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KUKA AG, headquartered in Augsburg, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of intelligent robotics, plant and system technology. To ensure that internal waste disposal at the headquarters in Augsburg is efficient and modern in the future, investments are being made in this area and the waste disposal concept developed by ELOGplan is being rolled out. At the end of the year, the disposal centre will go into operation, after which tugger trains will be installed for disposal logistics and standardised multifunctional containers (MFB) will be used to collect waste at the points of generation.

Based on the MFB designed by BÜCHL, some site-specific adjustments were made to the container for KUKA and tested in a pilot operation. KUKA was convinced of the advantages of the container and ordered around 170 of the high-quality containers from ELOGplan. The MFBs will be manufactured in batches at a specialist company in the coming months and will be used in Augsburg from 2024.

A youth group from Tanzania also visited our company as part of a youth exchange. BÜCHL Innovation Manager and ELOGplan Managing Director Dieter Friedrich co-organised this youth exchange. The aim of the visit to BÜCHL was an exchange on the topics of circular economy and sustainability. “It is very important and valuable to look beyond the ‘German edge of the plate’, especially when it comes to these topics, and to broaden one’s horizons,” says Friedrich.

Prof. Reinhard Büchl hat für die Jugendgruppe zudem einen Vortrag an der Technischen Hochschule Ingolstadt gehalten und mit den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer diskutiert. Im Anschluss überreichte Prof. Büchl stellvertretend für die BÜCHL Foundation eine Spende über 1.500 €.

The money will be used for the Kimambila project in Tanzania. In addition to reforestation, a training centre for the deaf is being built there and wells are being drilled to improve the hygienic situation of the rural population.

Caption: Reinhard Büchl hands over the donation to George Pindua

Ingolstadt, 31.03.2023

What will the circular economy of the future look like? What does sustainable circular economy mean? Which sustainability solutions does the BÜCHL Group implement in concrete terms?

These and other questions were on the agenda of the two-hour expert discussion between Roland Weigert – State Secretary in the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy – other representatives from the Ministry and the BÜCHL Group, represented by Reinhard Büchl, Iris Büchl, Reinhard Büchl sen. and Michael Tretter.

The representatives from the ministry emphasized the importance of medium-sized companies as drivers of innovation and sustainability – BÜCHL is a prime example and pioneer of this.

Resource, logistics, climate and digitalisation skills are needed for a sustainable circular economy. The BÜCHL Group combines these competencies under one roof. In this way, holistic solutions can be created, such as the specially developed software for digitizing disposal processes CLEVER WASTE®, the ELOG SYSTEM 4.0, a complete solution for internal disposal logistics, or the BÜCHL climate strategy CERO2WASTE.

The participants agreed that further discussions will follow in order to go into the individual aspects in more detail.

The BÜCHL Group will soon publish more about the climate strategy CERO2WASTE.

Caption: Reinhard Büchl sen., Reinhard Büchl, Roland Weigert, Michael Tretter (v.l.)

Foto: StMWi

Prof. Reinhard Büchl celebrated his 75th birthday on 25.09. Reinhard Büchl has developed the family business into a successful Group with new ideas, innovative projects, and vision for more than 50 years – and always with a focus on sustainability and environmental protection. Reason enough to present the milestones of success: 1987 BÜCHL Disposal Consultation was founded by him (now: www.ELOGplan.com); 1993 was the start of a very successful cooperation up to the present with independent waste management companies (www.logex.de), 1997 organic waste collection and recycling started as a pilot project  in Ingolstadt (now included in www.bioin-gmbh.de) and one year later passenger car prototype disassembly (now www.priorec.de). BÜCHL HUNGARIA an industrial waste management company is very successful through his commitment since 1999/2000 (www.buechl.hu). After handing over the operative business to the 3rd generation Reinhard Büchl built up the new Institute for Sustainability from 2017 (www.inas-institut.de) and up to the present supports strategic projects in the Group such as digitalisation www.cleverwaste.de). Not least, Reinhard Büchl has also shaped the branch: as President of the VBS (Bavarian Waste Management Association), Speaker for the Cluster of Environmental Technologies Bavaria, in the DIHK (Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry), and the VDI (The Association of German Engineers). Reinhard Büchl is closely linked with the TH Ingolstadt (Technical University of Ingolstadt) in Research and Teaching and is continuing to develop innovative ideas – also for the BÜCHL Group.

A new transportable container system for airbag destruction, designed and built by ELOGplan, is ready to work after final tests in January 2019. Based on a 20 ft sea container ELOGplan designed an integrated system which includes the ignition unit, a safe and sound-proof destruction box, the air ventilation system as well as working space and capacities for transport of separated kinds of waste. The number of airbags to destruct is increasing every year: garages, dismantling centres for EOLV and car manufacturers get airbags in different types and from different producers. They have to dispose these products fulfilling the legal requirements, especially for the explosives as well as health, safety and environment. The new mobile system guarantees a safe airbag destruction by minimization risks, reducing costs and avoiding packaging and transport. Together with other BÜCHL Group companies, ELOGplan offers these service at first in Germany. An international service is planned if customers or service partners are interested in.

On 01.03.2018, Reinhard Büchl completed the last step of his long and well-prepared exit from the BÜCHL Group – after more than 45 years of successful entrepreneurial activity. His function as managing director in many companies of the group came to an end and, thus, the transfer of corporate responsibility to his children Reinhard Büchl jun. and Iris Büchl was completed. Through innovation, foresight and a feeling for the trends in the industry, Prof. Reinhard Büchl not only developed BÜCHL into a successful group of companies with 500 employees today, but he also strengthened the entire industry through association functions, innovative logistics solutions and the development of networks and cooperation over decades. Prof. Reinhard Büchl remains true to his passion for sustainability and resource efficiency in his new role as the founder and director of INAS (Institute for Applied Sustainability), an affiliated institute of the TH Ingolstadt technical university.www.inas-institut.de

Are you coming to the Night of the Companies and Science? Along with a number of other companies and educational institutions in Ingolstadt, the BÜCHL Group is participating in this event which offers customers, citizens and employees a unique insight into our company.

A programme for the whole family is planned: in addition to cool music (the Groove Onkels, who appeared in the show Supertalent are going to perform!) and our BÜCHL classic burger by Gregor Wittmann, children can ride in a refuse collection vehicle and paint new bins for future use. Visitors can find out about trainee professions, job opportunities and internships and win a ticket straight to the 2019/2020 interviews within the framework of “BÜCHL’s next TOP trainee”. Adults and children can drive mini-diggers themselves and experience recycling up close.

The Night of the Companies and the free bus transfer to the companies is organised by the IRMA. In the Manchinger Strasse business park, FC Ingolstadt 04 and Media Saturn, amongst others, are also taking part in the event. You can find the programme of the IRMA here, and the special programme of BÜCHL here.

In the early stages of planning the redesign and reconstruction of the Temmler site in Munich, investors were already searching for a waste disposal expert. ELOGplan was commissioned in the middle of 2017 to work on a draft concept for waste disposal and to be included in the planning stages for the three participating architecture firms. Due to the complex and dense building development, the multi-layered use of the site and the diverse range of tenants, the most important task of all was to use the space cleverly to minimise the amount of land used for the recycling centre and to select the most suitable waste disposal logistics plan for the building complex. ELOGplan’s waste disposal plan significantly reduced the originally planned amount of land used and became part of the building application submitted at the end of 2017. “Die Macherei” is an office and commercial quarter with approx. 64,000 square metres gross floor space.

The German sites of the American automotive supplier DURA AUTOMOTIVE were searching for a partner at the end of 2016, in order to develop recycling documents for the vehicle parts supplied to many European producers, as many vehicle manufacturers require such information for their recycling and sustainability strategy. The VW Group has even issued its own standard for this purpose (VW Standard 91102). On the basis of these standards and guidelines, ELOGplan has created such documents for parts varying in complexity and concluded the project at the end of 2017. The ELOGplan’s calculations are based, not only on detailed information on the recycling capability of various materials, but also on the knowledge of modern and future separation technologies and recycling rates available through these. Last but not least, ELOGplan also analyses the production process on-site in production plants (in this case, in Germany and the Czech Republic) and previous and present waste disposal of scrap parts. For DURA Automotive, there is a high certainty that they will be able to respond to future demand of manufacturers quickly.

Due to the expected growth of e-mobility there will be huge challenges in storage, packaging, transport and recycling of used high voltage and lithium batteries. ELOGplan as a new member of BEM-Association (Federal Association of E-Mobility – englisch prüfen bitte!) is very interested to point out, that these aspects are really important to create a sustainable life cycle process for used batteries and will be active in these fields. Following their contribution of SAFIR R&D project (see news from August 2016) the strategy of ELOGplan is to offer planning, consulting and training services to producers, customers and public alongside the life cycle of used batteries.