Müller-Guttenbrunn Group · Amstetten, Austria · since 1954
Metal and electronics recycling with a depth of separation that is rare in Europe. 850,000 tonnes a year — dismantled, separated and returned to production.
Intake Mon–Thu from 7:00Dispatch direct: 07472 641 81-39ISO 9001 · 14001 · EN 50625-1
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01 — Buying
I need secondary raw materials
Ferrous scrap to the EU-27 grade list, non-ferrous concentrates, stainless steel, aluminium, copper, circuit boards and recycled plastics — in a consistent specification.
See the products02 — Deliveries
I have material to hand over
End-of-life vehicles, appliances, scrap metal — from a single washing machine to a block train. Intake times, directions and the dispatch number on one page.
See intake times03 — Careers
I am looking for a job
Apprenticeships, engineering, plant operation, laboratory and administration across four sites in Lower Austria. Family business in its fourth generation.
Open positionsWhat we do
Most operators shred and sell whatever the magnet gives them. We carry on from there: through air classifiers, eddy current separators, density separation, sensor sorting and plastics processing — until the mixture has become individual, tradable raw materials again. That is the difference between disposal and recycling.
Annual volume
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Metals and plastics we turn back into raw material every year.
Processed at four sites in Lower Austria and in five further countries. Figure given by the Müller-Guttenbrunn Group.
The group in figures
Four sites in Lower Austria, companies in five more countries and our own rail sidings, over which a growing share of volumes travels by rail rather than road.
1,000,000 t
CO₂ avoided as a result — the annual emissions of a city of around 130,000 people
130 trucks
in our own fleet, plus rail sidings and access to the Danube port
1954
founded in Waidhofen an der Ybbs — today in family hands in the fourth generation
Depth of recycling
Four stages, two sites, one material stream. What arrives as a vehicle leaves us as single-grade raw material.
Schematic view of the separation stages. Segment widths show the proportions between fractions, not guaranteed yields.
01 — Amstetten
Depollution
Fluids, battery, airbags, catalytic converter and tyres come out before anything is shredded. What is dangerous is removed first.
Hazardous substances captured separately
02 — Amstetten
Shredder
The body is broken down to fist-sized pieces. The magnet pulls out the iron — for most operators the process ends here.
Ferrous scrap to the EU-27 grade list
03 — Kematen/Ybbs
Non-ferrous separation at Metran
From what the magnet leaves behind we recover aluminium, copper, brass, stainless steel and zinc — fraction by fraction.
Non-ferrous concentrates in trading quality
04 — Kematen/Ybbs
Plastics at MGG Polymers
Even the remaining plastics are separated: by polymer type, washed, pelletised and returned into the production of new appliances.
ABS, PS and PP recyclates
Very few operators go this deep. End-of-life vehicles in detail
Why MGG
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Sensor technology separates fast, but not everything. Hazardous parts, circuit boards and anything carrying value or risk pass through the hands of people who know what they are looking at. It costs more, and it is the reason our fractions are clean.
02 / 03
Buyers of secondary raw materials calculate with analysis values. Our plants are built to hold the same specification across the year — not only in the batch that went into the sample. Certified to ISO 9001 and EN 50625-1.
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MGG Polymers recovers single-grade ABS, PS and PP from shredded electrical appliances, more than 20,000 tonnes a year. Only a handful of plants in Europe can do this at that quality. The pellets go back into new appliances.
A material that is burned or landfilled today is no longer available to any future generation.
Recycling services
End-of-life vehicles
Depollution, shredding and treatment under the End-of-Life Vehicles Ordinance — certificate of destruction included.
ViewWEEE
Initial treatment facility to EN 50625-1. From industrial cooling units to mobile phones.
ViewPhotovoltaic modules
CENELEC-certified module treatment directly in Amstetten.
ViewFerrous scrap
All common grades of the EU-27 steel scrap list, ex works or by rail.
ViewNon-ferrous scrap
Aluminium, copper, brass, zinc, stainless steel — sorted to trading quality.
ViewShredder residues
What would be landfill elsewhere is feedstock for our next separation stage.
ViewNot sure whether your material fits? Call us: +43 7472 64181-0
Locations
The roots are in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, the core of the processing in Amstetten and Kematen. The companies in Central and South-Eastern Europe work to the same standards as the parent plant.
Country borders from Natural Earth, true-to-scale Mercator projection.
In brief
The Müller-Guttenbrunn Group is an Austrian recycling company based in Amstetten, Lower Austria. It processes end-of-life vehicles, waste electrical and electronic equipment, photovoltaic modules, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, shredder residues and plastics, returning around 850,000 tonnes of secondary raw materials to production every year.
The company was founded in 1954 by Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn as an iron trading business in Waidhofen an der Ybbs and is run today as a family business in its fourth generation. The group comprises MGG Metrec, MGG Metran, MGG Polymers and Danubia Speicherei in Austria, together with companies in Germany, Czechia, Hungary and Romania and a trading operation in Switzerland.
Its defining feature is the depth of recycling: MGG separates material streams beyond the shredder into single-grade metal fractions and plastic recyclates. Its subsidiary MGG Polymers recovers single-grade ABS, PS and PP from electrical waste. The company is certified to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and EN 50625-1 and operates a certified photovoltaic module plant in Amstetten.
A quick question about material, volume or a delivery slot? You speak directly to dispatch in Amstetten.
07472 641 81-39Whether you are delivering material, buying secondary raw materials or need a disposal route for an entire plant — send us the details. We usually reply the same working day.