In 1983 the State of Hesse and the
University of
Kassel started an experiment to
introduce separated collection of organic waste, under the guidance of Thomas
Turk and Klaus Fricke. Alongside carrying out this experiment the 2 scientists
founded the engineering company Witzenhausen Fricke and Turk GmbH (Ltd.) – today
an internationally active, scientific, services concern with a permanent team of
20 employees. In 1999 Professor
Dr. Klaus Fricke was appointed to the
TU Braunschweig (Brunswick). Chartered
engineer Juergen Hake, up to that point head of the facility planning
department, took over, alongside Thomas Turk, the role of Managing Director.
IGW has
developed into a centre of waste management and environmental innovations and is
characterised, especially in the last few years, increasingly by projects of
material and energetic use of regenerating raw materials. In excess of 70% of
the work is concerned with planning and research, which are then to a great
extent put into practice. Because of that the concern can test current
scientific knowledge directly on its suitability for practical use and can use
this newly gained experienced in future planning and research projects –a
dynamism, which has made IGW the market leader in waste technology
developments.
In order to satisfy the
increasing for appropriate consultation services in the rest of
Europe, subsidiary companies in
Luxemburg and England have
been set up. With IGLux
S.à r.l., Oeko-Bureau and ORA Organic Research Agency in an association of
firms, IGW offers its experience and services across the whole of
Europe. Because of the
interdisciplinary co-operation of this European engineering team IGW is
increasingly a contractor for comprehensive waste management and environmental
technology projects abroad.