CE-ZA-R Centar za reciklažu d.o.o. Zagreb

• Largest C.I.O.S. group member
• Leading Croatian waste management company
• Two unique facilities in Croatia, facility for treatment of large cooling devices and shredder facility
• Branch office CE-ZA-R MBO – facility with modern equipment for mechanical biological treatment of non-hazardous waste
• Sorted iron foundry

Basic info

General Information

CE-ZA-R d.o.o. is the leading Croatian company and a highly important actor in the waste management sector, based on various business performance criteria and market shares.

The main business activity of the CE-ZA-R Recycling Centre is the collection, recovery and trading of metal waste and other predominantly metal waste materials. The company is an invaluable and significant strategic partner and the leading collector of waste materials provided by numerous partners in the economic sector, local government units and citizens.

Through its modernly equipped 17 operating units / recycling centers, logistically connected by road, railway and water transport, CE-ZA-R d.o.o. provides high-level supply of sufficient quantities of waste for processing, as well as the possibility of successful integration in the international markets in Europe and outside the EU.

CE-ZA-R and all its associated sites hold all necessary waste management permits, in line with the highest global standards.

CE-ZA-R is an authorised concessionaire for Croatia regarding the collection and processing of end-of-life vehicles (ELV) and the collection and processing of EE waste (large household appliances).

CE-ZA-R offers its business partners and the public complete services and consulting regarding efficient and the most eco-friendly options for disposing special categories of waste.

CE-ZA-R offers industrial dismantling services, as well as the removal and collection of factory and manufacturing waste, transport of outdated machinery and devices, while also providing a complete recycling service for that kind of waste material.

Two facilities, unique in Croatia, operate at the CE-ZA-R Recycling Centre in Zagreb – the facility for the processing of large cooling devices which allows for the processing of large cooling devices and extracting of CFC compounds (freons) under completely controlled conditions and in accordance with the highest environmental protection standards, as well as the waste shredding facility.

On an annual basis, CE-ZA-R collects and processes around 400,000 tons of different kinds of metal waste, as well as around 70,000 tons of non-metals.

Within the Southern Industrial Zone of Sisak, the steel casting foundry, one of a kind in Croatia, has been operating since 1954, manufacturing castings for purposes of shipbuilding, engineering and railway car building.

The CE-ZA-R MBO branch office operates in Varaždin, at the address Ulica Dore Pejačević 10. It holds a modernly equipped facility for mechanical biological treatment of non-hazardous waste with a capacity of 95,000 tons. The facility accounts for a third of the total country capacity of mechanical biological treatment of non-hazardous waste. The product resulting from the mechanical biological treatment is refuse-derived fuel (RDF) which the company supplies to leading business entities in the Croatian cement industry. The features and quality of refuse-derived fuel (RDF) produced at the mechanical biological treatment facility make it a viable alternative to fossil fuels.

Non-hazardous waste processing is implemented by applying the highest technological and environmental standards.