing of the CPB system by the Austrian Federal Environment Agency as the leading Austrian reference system within the EU according to IPPC Directive 2007 (Integrated Pollution Prevention Control); This means that the technologies available at UWEG were used as EU-wide reference standards. Completion of the certifications ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 18001, SQAS and EFB as well as implementation of an extended software solution.

2010

Upgrade of the SBR reactors by installing heat exchangers, whereby an energy recovery with simultaneous control of the temperature balance and thus an increase in efficiency of the biological process could be achieved.

2011 to 2017

Takeover of waste management by DI Dr. Andreas Plank, MBA

Full implementation of the waste balance system according to AWG 2002

Further development of a patented conveying system (hybrid conveying technology) for conveying heterogeneous, variable, pumpable substances or amounts of substances without significant compression of the conveyed material in the conveying line

Further development of the visualization and control technology in the central CPB system

Purchase of hazardous goods vacuum suction tankers with high pressure flushing equipment

Integration of the OIKOS laboratory at Industriestraße 66 in the company's own plant operations

Commissioning of a double-walled floor sealing system that can be permanently subjected to vacuum under the structures of the central CPB system