BIOTERRA NV – Investment plans 2023-2026

BIOTERRA aims to ensure its continued growth in the coming years with a complementary business model.

Through an investment of €15 million, an adjacent 4.5 ha site will be set up for the production and use of high-quality recycled aggregates for concrete mixes (in the broad sense of the word). It is believed that this will provide a nice complement/differentiation to the primary aggregates business. The start-up of the in-house developed wet separation plant in Genk and the resulting recycled and washed aggregates has, through a lot of research and demo projects, given insight into the actual value of such recycled aggregates, provided the exact grain size distribution and quality of the aggregates can be tuned to the intended use.

As a result, BIOTERRA invests in equipment to ensure quality, consistency and precision of tailor-made aggregate mixtures (Dmax 20mm).

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The aforementioned investment amount will be spent on :

  • mixing plant 5m³ discontinuous mixer with 12 feed bunkers ;
  • optical separator for removal of glass (and brick) from the debris streams;
  • crushing and classifying plant for the stony fractions (internal and external);
  • automatic storage system washed sand from the wet separation plant;
  • housing warehouse BIOTERRA/DC Environment;
  • BIOTERRA/DC Environment office
  • new road

BIOTERRA is thus a forerunner in terms of transition to more circularity in building materials and, partly due to its vision and policy, is being rewarded with a €2 million subsidy from the Flemish government, bundled under its expansion project "AggReMix" (Aggregates-Recycling-Mixing) discussed here.

With this expansion, the available area of its Genk (Belgium) site will be 13.5ha.

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