Company portrait of the AVE Group

Top Performances for Man and Environment

The AVE Group - wholly-owned subsidiary of Energie AG Upper Austria, a corporate group of infrastructure companies - is one of the market's leading corporate groups for waste management in Central and Eastern Europe. Innovative and investment strength make AVE a powerful partner for municipal and private customers. With its strategic business units "Municipal Services", "Waste Management and Reprocessing", "Recyclable Waste Management and Return Systems", "Hazardous Wastes and Industrial Cleaning", "Area Surrounding Construction Sites, Abandoned Hazardous Sites and Residual Materials Management" plus "Carcass Processing and Biogenic Wastes", AVE appears on the international waste market as a full-range supplier. 

8 Countries - One Strong Brand AVE

A comprehensive strategy of internationalisation starting with the core market Austria, in which AVE is now the clear number 1, was introduced in 2004 and has been implemented successfully. Approximately 8 million people in Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, South Tyrol, Ukraine and Moldavia dispose of their waste in containers bearing AVE's red/white/red logo.

In recent years AVE has developed close partnerships in these countries with over 3,300 municipal authorities and waste management associations. Whole regions, such as Upper Austria, Salzburg, Burgenland (all in Austria), Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Somogy, (Hungary), Harhgita (Romania), Košice (Slovakia), Transcarpathia (Ukraine), plus countless cities, such as Prague, Brünn, Pilsen, Usti nad Labem, Kolin, Ostrau (all in the Czech Republic), Tatabanya, Miskolc, Siofok, Kaposvar, Debrecen (all in Hungary), Zalau, Cluj, Oradea (all in Romania) are currently involved in long-term, contractually secured partnerships with AVE. These strategic cooperation models (referred to as PPP models) between AVE and municipal waste managements have become one of the supporting pillars within the AVE Group and create a situation of long-term security for waste disposal coupled at the same time with steady prices for households. AVE has also established itself as a reliable partner in the creation of waste management capacities. Construction of new landfill sites, investments in reprocessing and recovery plants, setting up of collection systems, innovative recycling and recovery technologies and a state of the art vehicle pool are testament to the whole Group's clear environmental orientation.

In the meantime, in addition to municipal customers, around 85.000 commercial and industrial customers make use of AVE's know-how and the comprehensive range of services it offers. In this sector too, AVE positions itself as a long-term partner of corporate facility management. AVE's menu includes everything from innovative holistic solutions to what are referred to as total waste management models, including outsourcing of the whole of waste management process. As a result, AVE's customers achieve steady disposal costs based on the statutory framework conditions - in short: 100% security of disposal from an environmental and economic point of view.

The People Behind the Success

A team of over 5,200 employees in more than 150 locations at home and abroad forms the foundations of our success and they express AVE's philosophy: anyone who wants to reach the top must have strong regional roots.

Collection, Logistics, Reprocessing, Recovery and Disposal - A One-Stop Shop

AVE is the only fully integrated waste management company in Austria. This unique position as a full-range supplier is the basis for successful work with customers and the environment. AVE offers the entire range of services relating to the waste and recyclable waste market covering collection, logistics, reprocessing, recovery and disposal. The AVE Group's facility network at home and abroad creates the basis for this and facilitates waste treatment at the highest technical and environmental level. The thermal recovery plants in Austria (Wels and Lenzing with a total capacity of 600,000 tons per year) and the Czech Republic (Pardubice) in addition to 28 landfill sites, which meet strict EU standards, form the core of the facility network. Over 35 state of the art splitting and sorting plants in the countries covered by AVE ensure professional reprocessing of the waste and are the basic requirement for efficient cross-national management of material flows.

Quality as the Ultimate Ambition

Quality and safety have top priority at AVE. As a result, all locations of the AVE Group are certified to EN ISO 9001 and also bear the title "Certified specialist waste management company". Our certificates are a guarantee that all wastes are treated, recovered and disposed of professionally and we comply with statutory and environmental requirements.

SAP® Waste and Recycling, the IT industry solution specially developed for the waste management industry, was introduced successfully in 2007 to standardise the IT landscape and to support the international growth strategy. The next project phases will include the introduction of an integrated on-board computer solution and its implementation in all countries stage by stage.