Expansion in our logistical potentials –
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An order for grinding of gold-containing connectors and thus the recovery of this precious metal resulted in an additional field of business: recycling of and trading in precious metals.

In 2002, the accession of the next generation to the family-run company, in the person of present-day CEO Matthias Lang, also brought new ideas and thus new fields of materials recovery for the company. Now, not only large machines and equipment, computers and monitors, but also dismantled individual components, inter alia, are further processed. The company thus provides not only services for the recycling of metals, cables and waste electrical/electronic equipment (WEEE), but also for trade in precious-metals-containing materials, including the dismantling of transformers, and floor tiles produced from recycled PVC.

The expansion of these spheres of business necessitated a new building that would provide more space and permit modern logistics arrangements. ALKU GmbH arrived at its present Maxhütte-Haidhof site, not far from Regensburg, in 2008. ALKU GmbH‘s activities nowadays focus predominantly on the recycling of printed-circuit boards (30%) and on transformer dismantling and recycling (30%).

The company accepts, in general, WEEE, cables, transformers and also other metals, irrespective of the quantities proffered by the customer. All types of (predominantly) metals thus also accumulate here: copper, brass, aluminium, V2A steel, lead, tin, zinc, and also special metals, such as indium, gallium, molybdenum, chromium, nickel and tungsten.

The used metals and composite materials delivered are then sorted at ALKU and supplied to smelting plants and refineries. „The large quantities involved, the consistent quality and our on-time delivery enable us to obtain major contracts directly with the metallurgical plants“, notes Matthias Lang, CEO at ALKU GmbH.