On Friday 10 September 2010, we welcomed the Mayor and City Council of Eisenberg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addition to visiting the "Straubinger" blending plant, near Moschheim and the central maintenance workshop, they gained a deep insight into our "Hohewiese" and "Petschmorgen" quarries.

In recent years, Sibelco’s “Talstraße” quarry in Eisenberg has been increasingly backfilled to bring forward the recultivation process and transfer this location to follow-up use. The visit enabled the City Council members to personally appreciate different examples of finished recultivation and how each example influences the appearance of the landscape.

Sibelco Deutschland is well-known for its success in environmental work for which it has received a wide range of awards. It is the aim of the company and every employee to minimise the effect of our operations on the environment. This is a clear demonstration of our sense of responsibility to the communities in which we operate, and protection of the environment is fundamental to our operating principles.

 

Later on our guests were given an insight into the production of dry and wet prepared bodies at the modern Sibelco Deutschland processing plants in Ransbach-Baumbach and Höhr-Grenzhausen.

Of course, a visit to the “Westerwald Tonbergbau Museum” which shows the procedures of clay mining from historical to current times was also included. The museum combines the past and the present, beginning from the origin of the clay deposits and culminating with today's modern and environmentally friendly mining methods.

Because of Sibelco Deutschland’s clay mining activities around Eisenberg, the company enjoys a long-standing and deep cooperation with that community, which both parties wish to expand.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pic.1: Westerwald Tonbergbau Museum                                          Pic. 2: Recultivation: Natural lake