A facility intended to transform mineral construction waste into high quality recycled raw materials is being established in the port of Neuss in Germany.
Strabag describes its new facility as a “value stream management site”, a flagship project for resource-conserving construction, with the aim of ramping up the systematic recycling of materials such as soil and construction waste mixtures in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Given its location at a port, the site is said to offer “optimal logistical conditions” for establishing such a facility, with both road, rail and port accessibility.
Georg Lehde, commercial director of Strabag in North Rhine-Westphalia, said:”The trimodal connection relieves the local road network and thus significantly reduces CO2 emissions, which is an invaluable advantage, especially in a region with intensive construction activity such as North Rhine-Westphalia.”
The company received approval for the project in September 2024. Following the start of construction work at the beginning of this year, the opening of the new site is already planned for the summer of this year.
At the site, up to 250,000 tonnes of mineral construction and raw materials will be accepted and systematically processed each year, the company says.
The materials are first screened and separated into two different value streams: soil and construction waste. While the screened soil is used for backfilling measures, the construction waste undergoes further processing steps. A crusher reduces it to a uniform grain size, which, after chemical analysis, is reused as a high-quality recycling material, such as for road substructures.
Main image: Value stream management site under construction in port Neuss. Image courtesy of Strabag AG
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