SULO Umwelttechnik GmbH
Since 2018, the SULO brand has been synonymous with the combined heritage and expertise of the French and German waste disposal industries. This completed a process that began back in 2007 with the merger between SULO and Plastic Omnium. United by their common goal of protecting and conserving the environment for future generations, the French and German cultures of environmental and waste management have grown closer together over time. As an enlightened 21st-century company, we take responsibility for our environment and the people we work with ? our customers, employees and partners. Both of these aspects ? the ecological and the collaborative ? form the inextricable core of the SULO vision and are the driving force behind our everyday work and passion.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Waste Management
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
About Us
Choosing SULO as a uniform brand name in 2018 emphatically underlined the company’s desire to be a pioneer in the modern circular economy. Today, SULO is a world-class partner to companies, communities, organisations and private individuals who actively want to help create a clean and liveable future.
The company can trace its roots back to Union Mutuelle des Propriétaires Lyonnais in 1875. In 1946, Pierre Burelle founded the modern Plastic Omnium, an innovative plastic processing company that remains one of France’s foremost employers.
In 1972, the company produced its first two-wheeled waste bin at its production site in Langres. This was followed by the four-wheeled bin in 1980, and the digital networking of bins in 2003. In the same year, the company began its commitment to the UN Global Compact. The aim of this project is to help companies develop in a sustainable and environmentally-friendly way. By the time of the merger in 2007, the company’s specialist waste disposal subsidiary Plastic Omnium Environment had established an unparalleled range of services, particularly for French municipalities, and was by far France’s leading provider in this area, producing 2,000,000 bins each year.
INNOVATION IS OUR COMMON DNA
History shows that, for decades, Plastic Omnium Environment in France and SULO in Germany have been pursuing the same goal: to steadily revolutionise waste disposal with innovative solutions. Bringing this potential together to create a world-renowned brand that uses creativity and sound judgement to help develop the circular economy across all continents offers even greater promise.
THE GERMAN BRANCH OF THE FAMILY TREE: SULO
When Friedrich Streuber founded SULO in the town of Herford in 1892, he had no idea that his successors would go down in history as the pioneers of modern waste disposal 80 years later. The patented comb bar enabled bins to be emptied mechanically for the first time, relieving the burden on refuse collectors like never before.
The introduction of the modern four-wheeled MGB in 1980 was a similarly groundbreaking moment. A decade later, SULO set new standards in its role as a waste disposal pioneer by introducing state-of-the-art identification and weighing technology.
Mission, Vision & Values
- We want to offer our customers the most attractive range of products and services
- We want to anticipate our customers’ needs and respond to them with groundbreaking innovations
- We want to offer powerful presorting solutions so that our customers can achieve their recycling goals
- We want to impress our customers with relevant, personalised service
- We want to communicate clearly at all times and with all stakeholders
to be pioneers for a clean and liveable world.
Our collaborative goal:
to be a first-class partner for innovative sorting solutions.
Everything we do, we do for people. Everything we do is only as good as the people behind our products and services. That’s why our main concern is to create the ideal conditions for an active, performance-enhancing SULO culture. Appreciation and advancement are the twin poles of our value scale:
Care and responsibility
Taking responsibility means feeling personally responsible for employees, customers and the environment and respecting the agreed rules.
Innovation and customer focus
To meet our customers’ needs, we first need to identify them. Being able to make decisions independently and be open to improvements and new solutions is also essential.
Excellence and engagement
Having high standards means constantly striving for the best possible results and being personally committed to achieving them with expertise, experience and empathy.
Team and trust
A culture of trust is formed when the individuals within a team are transparent, cooperative and reliable at all times.
- Conserve natural resources, avoiding the use of fossil resources almost completely
- Conserve natural resources, avoiding the use of fossil resources almost completely
- Reduce CO2 footprint to almost zero
- Completely avoid wastefulness and waste (particularly plastic)
- 100 % recycling rate in closed reusable material cycle
- Composition of materials
100% recycled material, at least 80 % post-consumer recycled material - Quantity of materials
Savings made by ECO-design, optimised body, lightweight fully-certified SULO-quality bins - Production
Maximum energy efficiency in accordance with ISO 50001 - Production with 100 % green electricity
Innovative, resource-saving processes such as multi-sequential gating - Transport
Stackability and reduced weight of MGBs means lower fuel consumption and use of space - Digital delivery route and container management
Optimised routes, fewer empty runs
People have a growing need for effective environmental and climate protection. As a result, the systematic reduction of our CO2 footprint is becoming an increasingly important topic for every company and community.