REMONDIS QR’s business locations
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The REMONDIS Group’s business locations
Discover the world of REMONDIS with its approx. 1,000 branches and associated companies in 30 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Treating mercury safely and properly
Handling waste materials that contain mercury is a complex and highly responsible task and no one wants to hand over these materials to any old business. When you work with us, you are working with qualified experts who know exactly how to handle mercury. We are the REMONDIS Group’s mercury specialists and have over 30 years’ experience of the industry. Large international customers from a whole range of sectors all around the world rely on our know-how and expertise. We are always there to provide you with in-depth advice whenever you need it.
Volker Warrelmann
Managing Director
E-Mail
T +49 451 58300-20
Florian Tolksdorf
Sales
E-Mail
T +49 451 58300-14
REMONDIS QR supports the UNEP’s Global Mercury Partnership
The Minamata Convention and the EU Regulation 2017/852 on Mercury – our guidelines, your safety.
Our Lübeck plant– processing and selling mercury
REMONDIS QR’s head office, which is based in Lübeck. Our business in Schleswig-Holstein has been treating waste containing mercury for more than three decades now. We are the experts to turn to for processing particularly complex waste mercury thanks to our experience and our state-of-the-art technology. There is very little that we are unable to successfully treat and/or recover in our plants and facilities. By the way, we are also very happy to take very small volumes of mercury. Our sales team for recycled mercury is also based in Lübeck alongside our recycling operations. The team works from here supporting our customers across Europe (e.g. laboratories and the lighting industry) and supplying them with mercury in line with the EU Regulation 2017/ 852 on Mercury.
We recycle mercury in accordance with EU law
Our portfolio
Recycled qualities:
We deliver recycled qualities ranging from 99.99 to 99.99999%.
Package sizes
We offer a variety of package sizes ranging from 0.25kg to 1,000kg.
Would you like us to treat your waste containing mercury or would you like to buy some pure metallic mercury?
Mercury (Hg): facts, properties & uses
Heavier than expected
With a density of 13.6 kg/l, mercury (Hg) is heavier than solid metals such as lead, copper and iron.
A liquid metal at room temperature
Mercury is the only metal that is a liquid at room temperature.
A toxic substance, a non-toxic mineral
Mercury is toxic. We use sulphur to stabilise mercury at our plant and transform it into HgS (cinnabar) – a substance free of any toxic properties.
Mercury-metal alloys
Mercury (Hg) forms alloys – so-called amalgams – with many different metals, which can then be used in a variety of sectors, such as dentistry, thanks to their properties.
Mercury – the basis for Ohm
In 1908, mercury was used to define Ohm, the unit of electrical resistance (1 Ohm = Hg column with a fixed cross-sectional area at 0°C).
Our product portfolio:
Recycled qualities:
99.99 to 99.99999%
Package sizes:
1kg to 1,000kg
