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About Iridex Group

IRIDEX Group is the largest company in the environmental industry in Romania, one of the pioneers in the environmental protection related industries.

Established in 1991, IRIDEX Group has more than 30 years of experience in environmental protection, municipal waste management, construction and operation of integrated waste management centres.

By what it does, IRIDEX Group aims to protect the environment by eliminating the waste of resources - whatever they may be - thus contributing to achieving the European objective of #zero waste# and implementing the principles of the circular economy.

Iridex Group, continuous innovation

Since its inception, all companies IRIDEX GROUP have been promoters of innovation and cutting-edge technologies. IRIDEX GROUP believes that without innovation, without the rapid implementation of technical progress and cutting-edge technologies, any company and any industry is doomed to failure. This is also why IRIDEX GROUP has always been at the forefront of the fields in which they are active. So companies in IRIDEX GROUP have seen a number of firsts for the Romanian economy:

  • The first conform landfill in Romania, Chiajna-Bucuresti
  • The first leachate treatment plant with reverse osmosis in Romania
  • The first facility for collecting and recovering landfill gas through cogeneration in Romania
  • Romania's first wind farm
  • The first company in Romania to use geosynthetic materials

Iridex Group - Solutions for a smarter future

IRIDEX GROUP is an active partner in the Start Inovare Association, one of the most dynamic development and innovation clusters in Romania.  Cluster Start Innovation was founded in 2016, the values on which it bases its activity are: Research, Competitiveness, Quality.

Start Inovare aims to obtain cutting-edge scientific and technological results in order to increase the international visibility of Romanian research and to implement the results in practice. 

The members of the Start Innovation cluster want to increase the competitiveness of the Romanian economy through innovation, the only way to ensure the sustainable development of the country.

Group IRIDEX is also involved in the „Processes and operational systems for material and energy treatment and recovery of waste - PROVED".

PROVED aims to increase the transfer of knowledge, technology and personnel with R&D&I skills between the Polytechnic University of Bucharest and the private sector by developing an eco-technology for the energy recovery of municipal waste and obtaining a Waste Derived Fuel (WDF), a technology for the production of a gas with superior combustible properties (biogas), an innovative waste management and tracking technology with the measurement of complex effects (social, environmental, economic) and an advanced system for the depollution of leachate from landfills.

The ultimate effect of introducing and promoting innovation is, in the view of IRIDEX GROUP increasing Romanians' quality of life and social prosperity.

IRIDEX GROUP IN FACTS AND FIGURES

  • 40% of the composting plants in Romania are built by IRIDEX;
  • The largest Integrated Waste Management Centre in Romania - Bucharest - Chiajna.
  • 80% of all compliant warehouses in Romania built with materials produced by IRIDEX;
  • 2.5 million waste containers distributed to local authorities across the country.
  • employees : 300+ at the end of 2022
  • Working points : Bucharest, Calarasi, Mures
  • Quantities of waste processed
  • Quantities of sorted waste
  • Quantities of waste recycled
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