We operate a mercury treatment facility in Dorsten, a town located between the Münsterland region and the Ruhr area. This is where we ensure that waste containing mercury – generated by our customers from all over the world – is treated safely. Our services range from providing special bins for storing the material, to transporting the waste, all the way through to treating it using state-of-the-art technology. The aim of mercury treatment is to separate this heavy metal from the other materials and to stabilise it for further processing. We are able to do this on a grand scale in Dorsten. Thanks to our plant’s particularly large capacities.

An exothermic reaction transforms the mercury – both the mercury recovered from our rotary kiln and metallic mercury from a variety of industries (chlor-alkali industry, mines etc) – into non-toxic mercury sulfide. This is then sent to German salt mines for long-term storage.