What Gamle Mursten does

Gamle Mursten is a privately held, for-profit Danish company headquartered in Svendborg, Denmark, founded in 2003. According to its firmographic profile, the company provides old brick demolition services with the stated purpose of recycling bricks, operating in the construction demolition and building-materials reuse segment. The firm is micro-scale, with a reported employee headcount of 1-10, suggesting a localized services operation rather than a scaled industrial recycler. Its principal deliverable is the careful demolition and recovery of brick masonry from existing structures for subsequent reuse or resale.

The company's business model appears to be project-based services work: clients (likely property owners, developers, restoration contractors, or heritage projects) engage the firm to dismantle brick structures and reclaim the masonry, which can then be re-sold or repurposed. No pricing model, revenue mechanics, customer segments, distribution channels, or marketing channels are disclosed in the available source material. The company's website (gamlemursten.dk) does not return substantive content; it displays only a "One moment, please… Please wait while your request is being verified" loader page, which materially limits public visibility into offerings, scale, and operations.

No information is available on funding, ownership, investors, leadership, partnerships, certifications, patents, technology stack, or product portfolio beyond the demolition-and-recycling service description. There is no disclosure of subsidiaries, parent entities, geographic markets served beyond Denmark, or operating geographies. The absence of these data points constrains any deeper analytical conclusion about the company's competitive position, financial profile, or strategic trajectory.

Name

Gamle Mursten

Legal name

Gamle Mursten

Website

https://gamlemursten.dk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Gamle Mursten is a small, privately held Danish firm based in Svendborg that provides old brick demolition and brick recycling services. Founded in 2003 with 1-10 employees, it serves the local construction and building-materials reuse market in Denmark.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Demolition and Brick Recycling Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Remediation and Other Waste Management Services (5629)

SIC

Wholesale-Lumber, Plywood, Millwork & Wood Panels (5031)

akta.pro primary industry

Deconstruction & Salvage (Building Materials Reuse) (BPALAJAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Demolition, Debris Removal & Site Cleanup (HSAPAOAC), Demolition (Structural, Selective/Interior) (IMAFAKAK), Deconstruction & Salvage (Building Material Reuse) (EUAIAHAJ)

Keywords

• Brick demolition services
• Brick recycling
• Reclaimed bricks
• Masonry salvage
• Construction demolition

Headquarters

HQ city

Svendborg

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

Gamle Mursten provides old brick demolition services with the goal of recycling and salvaging bricks. The company dismantles existing masonry structures to recover reusable bricks, supplying salvaged building materials.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Old brick demolition and recycling service

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Second Use Building Materials: US-based retailer of reclaimed and used building materials salvaged from deconstruction projects. Comparable as a brick and building-materials salvage-and-resale operation.
• Reclaimed Brick Exchange: UK-based broker/supplier of reclaimed bricks sourced from demolition projects. Same upstream (deconstruction) and downstream (resale) model as Gamle Mursten.
• Salvo: UK-based directory and marketplace for reclaimed architectural and building materials, including reclaimed bricks. Directly comparable as a sales channel and aggregator for the same end product Gamle Mursten produces.
• The Reclaimed Brick Company: UK specialist in sourcing, cleaning, and reselling reclaimed bricks. Closely comparable business model: procure old bricks from demolition sites, process, and resell to builders and heritage projects.
• Heritage Salvage: US building deconstruction and salvage company that recovers architectural elements and brick for resale. Directly comparable in service-plus-resale model.

Broad incumbents

• Petersen Tegl: Danish brick manufacturer with a long history in handmade and heritage-style bricks. Direct geographic incumbent and a primary substitute for reclaimed brick in the Danish market.
• Wienerberger: World's largest producer of clay bricks and other building materials. Broad incumbent serving the same end customer (brick buyers) with new rather than reclaimed products; sets the price benchmark Gamle Mursten's premium must clear.
• CRH plc: Global building materials group with brick, aggregates, and infrastructure products. Broad incumbent whose scale and vertical integration set competitive context for niche salvage players.
• Egernsund Tegl: Danish brick manufacturer producing both modern and traditional-format bricks for the Danish construction market. Local incumbent competing for the same end-customer brick demand.

Emerging players

• Habitat for Humanity ReStore: Network of nonprofit retail stores selling donated and salvaged home goods and building materials. Adjacent competitor for the resale side of the reclaimed-materials value chain, though operating on donated rather than purchased inventory.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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