What VEKA Environmental Technology does

VEKA Umwelttechnik GmbH is a privately held German PVC recycling company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Behringen, Thuringia. It operates the largest and most modern PVC recycling plant in Europe, processing discarded windows, doors, roller shutters, and production residues made of plastic through a proprietary four-stage mechanical process: shredding, magnetic metal separation, PVC extraction via air separation tables and sieve plates with automated computer/video color sorting, and granulation with quality control. The company is a subsidiary of the family-owned VEKA Group (VEKA Aktiengesellschaft), which operates 53 locations across four continents with more than 7,000 employees, and is closely integrated with sister entity VEKA Compounds, which converts the recyclate into rigid PVC granules for new profile extrusion.

The company's revenue model combines B2B recycling services with regranulate/compound sales. It supplies collection containers (Gitterboxen, Kippmulden, Abrollcontainer) to partner businesses, schedules free pickup via its own truck fleet, and processes materials to produce VEKA Compounds — PVC regranulate that can be reused up to ten times for extrusion, yielding an effective product lifespan of around 350 years and approximately 90% CO2 reduction versus virgin PVC production. It serves over 2,300 partner businesses — primarily window manufacturers and dealers, installers, disposal and demolition companies, and housing companies — across three European sites in Germany (Behringen), France (Vendeuvre-sur-Barse), and the United Kingdom (Wellingborough), with combined processing capacity exceeding 50,000 tonnes per year.

The business is supported by long-term service contracts, regulatory documentation (Verwertungsnachweis) for compliance, and certifications including TÜV disposal facility (since 1997, the first in Germany for plastic windows), ISO 9001, ISO 50001, and EfbV (Entsorgungsfachbetrieb). VEKA Umwelttechnik is a founding shareholder of Rewindo GmbH (2002), a German PVC window recycling initiative co-developed with leading profile manufacturers, and is a member of Plastics Recyclers Europe. To date, the company reports recycling 25 million plastic windows and enabling 40 million windows manufactured with recycled material in circulation, with cumulative CO2 savings of 780,000 tonnes.

Name

VEKA Environmental Technology

Legal name

VEKA Umwelttechnik GmbH

Website

https://veka-umwelttechnik.de

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

VEKA Umwelttechnik GmbH is a German PVC recycler operating Europe's largest window and door recycling facility in Behringen, with sites in France and the UK. It serves 2,300+ window manufacturers, installers, and disposal firms via container pickup and four-stage mechanical processing into closed-loop regranulate.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

PVC Window and Door Recycling Services

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Materials Recovery Facilities (56292), Waste Collection (56211)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Post-Consumer Plastic Collection & Sorting (MRF/PRF, Bale Supply) (EUAIAKAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Plastic Recycling Equipment & Technology Providers (Sorting, Washing, Extrusion) (EUAIAKAM), Recycled Resin Trading & Distribution (PCR/PIR Commodity Markets) (EUAIAKAK)

Keywords

• PVC window recycling
• Plastic regranulate production
• Closed-loop PVC recovery
• Window profile disposal
• Industrial plastic compounding

Headquarters

HQ city

Hainichen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recycling Services for PVC Windows and Doors: Provides collection containers, pickup services, and recycling processing for window manufacturers, installers, and disposal companies. Revenue generated through service fees for material collection and processing, with materials converted into reusable PVC granules (regranulate) sold back to the industry.
2. PVC Regranulate/Compound Sales: Produces and sells high-quality PVC granules (VEKA Compounds) for extrusion of new window and door profiles. The closed-loop model enables recovered PVC to re-enter the production cycle as raw material.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

VEKA Environmental Technology operates an industrial-scale PVC window and door recycling service. The company deploys dedicated collection containers at partner sites, transports waste profiles to its TÜV-certified facility, and runs a four-stage recycling process that converts post-consumer PVC into VEKA Compounds (PVC regranulate) sold back to the window industry. Revenues are generated both through recycling service fees and through sale of the resulting regranulate.

Product overview

VEKA Umwelttechnik operates a comprehensive PVC recycling service for windows, doors, and roller shutters. The company provides collection containers (Gitterboxen, Kippmulden, Abrollcontainer) to partner businesses, arranges free pickup of full containers, and processes materials through a four-stage mechanical recycling process at their Behringen facility. The output is VEKA Compounds, high-quality PVC regranulate used in new window profile extrusion. The company serves over 2,300 window manufacturers and disposal companies across Europe at three locations (Germany, France, UK). Annual processing capacity exceeds 50,000 tonnes. The recycling process achieves material reuse up to ten times without quality loss, enabling approximately 350 years effective product lifespan.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• VEKA Compounds: Produces and supplies rigid PVC granules for extrusion, created from recycled PVC materials processed at VEKA Umwelttechnik's facilities.

Products and services

• VEKA Compounds (PVC Regranulate) Recycled PVC regranulate produced at the Behringen facility from post-consumer PVC window and door profiles, sold back into the window industry for use in new profile extrusion. The product supports documented CO2 savings versus virgin PVC production.
• PVC Window and Door Recycling Service End-to-end closed-loop recycling of post-consumer PVC window and door profiles for window manufacturers, housing companies, and disposal/demolition firms across Europe. The service deploys dedicated collection containers, transports material to the Behringen facility, and processes it through a four-stage certified recycling operation that has handled more than 500,000 tonnes of input material.
• Collection Container Pickup Service Scheduled pickup and replacement of dedicated collection containers containing post-consumer PVC window scrap from customer sites across Germany, with pickup requests handled via an online portal.
• Acceptance Specifications Service Formal acceptance specifications (Annahmespezifikation) defining the types, grades, and conditions of PVC window and door scrap the facility will accept, used by partner businesses to qualify and prepare their waste material for delivery.
• Recovery Documentation (Verwertungsnachweis) Formal recovery and recycling documentation issued by VEKA Environmental Technology to partners, providing tonnage-based proof of material recycling for regulatory and sustainability reporting.

Quantifiable outcome

• 780,000 tons CO2 emissions saved through recycling operations
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Rewindo GmbHcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2002VEKA AG was a founding shareholder of Rewindo GmbH in 2002 as part of a joint initiative by leading German PVC profile manufacturers to promote PVC recycling in Germany.
• Plastics Recyclers EuropeminorOthersEuropean organization representing plastic recyclers at industry level and with leading industry organizations. VEKA Umwelttechnik is a member, contributing to circular economy advocacy and promoting high-quality plastic recyclate use.
• VEKA CompoundscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRelated entity within VEKA Group that produces and delivers PVC granules for extrusion. VEKA Compounds produces and supplies hard PVC granules for profile extrusion using modern technologies, closing the material loop.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Stena Recycling: Northern European recycling group handling end-of-life building materials, metals, and plastics with collection and processing infrastructure comparable to VEKA's pan-European servicing model, representing an adjacent incumbent competing for similar customer relationships.
• Veolia Environnement: Global waste management and recycling incumbent with broad plastics recycling capabilities and EU-wide collection infrastructure, serving as a broader incumbent that could scale into dedicated PVC window recycling if it became economically attractive.
• Suez SA: Major European environmental services and recycling company operating materials recovery facilities across multiple countries; an incumbent with overlapping capabilities in plastics recovery and recycling services targeting construction and demolition waste.
• Renewi plc: European waste-to-product company with plastics recycling operations across the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, providing comparable materials recovery services in geographies overlapping with VEKA's UK and continental European footprint.

Direct peers

• Rewindo GmbH: German industry initiative founded in 2002 by leading PVC profile manufacturers (including VEKA AG) specifically to collect and recycle post-consumer PVC windows. Operates the same circular-economy model and competes directly for the same European PVC window scrap feedstock pool.
• MTM Plastics: German specialist recycler of mixed post-consumer and post-industrial plastics using multi-stage separation processes, directly competing for European plastic scrap supply and offering comparable high-purity recyclate output to compounders and extruders.
• Profine GmbH: Major German PVC profile manufacturer (KBE, KÖMMERLING, TROCAL brands) with in-house recycling operations and window take-back programs, directly competing for the same PVC window scrap supply and downstream regranulate demand that VEKA Umwelttechnik serves.
• MBA Polymers: Large-scale post-consumer plastics recycler operating in Europe that competes for mixed plastic streams and applies advanced sorting/quality-control technology comparable to VEKA's four-stage mechanical recycling approach.

Emerging players

• APK AG: German advanced plastics recycler (Newcycling technology) targeting multi-layer films and mixed streams, representing a technology-adjacent peer that could expand into rigid PVC recycling and compete with VEKA's four-stage process for similar feedstocks.
• aluplast GmbH: European PVC window profile manufacturer with sustainability/recycling initiatives that compete for both upstream scrap supply and downstream demand from window producers, representing an adjacent peer in the same PVC window value chain.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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