On Friday, 22 January 2010 the participants may choose one of the following plant tours: Plant Tour to UFH RE-cycling GmbH, Kematen 08.00 Departure by bus to UFH RE-cycling GmbH, Kematen 10.00 Arrival at UFH RE-cycling GmbH 10.00 - 12.30 Visit of the fridge recycling plant 15.00* Arrival at Salzburg Airport 15.30 Arrival at the Salzburg Congress Center UFH RE-cycling - fridge recycling at its best In response to the increasing scarcity of raw materials and the resulting rise in the demand for secondary raw materials, UFH, Austria's market leader in collection and recycling systems, and REMONDIS, one of the world's largest privately owned water and environmental service companies with its headquarters in Lünen, Germany, undertook the joint project “UFH RE-cycling” last year. Austria's most modern processing centre for fridges and freezers extends across a 15,000m_ site and operates a three-shift model, allowing it to process nearly 300,000 cooling units a year - or roughly 1,000 units a day. This means that over 400 kilograms of CFCs and other coolants and pump fluids are recovered and disposed of properly each day. UFH RE-cycling was opened in February 2009 after a construction period of just under eight months. www.ufhrecycling.at Plant tour to MONTANWERKE BRIXLEGG AG, Brixlegg 09.00 Departure by bus to Montanwerke Brixlegg AG 11.00 Arrival at the Montanwerke Brixlegg AG 11.00 - 13.00 Visit of the copper smelter 15.00* Arrival at Salzburg Airport 15.30 Arrival at the Salzburg Congress Center Montanwerke Brixlegg AG is Austria’s only copper producer, and has a history stretching back more than 500 years. Today Montanwerke is one of the leading secondary smelters in Europe. Core business is recycling copper and other precious metals from scrap and in further steps process it into cathodes and billets. For these two highly pure copper products the total output is over 200.000 tons per year. www.montanwerke-brixlegg.com Plant tour to Gebr. Gratz GmbH, Edt bei Lambach and LAVU AG, Wels 08.00 Departure by bus to Gebr. Gratz GmbH, Edt 10.00 Arrival at Gebr. Gratz GmbH 10.00 - 11.00 Visit of the shredder plant 11.00 Departure to LAVU AG, Wels 11.30 Arrival at LAVU AG 11.30 - 15.00 Visit of the waste logistic centre 17.00* Arrival at Salzburg Airport 17.30 Arrival at the Salzburg Congress Center Gebrüder Gratz was established in 1938 and currently employs 75 staff members. The present site was built in 1988 and consists of a 1.250 PS shredder, an 800t scrap shear as well as a non-ferrous metal preparation plant. Per annum amounts of 12.000t scrap iron and 6.000t metal are sorted and pre-processed, while 10.000 car wrecks are drained and 2.000t of electronic scrap are processed. This year a waste water system dealing with the sewage of the whole site went live. The current export rate amounts 70%. www.gratz-schrott.at LAVU AG, an enterprise owned by the Upper Austrian waste management associations, is well known for the RCC-system, a trend-setting system for the collection of recyclable waste. In the last 20 years a region-wide net of 185 “recyclables collecting centres” (RCC) has been established in which 80 different waste materials are collected separately. LAVU AG is in charge of planning and establishing the infrastructure of these RCCs and also controls the management and staff recruitment for these centres. Since 1999, all RCC, operated by LAVU AG, have been certificated according to ISO 14001. The Waste Logistics Centre (WLC) of LAVU AG, situated in the centre of Upper Austria at Wels, serves as the functional and logistic turntable for the RCC-system. From there LAVU is responsible together with specialized partners for subsequent recovery (recycling rate of 90 %) of 80 different waste materials. In 2008 more than 210.000 tons (153 kg/cap.) were collected by the RCC. LAVU AG is also responsible for collection & handling of discarded oils and preparation for conversion into bio-diesel. Further the WEEE category “small electrical appliances” is dismounted by LAVU itself at the WLC. www.lavu.at Plant tour to Müller-Guttenbrunn Group Metall Recycling Mü-Gu GmbH, Amstetten Metran Rohstoff-Aufbereitungs GmbH, Kematen MBA Polymers Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH, Kematen 08.00 Departure by bus to the above mentioned 3 companies 10.00 Arrival at above mentioned 3 companies 10.00 - 14.00 Visit of the shredder plant of Metall Recycling Mü-Gu GmbH Visit of the metal separation plant of Metran Rohstoff-Aufbereitungs GmbH Visit of the plastic recycling plant of MBA Polymers Kunststoffverarbeitung GmbH 16.30* Arrival at Salzburg Airport 17.00 Arrival at the Salzburg Congress Center The Metall Recycling Mü-Gu GmbH in Amstetten de-pollutes the E-Waste in an environmentally friendly manner and each of the de-polluted fractions are disposed of in line with the E-Waste directive. The selective Shredder separates high quality ferrous metal scrap; most non ferrous metals are further extracted and concentrated by type of metal (Copper, Aluminium etc.) by the company Metran GmbH. Even metals < 1mm can thus be extracted and re-introduced into the recycling cycle. Metran also creates a valuable Plastics Fraction, which is delivered to MBA Polymers for further processing. www.mueller-guttenbrunn.at MBA Polymers produces high grade plastics granulates, compounds and flakes from mixed plastic waste from mainly End-Of-Life Electronics and other durable products. The technical visit will include the MBA Polymers production facility the Kematen/Ybbs. On an surface of 20.000 sqm of which some 8.000 sqm covered surface, this plastics recovery plant represent one of the most advanced plastic-recycling facilities of the world with a capacity of 40.000 tons per year. The 60 highly qualified MBA Polymers Austria staff operates an automated high-tech recycling production process. There are 3 individual production stages supervised by a constant quality assurance system and the RoHS / REACH compliant plastics are used for high-tech applications. www.mbapolymers.at * No guarantee on arrival time due to traffic conditions