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Company history
For more than 45 years, Buchen UmweltService has been a service
provider in partnership with industry and commerce in the trading
sectors of industrial service, disposal and remediation.
This traditional Cologne firm was founded back in 1844 as the "Pumpenmacherfabrik
Johann Schumacher". Three generations of Schumachers built up the
firm's position as an important partner for aspiring industry until
finally, in 1948, Richard Buchen, the husband of a Schumacher granddaughter,
recognised the opportunities for services in the industrial sector
and transformed the manufacturing business into a service provider.
The main service at that time was industrial cleaning with high
pressure water jet systems. At the end of the sixties, special waste
disposal developed as another central business division. This division
was continuously expanded in the following decades.
Further important dates:
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| 1979 |
Formation
of the subsidiary BUCHEN-ICS Industrial Catalyst Service, Cologne.
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| 1988 |
Ruhrkohle Umwelt, Bottrop, acquires a 30% share in the company.
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| 1990 |
Formation
of our own companies in Leuna/Merseburg and Schwedt/Oder in former
East Germany
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| 1991 |
Formation
of the subsidiary I.S.E UmweltService, Ludwigshafen, to do basic contract
work for our customer BASF
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| 1993 |
Ruhrkohle
Umwelt increases its participation to 100%.
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| 1994 |
Formation
of Buchen Ekoservis, Litvinov / Czech Republic
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| 1996-1998 |
Merger
of Richard Buchen GmbH and the Duisburg disposal firm WESTAB UmweltService
to form the present Buchen UmweltService GmbH. So FILTRATEC Mobile
Schlammentwässerung, Voerde, now also belongs to Buchen.
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| 1998-2000 |
Buchen
UmweltService becomes a subsidiary of the Iserlohn disposal firm Edelhoff
(subsidiary of VEW AG)
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| 2000 |
Formation
of Buchen KraftwerkService GmbH, Cologne
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| 2000-2001 |
In
the context of the RWE-VEW merger, RWE Umwelt becomes a new shareholder
of Buchen UmweltService with all its holding companies.
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| 2005 |
RWE Umwelt AG is being taken over by the family-run RETHMANN enterprise group and renamed REMONDIS AG. As a result, Buchen UmweltService GmbH along with all associated companies now belongs to the REMONDIS group. |
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