The company CABLO Metall-Recycling und Handel GmbH has been a specialist in metal-plastic separation and especially in the recycling of cable production waste and old cable scrap since it was founded in 1949. Another business area is trading in metal scrap of all kinds.

With an annual processing capacity of approx. 20,000 t, CABLO is one of the largest European cable recycling providers. As a 100% subsidiary of Aurubis AG, Hamburg, CABLO is part of an integrated metal group that has a total production of approx. 1 million t of copper products. CABLO is thus also one of the largest copper recycling companies in the world.

With its services, CABLO closes material cycles completely and sustainably, as it provides the cable industry with the recovered raw materials in usable form as copper cathodes, cast copper wire or conductive aluminum.

In addition to its recycling activities, CABLO is a supplier of small pieces of new copper metal in the form of clippings and cathode sections for the electroplating, gravure printing and chemical industries. These are made from Aurubis preliminary products.

The CABLO production site in Fehrbellin / Brandenburg is located in the heart of Europe and therefore in the second largest copper market in the world.

CABLO currently employs around 50 people in its highly automated recycling systems and administration.

Company history

1949 Founding as CABLO GmbH for cable dismantling in Nordenhamm

1965 Opening of the company in Straß / Bavaria

1968 Introduction of fully mechanical cable dismantling

1994 Opening of the company in Fehrbellin / Brandenburg with the participation of the then Prime Minister Stolpe

1997 Certification according to EN ISO 9001: 2000 ff and appointment as a waste management company

1999 Merger to form CABLO Metall-Recycling & Handel GmbH. Renewal of plastics processing to injection molding technology

2004 Relocation of the company headquarters from Hamburg to Fehrbellin. Construction of a covered container parking space

2007 New hall for the manufacture of special products

2008 Commissioning of the 2nd plastic injection molding system

2009 Commissioning of the 3rd plastic injection molding system

2010 successful conversion and certification to EN ISO 9001:

2008 ff 2011 Commissioning of the 4th plastic injection molding system

2012 Implementation of an environmental and energy management system with certification according to EN ISO 14001 or EN ISO 50001