In Dijon, Eqiom wants to recycle more construction waste
Posted Oct 16, 2022 12:38 PM
Eqiom (formerly Holcim France), the manufacturer of concrete, cement and aggregates, wants to ramp up its platform dedicated to the circular economy in Dijon. Resulting from a partnership, in 2018, between Eqiom and the construction group Colas, the site specializes in the recycling of materials from public works and building sites. For the time being, it processes 40,000 tons of products per year.
“We could very quickly double this capacity. The platform is progressing very quickly,” Myriam Peltier, head of the Eqiom Granulats agency, recently told France Bleu Bourgogne. The Dijon unit receives concrete or asphalt rubble from worksites in the region. Once sorted and crushed, they can be reused as backfill for earthworks and, for some months now, as materials for ready-mixed concrete. “The level of product quality is systematically checked”, explains the manager.
120 employees
Eqiom employs 120 people in Côte-d’Or, including 70 in the aggregates subsidiary. At the national level, the group, which has 1,500 employees, processes more than 570,000 tonnes of waste from the construction industry.
“The quarries and construction materials sector is not part of the equation and is on the verge of achieving its European objectives for recycling rubble. It is now aiming for a record level of 90% in 2025. This ambitious project would cover 30% of the aggregate needs of building players in France,” the group stated last March during the inauguration of its Gennevilliers platform. (Hauts-de-Seine), also dedicated to the recovery of materials, but also to the management of polluted land.
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