In 1974 Jan Janssen started a transport and contractor business (J.A.M. Janssen) in the garden of his Gennep home. Initially on his own, but gradually building the business up, until it didn’t fit in his back garden anymore. This then forced him to leave the neighbourhood and relocate to nearby Heijen. Since then there have been a couple of business moves but AVG Heijen still remains. The trade in sand and gravel brought AVG in contact with German concrete mixing plants and slowly but surely a plan was developed to build their own mixing plant. This reached fruition in 1985, thanks to much building work in Noord-Limburg, and the fact that AVG had taken over its own sand and gravel exploitation. Since 1989 there has been a permanent stone crusher in Heijen. This is used to work not only production waste from the concrete plant, but also building and demolition rubble. A second concrete mixing plant was built in Duisburg-Rheinhausen in 1999. Meanwhile the crushing…

This year a special event take place at company HAAS and fit in the everyday working life of the production of turnkey waste wood recycling installations and crushing installations for potentially recyclable resources. The company celebrated their 25 year existence over three event days. A dealer and information exchange has been at the 24th and 25th of September. At the 24th of September the dealers of HAAS could refresh their know-how of the product range on the basis of training documents and live demonstrations. On Thursday evening HAAS celebrates with about 130 guests out of 21 nations with a great buffet and live music at the castle “Historica” in Rotenhain. At the 25th of September the customers and dealers could get some information about the HAAS products and new developments via presentations at different stations. The company presents innovations and a modified machine, named TYRON 2000 2.0 new edition, on every event day. Saturday, the 26th…

With a capacity of 70 - 80 t/h in Manchester Set up in the late 1950’s by Geoff Boden and Eric Davies and still owned by the Boden family, the company has become an industry leader in wood waste recycling handling over 800 tonnes of waste each day. Based on a 15 acre site in Astley in Greater Manchester the plant recycles wood which is supplied to various industries such as flooring, manufacturing and biomass. The company is also one of the UK’s leading manufacturers and supplier of pet products. The Bodens plant is one of the world’s biggest waste wood recycling plants. We would like to give you a brief insight into the system: The waste wood processing line has been supplied and installed in 2008. The system has been running for more than 30,000 hours and more than 2,400,000 tonnes of waste wood have been processed! The line starts with a mobile HAAS Twin-Shaft Slow Speed Shredder on tracks – TYRON 2.500 – to which the waste and demolition wood is fed. The pre-shredder reduces the material to a size…

A good Basis for a Successfull Collaboration Zollikofer is an international logistic and commercial business for saw by-products, used, forest and energy wood with headquarters in Bad Wurznach. Since 1966 Zollikofer has been successfully active in wood logistics and trade. With five locations for wood processing and storage all over Germany, Zollikofer has been one of the market leaders for years. ”We understand our customers as partners to whom we forward goods of the highest quality and at reasonable prices as quickly as possible. Due to our well thought-out and proven processing and logistic processes, we not only secure the quality of our raw materials, but also the complete satisfaction of our customers”, said Wilfried Zollikofer regarding the corporate philosophy and image. Since 2013 the company uses processing technology from HAAS at two locations. The processing plant at the location Riedlings was commissioned in October 2013. So far 87 500 tons of waste wood have been processed in 2500 operating…