Our customers and partners benefit from our 30 years of experience and of course from our know-how. We secure this knowledge through regular training in these fields. The close exchange and cooperation with well-known universities also consolidate our skills.
IVB Industrievertretungen stands for reliability, quality and economical sustainable growth. For ourselves, our partners and for our customers for over 30 years.
- Wide-ranging network
- Permanent exchange with metal works
- Compliance
We are strong in these areas.
We see ourselves as an essential link in the circular economy. As an internationally networked wholesaler for metals, we maintain long-term contacts with equally reliable partners.
We are strong in these areas.
We see ourselves as an essential link in the circular economy. As an internationally networked wholesaler for metals, we maintain long-term contacts with equally reliable partners.
Products
Products
Metals
We are an internationally networked wholesaler for metals with a focus on the lead metallurgical industry. To us it is important to supply our customers with raw materials, reliably and on time.
- Antimony in different qualities
- Arsenic
- Bismuth
- Lead & lead alloys
- Calcium Aluminum Alloys
- Calcium
- Selenium
- Tin & Tinalloys
Chemicals
In the chemical trade, we specialize in supplying the metallurgical industry with chemical additives. We have the competence to meet all legal framework conditions, due to our authorization and competence for the “wholesale of poisons”.
- Calcium oxide
- Sodium hydroxide
- Sodium nitrate
- Sodium carbonate
Recyclables
As a waste management company with the appropriate collection permit for hazardous and non-hazardous waste, we bring along the needed years of experience and expertise to operate in this field. We see ourselves as an international link in the circular economy.
- Non-ferrous metal scrap
- Slag, sludge & dust
- Used batteries
- WEEE & complex scraps
- plastic waste
We are Operating Worldwide
About Us
We are a private firm based in Austria and founded in 1990. We set ourselves the goal of living and promoting recycling metals through our already growing network of international business partners.
“Experience is a jewel, and it had need be so, for it is often purchased at an infinite rate.”
Ford in William Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” lines 211:217
In the 1990’s the opening up of new markets in eastern Europe offered the opportunity to introduce new more flexible business structures to replace those of the state. As the old structures of the east crumbled, we were able to introduce private enterprise to the business of recycling of metals. We chose initially to focus on the recycling of used vehicular batteries in Hungary.
Recycling in Hungary was limited in its scope but after securing a partnership with the Hungarian MEH Trust we were able to cooperate with a network of business partners for the collection of used vehicular batteries. The collected batteries were then largely exported to our business partners in western Europe who had an ever-expanding demand. We developed our network of used battery collection and met the demand of our customers who needed lead until we were one of the largest private used battery wholesalers in Hungary. An important element of this business was the use of reliable transport companies who are an essential cornerstone for long term business relationships that continue to this day.
We have the expertise and network in place to quickly meet the needs of new customers.
The building of a network of reliable partners was essential to our business success. Long term business relationships have developed trust and commitment to fulfil mutual benefits and meet the cost-effective needs of customers.
Recycling expanded quickly to include other waste streams. The product range expanded further to include different chemicals and metals. We consider anything capable of being recycled. This led to the opening up of new markets and today we are active in 15 countries all over the world served by a network of business partners.
Gottfried Breiner
Managing Partner
Melitta Breiner
Finance and Administration
Dominik Breiner
Environment and waste management
Chiara Bauer
Office Assistant