Rissmann (60) brings with him 30 years of industry experience to the position as head of the German market. Educated as an engineer, Rissmann has worked with many different waste fractions and has during the last decade specialized within waste wood and biomass in the German market. The last five years he has held the position as business development manager at Geminor’soffice in Ulm.
– Since 2021, the waste management industry has been quite turbulent, which also has been the case for our office in Germany. Taking charge of our operations in the biggest energy recovery market in Europe is a considerable responsibility, but I am looking forward to assisting Geminor in adapting to a new reality within resource management, says Manfred Rissmann.
A complex market
Being a country divided into 16 regions, Germany is a complex market in a European context. In the last year the country has gone from being mainly an export market to becoming an import market of waste fractions. For Geminor, which is mainly focusing on RDF, SRF and waste wood in Germany, the frequent variations in domestic demand, supply, prices and regulations are requiring a quicker response than before, explains Rissmann.
– A new CO2 tax and an increase in truck levies will be introduced in a relatively weak economy. These are some of the factors that will influence the German market in the time to come, and be part of the challenges Geminor needs to deal with, says the new country manager.
– Our main task now is to help establish new and more sustainable recycling and recovery solutions. Closer cooperation with leading German waste industry operators is a natural part of this. But we must also face the fact that the recycling market is getting more international every year, says Rissmann.
Developing Geminor further also means finding new and motivated employees for building the German team.
– The current German market may be demanding, but it also brings business opportunities and a big potential for growth. We plan to take advantage of the group’s international expertise within notification, logistics, and biomass, and build a strong German team that will play an important part in Geminor’s international operations in the years to come, concludes Geminor’s new Country Manager, Manfred Rissmann.
