Sustainable through automation
Lobbe Industrieservice relies on the highest possible standards Work in industrial services often takes place in sensitive work areas. Here, the protection of employees through the highest level of occupational safety is paramount. "We do not reduce sustainability to climate protection alone; other factors such as working conditions that focus on the health and safety of employees are also [...]
Plastics recycling
The mattress, the smartphone or the light switch - nothing would work without plastic. Plastic is often hidden in areas of life that no one thinks about for long, that are taken for granted in civilisation. The visible signs of our consumer society are the darker sides: Threatening rubbish carpets in the oceans, microplastics in the soil, littered landscapes... Germany sets an example against [...]
Sustainability in focus
Sustainable Development Goals When many people think of sustainability, they think primarily of climate neutrality. Besides the carbon footprint, which should be as neutral as possible, there are 16 other criteria. With: human health, prosperity, justice, education, gender equality, decent work, economic growth, industry, innovation, life on land and under water are just a few mentioned. These selected examples show that [...]
Schwarze Pumpe: Structural change in the soil too
Half-time in the soil remediation at the former Spremberg gas combine. It was the largest energy combine in the former GDR. Until the 1990s, briquette factories, electricity and steam generation, coking plants and town gas production were located on the Schwarze Pumpe site. Up to 125,000 tonnes of raw lignite per day were delivered from the surrounding opencast mines, processed and around 85 per cent of the total town gas [...]
100,000 tonnes of soil prepared
Last show of strength for a clean landfill 100,000 tonnes of soil processed In Lusatia, a structurally weak region, around 8,000 jobs are directly linked to lignite, as well as a further 16,000 jobs with suppliers. There are always discussions about "pro" and "contra" lignite. This was also the case in Proschim, a small town on the edge of the Welzow-Süd open-cast lignite mine. There was agreement among the [...]
Waste containers made from plastic waste
Michael Wieczorek, Managing Director Lobbe Entsorgung West GmbH & Co KG, in an interview: "A credo for more circular and recycling economy" The idea is not only charming, but also resource-saving: Lobbe plans to produce and use waste containers from plastic waste together with a partner. A project that is currently in the test phase and has enormous potential. How it [...]
Hot as hell
Hellishly hot shutdown work by Lobbe during HKM's ongoing operations I follow the operations manager Guido Schwarz to Lobbe's site at HKM and involuntarily have to stop. I feel as if I have landed at the mouth of hell: Iron heated to over 1,400 degrees is just being poured out of a gigantic container called a ladle behind two fireproof [...]
Against the silver cat
Lobbe successfully uses gentle combination process for industrial cleaning at BASF Ludwigshafen Almost inaudibly, Lobbe's own construction with three custom-made pipes on a frame made of profiles moves a few centimetres to the right. Then the rotating pipes sink into the openings of a heat exchanger, it steams and hisses, water mist obstructs the view and millimetre-sized grains of the [...]
Half-timbering and Gothic
Lobbe removes faulty floor on the Regensburg Cathedral grounds "The bishop asked us to pause with the suction work for mass," says Operations Manager Steffen Müller, Lobbe Industrieservice Süd. This is because Lobbe's suction truck is located on the small square between one of Germany's most important Gothic cathedrals and the adjacent building. Next to Cologne Cathedral, the cathedral symbolises [...]
