Econ Industries

Econ Industries Services GmbH, headquartered in Starnberg, Germany, is a specialized industrial technology company focused on recovering resources from hazardous waste and contaminated soil rather than disposing of it through incineration or landfilling. With over 20 years of experience and more than 30 plants built worldwide, the company's flagship technology is VacuDry — a vacuum thermal desorption process that separates harmful substances such as hydrocarbons and mercury under heat and vacuum in a fully encapsulated system. VacuDry is recognized by regulatory authorities worldwide as state-of-the-art for energy-efficient, low-emission waste treatment, offering superior resource recovery rates compared to conventional thermal methods. Econ Industries also developed the MMCU (Mobile Mercury Conversion Unit) for stabilizing elemental mercury, primarily serving the chlor-alkali industry, and the HTTU (High Temperature Treatment Unit), a continuous process designed for treating catalysts and activated carbon contaminated with mercury, mercury sulfide, sulfur, and hydrocarbons. The company serves the oil and gas sector (drill cuttings treatment, oily waste recovery), the metal industry (metal sludge recycling), the chlor-alkali industry (mercury stabilization), and site remediation (ex-situ soil cleaning). Through its Econeering division, the company provides consulting, design, research, development, and field testing services. Econ Industries markets its solutions as 'Made in Germany' and maintains an active international presence.