FES Frankfurt Disposal & Service

What FES Frankfurt Disposal & Service does

FES Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH is the municipal waste management and street services company for the City of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, operating as a GmbH with a headcount in the 1,001–5,000 range and a corporate group structure that includes subsidiaries Fessie, FFR GmbH, MHKW GmbH (waste-to-energy), RMB GmbH (recycling/materials), RMS GmbH (Rhein-Main solar park), and TRAPP Handels GmbH. It provides residual waste, bio, paper, packaging, and glass collection, bulky and hazardous waste services, street cleaning, and winter road maintenance to approximately 750,000 residents and a commercial customer base.

The company's operating backbone is a fleet that includes 34 battery-electric low-floor trucks — among them Mercedes-Benz eEconic heavy-duty BEVs supplied via Daimler Truck AG with 336 kWh combined LFP battery capacity and up to 536 peak horsepower — deployed for daily municipal collection routes. Customer-facing infrastructure spans four Wertstoffhöfe (recycling centers), two small waste stations, mobile hazardous and small-electronics collection, a door-to-door reYOUrs Holservice for clothing, electronics, and household items, and the FrankfurtPlus consumer portal/app and KundenPlus business customer portal, which consolidate waste calendars, bulky waste registration, container configuration, drop-off locations, and a CO2 calculator.

Revenue is generated primarily through regulated municipal waste fees paid by Frankfurt households and businesses (subscription/recurring), supplemented by commercial customer services via KundenPlus and, through subsidiaries, by waste-to-energy throughput (MHKW), solar generation (RMS), recyclate sales (RMB), and trade operations (TRAPP). Bulky waste pickup is offered free of charge to citizens. Sales and service delivery are direct-to-customer through FrankfurtPlus, KundenPlus, on-site recycling centers, and field operations, with no disclosed acquisition or fundraising activity.

Name

FES Frankfurt Disposal & Service

Legal name

FES Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH

Website

https://fes-frankfurt.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

FES Frankfurt Disposal & Service is the municipal waste management and street services utility for the City of Frankfurt am Main, providing collection, recycling, street cleaning, and winter services to roughly 750,000 residents and commercial customers via an electric truck fleet and the FrankfurtPlus digital platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Frankfurt

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Municipal Waste Collection Services: Core revenue from providing waste collection, recycling, and street cleaning services to the City of Frankfurt am Main and its residents. Services include residual waste, bio waste, paper, packaging, glass collection, bulky waste pickup, hazardous waste collection, and street cleaning.
2. Commercial Customer Services: Waste management services for business customers (Gewerbekunden) through dedicated business customer portal, including scheduled emptying services and specialized waste handling.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FES Frankfurt Disposal & Service is the municipal waste management company of Frankfurt am Main. It collects household waste and recyclables from approximately 750,000 residents, runs street cleaning and winter road maintenance for the city, and provides commercial waste disposal, container rentals, and special waste collections (bulky items, hazardous waste, used clothing) to businesses via a separate commercial portal. Operations are supported by a 34-vehicle battery-electric refuse fleet and dedicated subsidiaries covering container logistics, material recycling, and thermal waste treatment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• FrankfurtPlus: Digital service platform providing waste calendar, bulky waste registration, waste guide (Abfall-Abc), locations and services for Frankfurt citizens. Accessible via web and mobile app.

Products and services

• Household waste collection Scheduled curbside collection of household residual waste and recyclables for the approximately 750,000 residents of Frankfurt am Main, executed via FES's own collection fleet.
• Recycling services (Wertstoffhöfe) Bring-and-drop recycling centers (Wertstoffhöfe) operated for residential and commercial customers to dispose of separated recyclable materials.
• Street cleaning services Public street cleaning and maintenance of urban cleanliness for the City of Frankfurt am Main under municipal contract.
• Winter road maintenance (Winterdienst) Seasonal gritting, salting, and snow-clearance of roads and public spaces in Frankfurt am Main to keep the city operational during winter weather.
• Commercial waste disposal (KundenPlus) Contracted commercial waste collection, recycling stream management, and bulk removal services for businesses in Frankfurt am Main, ordered via the dedicated KundenPlus commercial portal.
• Bulky waste collection (Sperrmüll) On-demand curbside pickup of bulky household items (Sperrmüll) for residents of Frankfurt am Main, scheduled via the FrankfurtPlus portal.
• Hazardous waste collection (Schadstoffsammlung) Scheduled mobile collection events enabling Frankfurt residents to safely dispose of household hazardous materials such as paints, solvents, batteries, and chemicals.
• Used clothing collection (Altkleider) Curbside and bring-point collection of used clothing and textiles, with downstream resale handled via the group's TRAPP Handels GmbH second-hand retail subsidiary.
• Container and rental services Rental and delivery of waste containers of varying sizes to construction, demolition, and commercial sites, delivered via the FFR GmbH subsidiary.
• Removal service (Fessie brand) Branded household and small-business removal/clearance service operated under the Fessie label as a subsidiary of FES.
• Thermal waste treatment (MHKW) Thermal treatment of residual waste with energy recovery, provided through the MHKW GmbH subsidiary of FES.

Quantifiable outcome

• 34 battery-electric low-floor trucks in fleet

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• FessieminorOthersSubsidiary company of FES group. Appears to be a related service entity within the FES corporate group.
• FFR GmbHminorOthersSubsidiary company of FES group. Part of the FES corporate group structure.
• MHKW GmbHminorOthersSubsidiary company (likely waste-to-energy facility) of FES group.
• RMB GmbHminorOthersSubsidiary company of FES group, part of recycling and materials management operations.
• RMS GmbH (Rhein-Main-Solarpark)minorOthersSubsidiary company focused on solar energy, part of FES group's renewable energy and sustainability initiatives.
• TRAPP Handels GmbHminorOthersTrade partner with Entsorgungsfachbetrieb certification valid until April 2027.
• Daimler Truck AG (Mercedes-Benz)coreTechnology or IntegrationSupplier of Mercedes-Benz eEconic battery-electric trucks for Frankfurt's municipal fleet. Daimler provides first-generation electric powertrain technology with 336 kWh LFP battery capacity and up to 536 peak horsepower.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe (BSR): Municipal waste collection, street cleaning, and recycling operator for Berlin (~3.7M residents). Closest functional analogue to FES in Germany: same municipal mandate, similar service breadth (waste, recycling, street cleaning, winter), and similar public-utility structure.
• Stadtreinigung Hamburg (SRH): Hamburg's municipal waste collection and street cleaning company. Directly comparable to FES in scope (residual, bio, paper, bulky waste; hazardous; winter services) and in operating model as a city-owned GmbH.
• Münchner Stadtreinigung (MSB/MSM): Municipal waste management and street cleaning for the City of Munich. Comparable as a German Stadtreinigungsbetrieb offering residential collection, recycling, bulky waste, and value-added digital services to a major metropolitan population.
• Entsorgungsbetriebe der Stadt Köln (EBK / AWB): Cologne's municipal waste management company. Comparable as a German Stadtreinigungs-/Entsorgungsbetrieb handling collection, recycling, bulky and hazardous waste, and street cleaning for a large metropolitan population.

Broad incumbents

• Remondis GmbH & Co. KG: Germany's largest private waste and recycling company, with collection, treatment, and water operations nationwide. Comparable to FES on collection and disposal services but operating across multiple municipalities and at far greater scale as a private operator.
• ALBA Group / Interseroh: Major private German waste management and recycling group with services spanning collection, sorting, and secondary raw materials. Comparable to FES on hazardous, recycling, and C&I service lines but operating as a private, multi-region incumbent.
• PreZero (Schwarz Group): Environmental services division of the Schwarz Group covering collection, sorting, and recycling across Europe. Comparable to FES's recycling and materials-management activities, with significantly greater geographic scale and integrated retail-offtake.
• Veolia Deutschland: German arm of global utility Veolia, providing municipal and commercial waste, water, and energy services. Overlaps with FES on municipal collection contracts, hazardous waste handling, and waste-to-energy, especially via the MHKW-style operations FES runs.

Emerging players

• FCC Environment (FCC Group): European waste management arm of Spanish infrastructure group FCC, operating collection, treatment, and disposal services across several EU markets. Comparable to FES on municipal-collection and treatment operations, but as a multi-country operator rather than a single-city concession.

Regional players

• Stadtreinigung Dresden (SRD): Municipal waste and street-cleaning operator for the City of Dresden. Functionally identical to FES in Germany (residual, bio, paper, bulky waste, winter services, street cleaning) but in a smaller metropolitan geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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