Econ Industries has been operating in the profession of industrial waste treatment for over 20 years. Starting with the mantra “Zero Industrial Waste…!” we are passionate about working every day towards a cleaner future; creating safe and effective alternatives to landfilling and waste incineration.

Developing cutting edge resource recovery techniques for hazardous industrial wastes is our daily business. The environment is of utmost importance to us, and all of our work is consistently undertaken in accordance with the strictest German and local environment regulations.

Technology

  1. VacuDry – vacuum thermal desorption technology to solve waste management issues in an economically sound and sustainable way to remove Mercury and Hydrocarbon pollutions from contaminated soils, recovering high-alloyed steel from metal sludge, treatment of drill cuttings from oil and gas drilling operations, and many more.
  2. Mercury Conversion – converting elemental Mercury to Mercury Sulphide, and ensure companies with excess Mercury is no longer traded or disposed of in a vague or questionable manner
  3. High Temperature Treatment – continuous process designed for the treatment of catalysts and activated carbon contaminated with Mercury, Mercury Sulphide, Sulphur, and Hydrocarbons

Industries

  • Oil and gas – solutions for oily wastes from exploration to refining
  • Metal industry – processing of grinding swaft, mill scale and other metal containing sludge
  • Chlorine industry – treatment of Mercury residues from former chlor-alkali electrolysis plants
  • Site remediation – ex-situ on-site cleaning of contaminated soils

Applications

  • Drill cuttings – recovery of drilling fluid in the best quality
  • Oily waste – the integrated solution for oily waste
  • Filter cake – treatment of filter cake waste from industrial processes
  • Mercury waste – Mercury recovery from waste and soil
  • Soil – remediation of soil and building rubble
  • Metal sludge – separation of grinding oil and metal without quality losses
  • NORM waste – treatment of Natural Occuring Radioactive Material for safe sub earth disposal
  • Sulphur waste – solids and sludge up to 60% elemental sulphur
  • Calcium Fluoride – filter cake
  • Other wastes – solids and sludges with varying viscosities, liquid, semi-solid, solid
  • INDUSTRIAL SCHEDULED WASTE CODE – waste codes that can be treated with a VacuDry® based on the Waste Classification Ordinance (Abfallverzeichnis-Verordnung – AVV) and European Waste Catalogue (EWC)