Over 30 years of invaluable service for the environment
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The firm today known as Interzero Repasack GmbH was founded in 1991 by Gemeinschaft Papiersackindustrie (GemPSI) in Wiesbaden to help paper sack users meet their take-back and recycling obligations. The company takes back sacks from industry and trade as separately collected fraction and puts the valuable kraft paper fibres back in the loop through mechanical recycling. The composite materials in REPASACK sacks can only be recycled when processed as a mono-material stream. The driving force behind the initiative is and was the chemical industry association Verband der Chemischen Industrie (VCI), which wanted to prevent product residues from paper sacks from entering the conventional paper cycle as impurities. Today, nine administrative staff members work in Wiesbaden and a team of 12 people at the paper sack recycling plant in Oberhausen. All recyclable post-consumer material from all over Germany is prepared for later use in paper mills in Oberhausen. Its location in the Ruhr Valley makes it a perfect logistics hub for Interzero Repasack GmbH.
- 17 June 1991 Repasack GmbH is established
- January 1993 System and cleaning plant in Oberhausen is commissioned
- January 2000 All GemPSI shares are sold to today’s Interzero Circular Solutions Germany GmbH
- June 2022 The company is renamed Interzero Repasack GmbH
One of a kind in Europe
It is the only company in Europe dedicated to recycling paper sacks with its proprietary cleaning technology, which has been constantly improved over many years.
The future
Repasack repeatedly receives requests from customers asking the company to shred and compact their material streams. This creates many opportunities. An application is currently being made to build a bypass to the cleaning module, which is to be going into operation in 2024. This solution allows more material streams to be shredded and compacted without going through the cleaning systems. This will prevent blockages and damage to the systems. It means that other materials can be prepared for recycling as well as kraft paper sacks
Uwe Lauf has been here from the very beginning: Apart from two years as Plant Manager at the lightweight sorting plant in Marl, he has always been part of the Repasack team. Every screw at the Oberhausen plant has been in his hands at least once. Congratulations on your anniversary!
Interzero Repasack in figures
- In Europe, North and Central America and Asia, 70 paper sack manufacturers can print the exclusive REPASACK label on their customers bags.
- Each year, 25,000 tonnes of paper sacks (empty weight) are printed with the REPASACK label.
- These sacks are used or brought onto the market by around 800 companies, mostly in manufacturing.
