New test result confirms: no elevated PCB values for ready-for-sale material

Dortmund,  30  June  2010. The ready-for-sale sheet metal plates by Envio Recycling  GmbH  &  Co.  KG  are not contaminated with PCB. This is the result of an investigation commissioned by Arnsberg district government, which is now available to the company.

The sheet metal plates come from PCB-containing transformers and were correctly cleaned by Envio to make them ready for sale to customers for further processing.  The goods are stored in halls exclusively dedicated to the storage of outgoing goods on company premises in Dortmund’s harbour. On 7  June,  the authorities took samples from the sheet metal plates.

The results were inconspicuous. “According to the test results, there is no systematic PCB-contamination at Envio  whatsoever“,  explains managing director Dr  Dirk Neupert. “The defamatory speculations that goods declared free from PCB are in fact contaminated therefore have no basis at all.”

This is also confirmed by the results of analyses of the transformer in the so-called white area and of cleaned transformer parts. Here, too, all analysed parts are unremarkable with regard to PCB contamination.
Other official investigations on company premises have also been negative. These concern a main tenant on location, who rents offices and various production halls from Envio. Samples taken from the company’s offices and from five halls that the company uses in full or in part also gave no indication of elevated PCB-contamination.

In three other halls and in part of a fourth one, on the other hand, dust samples revealed elevated values (63 – 633 mg/kg). The highest values were found in a hall that Envio has been renting out to an independent company for a long time.  The company has been servicing transformers there since the beginning of the nineties. Another hall also used by that company also has elevated PCB values.

The dust in the fourth hall, on request by the district government, will now be removed shortly.