Facilities
FormaTurf Essen
Essen, germany
Data completeness
50% complete- Map location: geocoded from verified street address✓ Available
- Rights-cleared photos○ Missing
- Volume / capacity data✓ Available
- Export / cross-border data○ Missing
- Independently verified throughput○ Missing
- Translations EN/NL/DE/FR✓ Available
Missing items are research gaps, not zero values.
Description
Purpose-built artificial turf recycling plant opened in June 2023. The operator states a capacity of about 200 full-size pitches a year. No independently verified processed tonnage is public.
Where does the material actually end up?
CTE Data noteCircular Turf Europe follows the material from input to final destination.
- 01Inputs
- 02Processes
- 03Outputs
- 04Final material destinations
Inputs
Unknown
Processes
deconstruction, mechanical separation, sand/infill separation, mechanical recycling, company also references proprietary mechanical and chemical processes, moulding of composite products, QR traceability
Outputs
sand (company-reported); mixed/recycled turf composite (company-reported)
Final material destinations
sand → sports-field construction and construction sector; mixed/recycled turf composite → FlexBlock, TrionStone, boards, barriers, construction/landscape products
Recyclable
Under research
Actually recycled
Under research
Recycled into what?
Under research
Capacity
- Licensed capacity
- Unknown
- Installed capacity
- Unknown
- Announced capacity
- Unknown
- Company-reported capacity
- Up to 200 full-size pitches/year; company-reported equivalent approximately 40,000 t/year (public 2022–2023 sources). Capacity, not verified throughput.Company reported
- Verified throughput
- Under research
Summary
- Operator
- FormaTurf GmbH
- Owner
- Unknown
- Location
- Am Stadthafen 9, 45356 Essen, Germany
- Map location
- GEOCODED FROM VERIFIED STREET ADDRESS (not source-verified GPS)
- Country
- germany
- Permits
- Unknown
- Waste codes
- Unknown
- Cross-border acceptance
- Unknown
- Traceability
- Output end markets are company-reported unless stated otherwise; final destinations not independently verified.
Sources
Source verification pending