What Richi AG does

Richi AG is a 100% family-owned Swiss integrated construction materials and waste management company headquartered in Weiningen, Canton Zurich, serving the Limmattal region. Founded in 1924 and operating today with approximately 160 employees across four wholly-owned subsidiaries (Richi Bau AG, EZR AG, Entsorgungszentrum Richi Weiningen AG, Richi Immobilien AG), the company runs five operational divisions: gravel/concrete/containers (KBM), excavation/demolition/contaminated site remediation (ARA), recycling and disposal, crane and special transport services, and a biomass power plant with district heating. The single Weiningen site processes approximately 200,000 tonnes of material annually, including 23,000 tonnes of waste wood feeding a 17,500 MWh/year biomass power plant certified with the naturemade star label, with district heating supplied to ~25,000 m2 of greenhouses and the Limmattaler Fernwärmenetz municipal network.

The company's underlying technology stack is industrial and physical rather than digital, anchored by Switzerland-unique wet washing (Nasswaschtechnik) for gravel processing with closed zero-discharge water cycles, dual aggregate processing lines handling natural and recycled materials, a 150 m3/hour concrete plant using ECO cement, Treppenrostfeuerung biomass combustion at up to 1,000°C driving a 3.2 MW turbine, and a rotary kiln thermal soil remediation system heated to ~700°C using biomass plant waste gases. Notable proprietary offerings include A.RO.MA. (a partnership with Jura-Cement-Fabriken to substitute contaminated excavation material into cement kiln feedstock at 100% recovery), a temporary bridge system (Hilfsbrücken) with 40-tonne load capacity, and mobile cranes up to 350 tonnes reaching over 100 meters. Pricing is quote-based for B2B contracts and unit-based for materials, with a 2026 price list published as a PDF rather than publicly transparent pricing.

Richi generates revenue through transactional fees on construction waste processing and recycling (achieving 85-100% recycling rates), unit pricing on gravel/concrete/container sales, one-time project fees for excavation, demolition, and crane/special transport services, and hardware-equivalent sales of eco-electricity and district heating from the biomass plant. The go-to-market is sales-led and field-based, with six dedicated division heads (Bereichsleiters) maintaining direct relationships with regional construction firms, municipalities, and private clients. Disposal fees are charged for incoming waste streams while recycled aggregates and ECO concrete are sold as outputs, closing an economic loop that turns waste into primary revenue and minimizes external input costs.

Name

Richi AG

Legal name

Richi AG

Website

https://richi-weiningen.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

1924

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Richi AG is a 100% family-owned Swiss construction materials and waste management company, founded 1924 in Weiningen, operating gravel, concrete, demolition, recycling, crane, and biomass energy divisions serving construction firms, municipalities, and private clients across the Limmattal region with ~160 employees and 200,000 tonnes annual material throughput.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Materials and Waste Management Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Treatment and Disposal (5622)

SIC

Hazardous Waste Management (4955)

akta.pro primary industry

Concrete & Asphalt Recycling (RCA/RAP) (BPALAJAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

C&D Waste Collection, Hauling & Container Services (Roll-off/Dumpsters) (EUAIAHAA)

Keywords

• Construction materials supply
• Construction waste recycling
• Excavation demolition services
• Biomass power generation
• Mobile crane services

Headquarters

HQ city

Weiningen

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Kies Beton Mulden (Gravel Concrete Containers): Supply of construction materials including gravel, concrete, and container/mulden services for waste disposal. Regional supplier model with material delivery to construction sites.
2. Aushub Rückbau Altlasten (Excavation Demolition Contaminated Sites): Full-service excavation, building demolition, and contaminated site remediation. Includes earthworks, construction pit excavation, demolitions, deconstructions, contaminated material handling and remediation.
3. Recycling & Entsorgungen (Recycling Disposal Services): Construction waste sorting, processing, and recycling. Produces high-quality recycled construction materials. Includes special waste sorting, construction waste processing, cement plant raw material substitution (A.RO.MA.), and topsoil processing. 85-100% recycling rates achieved.
4. Krane Spezialtransporte (Crane Special Transport Services): Mobile cranes up to 350 tonnes lifting capacity reaching over 100 meters height, special transport services with vehicles up to 50 tonnes payload and 30 meter loading lengths, exceptional transport escort services, and temporary bridge systems.
5. Biomassekraftwerk (Biomass Power Plant): Generates revenue from sale of eco-electricity (up to 17,500 MWh/year) and district heating. Power plant operates 24/7, 7 days per week. Certified with 'naturemade star' label for ecological value. Receives approximately 23,000 tonnes of waste wood annually from regional sources.
6. A.RO.MA. (Alternative Raw Material for Cement Works): Partnership with Jura-Cement-Fabriken to convert contaminated excavation and demolition material into raw material substitute for cement production at the Wildegg plant. 100% material recovery achieved. Saves both landfill volume and quarry volume.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Richi AG is a regional construction and waste management company providing integrated materials and services across the construction lifecycle. Core offerings include extraction and processing of gravel and concrete (KBM division), excavation, demolition, and contaminated site remediation (ARA division), construction waste recycling and sorting (Recycling & Entsorgungen), mobile cranes up to 350 tonnes and special transports including temporary bridge systems, and biomass power generation producing CO2-neutral electricity and district heating from waste wood.

Product overview

Richi AG is a family-owned construction and waste management company (founded 1924, 100% family-owned since 2009) offering integrated services across the construction and materials lifecycle. The company operates as a multi-division platform with five main business units: Kies Beton Mulden (KBM) providing gravel, concrete, and container services; Aushub Rückbau Altlasten (ARA) for excavation, demolition, and contaminated site remediation; Recycling & Entsorgungen for construction waste processing and sorting; Krane & Spezialtransporte for crane hire, special transport, temporary bridge systems, and exceptional transport escort services; and Biomassekraftwerk for biomass power generation, district heating, and thermal soil remediation. The divisions operate as a unified system to close material cycles, with waste from demolition being processed into recycled aggregates for new concrete production, and the biomass power plant utilizing waste wood to generate electricity while providing district heating. The company employs approximately 150-160 staff and processes approximately 200,000 tonnes of material annually.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kies Beton Mulden (KBM): Regional construction material supplier and waste disposal service offering gravel, concrete, and container services
• Aushub Rückbau Altlasten (ARA)
• Recycling & Entsorgungen
• Krane & Spezialtransporte
• Biomassekraftwerk
• Richi Bau AG
• EZR AG
• Entsorgungszentrum Richi Weiningen AG
• Richi Immobilien AG

Products and services

• Kies (Gravel) Gravel extraction and processing using modern wet-washing technology unique in Switzerland, producing high-quality construction aggregates from both natural/primary gravel and mixed demolition rubble for regional construction projects.
• Beton (Concrete) Concrete production facility with two mixers capable of producing 150 m³ per hour of primary and recycled concrete, using recycled aggregates and ECO cement, for regional construction companies.
• Mulden (Container/Skip Services) Container and skip rental services ranging from mini-containers to large rolltainers for construction and private waste disposal, with delivery and collection using 2, 3, and 4-axle trucks with crane capabilities.
• Aushub (Excavation) Excavation services including building pits, earthworks, reclamations, shaping, filling, pit enclosures, shotcrete walls, nail and anchor technology, micropiles, and water management for construction companies.
• Rückbau (Demolition) Building and infrastructure demolition services including complete demolition of structures, bridge demolition, clearing, and site clearance with trained personnel sorting construction waste on-site.
• Altlasten (Contaminated Site Remediation) Safe handling and remediation of contaminated sites in collaboration with professional site management, implementing required methodologies with appropriate machinery.
• Bauschuttaufbereitung (Construction Waste Processing) Processing of construction waste from buildings, roads and other structures with classification, foreign matter removal, crushing, screening or washing to produce clean concrete, mixed or pavement aggregates with 100% recycling rate.
• Bausperrgutsortierung (Construction Site Waste Sorting) Processing of construction site waste by trained recyclers using trommel screens, magnets, wind sifters, water baths and manual sorting belts, achieving 85% recycling rate.
• A.RO.MA. (Alternative Raw Material for Cement) Alternative raw material service for cement plants in collaboration with Jura-Cement factories, where contaminated excavation and demolition material is prepared for use as raw material substitute in cement production at the Wildegg plant, achieving 100% recycling.
• Oberbodenaufbereitung (Topsoil Processing) Production of various products for garden and landscape construction using greenhouse facilities to create perfectly processable materials regardless of weather conditions.
• Krane (Mobile Cranes) Mobile crane services with lifting capacities up to 350 tonnes and heights over 100 meters, including pneumatic cranes, mobile construction cranes, and truck cranes for construction sites.
• Spezialtransporte (Special Transports) Special vehicle and semi-trailer transport services with up to 50 tonnes payload capacity and loading lengths up to 30 meters for heavy and oversized equipment and materials.
• Hilfsbrücken (Temporary Bridge Systems) Self-supporting, connectable roadway elements (System RUB) with load capacities up to 40 tonnes without restriction, available in various spans (4.50 to 27.00 meters) and widths (3.00 to 10.00 meters) for temporary road access.
• Ausnahmetransportbegleit (Exceptional Transport Escort) Nationwide exceptional transport escort services with specially trained personnel holding police authorization, in collaboration with Kantonspolizei Zürich and ASTAG.
• Ökostrom Produktion (Eco-Electricity Production) Biomass power plant producing up to 17,500 MWh of eco-electricity annually from waste wood, equivalent to approximately 3,000 households, certified with naturemade star label.
• Fernwärme (District Heating) District heating system utilizing cooling water from turbines at 50 degrees, supplying heat to greenhouses and the Limmattal district heating network, heating approximately 25,000 m² of greenhouses.
• Thermische Bodensanierung (Thermal Soil Remediation) Thermal soil remediation using a rotary kiln heated to approximately 700 degrees, decontaminating soil contaminated with organic materials and allowing reuse in construction material production.

Quantifiable outcome

• 200,000 tonnes of material processed annually
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• AxpominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 September 2021Axpo featured as a green electricity producer with entrepreneurial spirit in a September 2021 profile article. Axpo likely serves as a key customer or off-taker for the biomass power plant's eco-electricity production, given their role as a Swiss energy company.
• Jura-Cement-Fabriken AGcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership to convert contaminated excavation and demolition material into raw material substitute (A.RO.MA. - Alternatives Rohmaterial Zementwerk) for cement production at the Wildegg plant. Material is processed at Richi's Weiningen disposal center and prepared for use as raw material replacement at the cement works. Achieves 100% material recovery. Reduces both landfill volume and quarry volume (less marl extraction needed). Schadstoffe (contaminants) are destroyed in the cement kiln and the material becomes new cement.
• Limmattaler FernwärmenetzcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDistrict heating network supplying heat energy from Richi's biomass plant to multiple municipalities in the Limmattal region. Heat recovered from turbine cooling system (50-degree water) is distributed via pipeline to municipal heat consumers. Major heat consumers also include the two greenhouses on the Richi site.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves17 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• KIBAG HOLDING AG: Swiss family-owned construction materials and recycling group operating gravel pits, concrete plants, excavation, and C&D waste recycling across multiple Swiss regions. Operates a similar integrated materials-plus-waste platform, making it the closest analogue to Richi's Limmattal business.
• Felbermayr Group: Austrian-headquartered crane and heavy-transport group with similar services (high-capacity cranes, special transport, lifting/heavy-haul solutions). Comparable to Richi's crane division at a larger DACH scale.
• Walo Bertschinger AG: Swiss construction group with activities in civil engineering, materials, and site services. Operates as another vertically integrated Swiss construction and materials platform, broadly comparable to Richi's ARA and KBM divisions.
• Eberhard Bau AG: Swiss construction and recycling group combining excavation, demolition, gravel, concrete, and C&D waste processing with circular-economy positioning. Mirrors Richi's Aushub/Recycling divisions on a larger regional footprint.
• Marti Gruppe (Marti Bauunternehmung AG): Major Swiss construction group with own materials, recycling, and logistics capabilities across multiple divisions. Comparable on integrated construction-plus-materials service delivery to regional and infrastructure clients.
• Emil Egger AG: Swiss crane hire, heavy haul, and special-transport provider. Directly comparable to Richi's Krane & Spezialtransporte division on fleet scale (multi-hundred-tonne cranes, oversized transport escort).
• Weiacher Kies AG: Regional Zurich-area gravel and concrete producer with recycling operations. Smaller and more narrowly focused than Richi, but directly comparable on the Kies Beton Mulden core.

Broad incumbents

• Holcim (Schweiz) AG: Swiss-based global building materials leader with cement, aggregates, ready-mix, and recycling operations including Demeter-style recycled aggregates. Functions as the upstream partner/customer relationship that defines Richi's A.RO.MA. off-take, and a broad incumbent in the same Swiss aggregate market.
• Implenia AG: Switzerland's largest construction and real-estate services group, with materials, civil engineering, and tunneling capabilities. Operates as a broad incumbent in the same end-markets but does not specialize in the Limmattal integrated materials/recycling niche.

Regional players

• Rohrdorfer Gruppe: Austrian/German building-materials group combining cement, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, and recycled construction materials. Comparable integrated materials-and-recycling model but in a different (DACH non-Swiss) geography.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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