[...]On July 25, the first HUBER Cycle Day, no fewer than 85 of our staff came to work on their bicycles. HUBER set up the Cycle Day to point its employees to a good but often forgotten alternative to driving by car. "Our employees drive 16,000 kilometres by car a day to come to work and back home, riding by bike is a possibility to do something for one's health and for the environment", explained Dr. Johann Grienberger. He himself pedalled the 22 kilometres way from home to Erasbach. The company invests 50 Cent per cycled kilometre, i.e. a total of € 992, into the further forestation of the HUBER-Natur-Park[...]
[...]It was just on April 1 that we could celebrate the signing of the 1000th Service and Maintenance Contract with a sewage treatment plant in Germany! The plant is located in Jagstzell, a municipality in the Ostalbkreis, a district in the east of Baden-Württemberg. Over the years, HUBER Service and Maintenance Contracts have developed to become a worldwide highly demanded service product of the HUBER Global Service. Today, such contracts exist for more than 2,500 machines and plants in Germany alone. The municipality of Jagstzell also decided recently to make use of the extensive benefits of a [...]
[...]"What drives me every day? Bringing the best technologies for wastewater and sludge treatment to Brazil” Lucas Funari works at HUBER do Brasil, the Brazilian subsidiary of HUBER SE, and has been supporting the Americas Sales team at the headquarters in Berching since September 2021. In the interview, he talks about his work at HUBER, what drives him as a real nature lover in his daily work and what it is like to work for a globally active company with a history of over 150 years. In addition, he gives private insights and explains his “preference” for the cold German winter and why he is particularly[...]
[...]In the Colombian city Medellín the new sewage treatment plant Bello (pronounced Bejo ) is presently under construction. The plant is designed for 2.75 million PE and a capacity of 6.5 m³/s. To treat the sewage sludge that is generated on site the environmental company in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria installed the well-proven HUBER Belt Dryer BT for this international mega project. A daily amount of 400 tons of dewatered sewage sludge is generated in Bello, of which approximately 310 tons are produced on site and another 90 tons come from a second sewage treatment plant in the city centre of [...]
[...]On 22nd November, the UmweltCluster symposium on sewage sludge disposal and phosphorus recovery took place on the premises of HUBER SE in Berching. HUBER organised the event together with UmweltCluster Bayern e.V. - a Bavarian environmental collaboration initiative - and German Phosphorus-Platform DPP. The disposal of the sewage sludge that is generated from wastewater treatment in Germany costs about 500 million Euro per year. Up to now, sewage sludge disposal has meant that the sludge is either utilised as fertilizer being spread onto agricultural land or used for landscaping, or incinerated[...]
[...]HUBER SE recently organised the 1st HUBER Milk Day in cooperation with the dairy company Jäger GmbH. Nearly 50 representatives from the dairy industry came to inform themselves about the subject wastewater directly at Milchwerk Jäger GmbH at Haag near Munich. After the welcoming speeches of the companies participating, Mr. Alvaro Carozzi from the engineering office Steinle at Weyarn explained the fundamentals of wastewater treatment and the general process technologies. Beside legislation topics, he placed the focus on typical methods applied to treat dairy wastewater. HUBER SE informed then [...]
[...]In this unprecedented situation as COVID-19 continues to spread around the world, the safety of our employees, their families, our clients and business partners is a top priority. In view of the rapidly changing environment, we are constantly monitoring, tracking and complying with all official guidelines to protect people and contain the pandemic. Based on this information, we make timely decisions to ensure that we can continue to operate as a company to meet the needs of our clients. We have initiated measures both at HUBER SE and in our subsidiaries to minimize the risk of infection for our [...]
[...]A sewage treatment plant is under construction in Egypt, in the east of the Suez Canal, for the treatment of wastewater and agricultural wastewater from the sewer system Bahr El-Baqar. To ease the water shortage in the Sinai region, the clarified water will be returned to the El-Salam canal and serve for the irrigation of agricultural land on the Sinai Peninsula. With a total capacity of 5 million m³ per day, this plant will be the biggest water treatment plant in the world. Huge amounts of sludge are generated in the different treatment processes on the wastewater treatment plant. This sludge will[...]
[...]At the IFAT 2016 that took place in Munich from 30th May to 3rd June the HUBER group successfully presented its complete range of products and fields of application. With an exhibition stand of more than 1,100 m² HUBER presented a wide selection from its present product range and, moreover, a large number of innovations and improvements. Numerous visitors from all over the world took this opportunity to get an idea of our extensive business spectrum, innovative products and future-orientated solutions. We would like to use this opportunity to cordially thank all our visitors for their interest and[...]