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WHO WE ARE
The guiding principle of our day-to-day endeavours is our high quality standard. Through innovation and discipline, we supply you with the safest and most modern products. We impress with sophisticated, customised solutions and fast, customer-oriented service. We act with foresight, providing support without ifs and buts – always exactly where help is needed. With our down-to-earth corporate philosophy, we also cultivate an open dialogue with partners and employees.
OUR
VISION & VALUES
As a family-run company, visions and values are particularly important to us: for generations, they have formed the basis for trusting cooperation and our entrepreneurial success. They are the bond that unites all STUMMER employees into a strong team.
- Honesty and reliability Honesty, transparency and fairness in communication are important principles for us. We always provide timely and open information, are reliable and keep our promises. In this way, we create the basis for efficient action and target-orientated decisions.
- Trust and respect Praise and recognition make us strong, efficient and self-confident. That is why we show attention and appreciation to every individual – regardless of their national or ethnic origin, gender, religion, age, disability or private lifestyle. We regard the diversity of people and cultures in our company as an enrichment. And we assume that everyone’s actions, insights and statements are correct and true.
- Social, ecological and cultural responsibility: We are committed to charitable projects, support voluntary work by our employees wherever possible, train and educate young people and train older people with regard to new developments. We also promote the cultural characteristics of the countries in which we operate: Art, music, sports, literature, traditions and faith are important components of quality of life for us. However, we also pay particular attention to protecting our environment. Our activities in this area can be found in the Sustainability section.
SUSTAINABILITY
A fundamental principle of our corporate policy is to preserve nature and biodiversity for future generations. For this reason, we do not use fossil fuels at our site. Gas and oil have been replaced by district heating from biomass, electricity is 100 per cent self-generated via a photovoltaic system and stored in our buffer storage or fed into the grid. We have set up charging stations for cars and lorries, and all light fittings have been replaced with LEDs. Thermal insulation has also been installed. We have also brought our paint shop up to date and fitted it with a heat recovery system – and many other measures have been implemented to make our contribution to climate protection and resource conservation.
Management
BRIEF PORTRAIT
Johann Streif has been Managing Director at STUMMER since 1986 and basically oversees all business areas. He has a particular passion for sales and the development of new innovative products, such as the recyclables scanner. Always true to the motto: visions should be followed by action, he has already driven forward H2 drives and e-mobility with STUMMER. His goal: to reduce CO2 in the collection of waste and recyclable materials and to achieve the most closed-loop economy possible.
Robert Streif has been with the company since 2016. After studying economics and law, specialising in strategic corporate management, he is now responsible for production planning, exports and human resources. He is particularly interested in the further development of the company and its employees. His topics: Sustainable living, renewable energy and not wasting resources.
Sylvia Kain has a passion for numbers. Since June 1991, the trained office administrator has been responsible for accounting at STUMMER – bookkeeping and the extensive range of payroll services. Her vision for a clean future: that STUMMER’s products contribute to a clean environment in such a way that the 50+ generation can leave their children and grandchildren an environment worth living in.
Sylvia Kain, CFO (Middle)
Robert Streif, COO (Right)
A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
OUR COMPANY HISTORY
For centuries, our urban ancestors threw their household rubbish out of the window or, as in Vienna for example, into the nearest river. But because this literally stank to high heaven, from the 19th century onwards they collected their rubbish in pits behind the house, which were emptied by a private carter as required. It was not until the end of the 19th century that there was a kind of regular rubbish collection service, initially still using horse-drawn carts. The first steps towards sophisticated technology, such as that used in today’s waste collection vehicles, were not taken until the 1930s in the German city of Mainz.
Nothing less than a small revolution…
… was triggered in 1938 by a workshop foreman employed by the city of Mainz: With a clever idea and technical knowledge, Hans Zöller developed a device that from then on mechanised the lifting of waste bins for emptying. This was a huge relief for the refuse collection workers, as the bins, which were often filled with glowing ash from the coal-fired ovens, were made of metal, weighed up to 60 kilograms and had no wheels – making it a back-breaking job to lift them one by one over many hours.
In the same year, Hans Zöller applied for a patent for his “bin tipper” – but it was another nine years before he founded his own company with 20 employees in Mainz-Laubenheim in 1947, today’s ZÖLLER-KIPPER GmbH. Word of the innovative waste disposal solutions developed here quickly spread and the company grew rapidly.
Waste in fashion: the waste market is booming
One of the many reasons for Zöller’s success was its good timing, as the economic miracle in the 1950s and 1960s also saw a change in consumer behaviour: instead of buying unpackaged items from the corner shop, people were increasingly turning to plastic-wrapped goods in the supermarket. In addition, more and more households were using central heating, which meant there was no longer any need to burn waste in coal stoves. The product of these changes was the large waste container (MGB) made of pure plastic. Empty, it weighed just six kilograms instead of 25 kilograms. At the same time, the capacity of the new containers increased from a maximum of 110 litres to 240 litres, which in turn meant adapting the waste collection vehicles.
In the middle of this busy phase, Hans Zöller passed away – from then on, the company management was in the hands of his daughter Helga Schulz-Zöller. She changed the legal form of the company from a partnership to a limited company and had a modified tipping device developed for the large refuse container (MGB).
Universal waste: international markets
Meanwhile, in Bischofshofen, the Streif family had already been manufacturing road sweepers and refuse lorry bodies since the end of the 1960s. And in Bad Ischl, the brothers Franz and Ludwig Stummer founded a company for municipal technology in 1970. Their special hydraulic swivelling devices for lorries helped the brothers achieve their entrepreneurial breakthrough. In 1986, the Stummer Brothers from Bad Ischl took over large parts of Streif Kommunaltechnik and in the mid-1990s finally embarked on an expansion course in southern and south-eastern Europe. The company found a strong partner for this in ZÖLLER-KIPPER, which at the same time was looking for expertise in refuse collection vehicles.
After ZÖLLER-KIPPER joined STUMMER, a close-knit service and sales network was established in Eastern Europe. This was followed by expansion into China from 1998 to 2001 with deliveries of over 200 refuse collection vehicles. Finally, in 2002, the Swiss market was also evaluated – together with Contena-Ochsner, STUMMER is now the market leader in Switzerland, as well as in Slovenia, Croatia and, of course, Austria.
Outlook: Today for tomorrow
In recent years, the issue of sustainability has become increasingly pressing. STUMMER is making a decisive contribution to a clean future, for example, by developing waste collection vehicles with alternative drive systems in the field of electromobility or with hydrogen fuel cells. The founding of SCANTEC GmbH with products such as SMART SCAN for the digital detection of contaminants and recyclable materials can also optimise waste separation and thus improve recycling rates, among other things. The aim is to Within the next ten years, to equip at least every second vehicle with a scanner so that recyclable materials can be fed back into the cycle and resources are conserved.
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