Remat Chemie BV regenerates and sells solvents. We devise solutions for your purification, separation or waste problem.
Remat Chemie has been regenerating organic solvents for more than 75 years. Using fractionation, distillation, film evaporation and filtration techniques, Remat Chemie cleans contaminated solvents from various industries, such as the automotive, pharmaceutical and chemical sectors, and returns them to industry. This avoids the emission of greenhouse gases (particularly CO2 and NOx) that are released when these materials are incinerated and when new products are manufactured. The amount of greenhouse gas emissions we avoid in this way is comparable to the entire footprint of a small town. Our work shows that we play an important role in the circular economy.
The current owners, Mike Giunti and Maarten de Leeuw, took over Remat Chemie in 2017. Initially, they did so together with one of the former owners, Michiel Hoenderkamp. However, since 2023, the shares have been wholly owned by Mike and Maarten.
We have grown considerably since the takeover in 2017. The workforce has doubled from 18 to more than 40 employees, and throughput and the customer base have expanded significantly.
Since 2025, Remat has been operating under a new operating permit, which offers plenty of scope for increasing throughput, investments and expansion of activities. Linked to this, the entire team has created the vision for Remat 2030, “Doubling our Impact”.
Remat is now licensed to process 30 million litres of contaminated solvents annually
And Remat falls under the Seveso regulations for this processing. The Seveso regulations are European legislation that sets rules for companies working with hazardous substances in order to prevent serious accidents and limit their consequences for people and the environment. While working safely and operating strictly within the law is already the most important priority for the owners/management of the company, the strict Seveso guidelines ensure even greater focus and supervision in this area.
Remat is a member of the Dutch Waste Management Association (VA) and the European Solvents Recycling Group (ESRG). And, of course, Remat has ISO 14001 certification.
Safe and responsible
The National Waste Plan (known as LAP3) describes the objectives and principles of waste policy in the Netherlands. One of the objectives of LAP3 is to optimise the use of waste in a circular economy, i.e. to ensure that raw materials and waste are reused as much as possible in the same or other chains so that these materials are not lost to the circular economy. Only waste that cannot be reused may be disposed of.
The following waste hierarchy is distinguished in LAP3:
a. Prevention;
b. Preparation for reuse;
c1. Recycling of the original material in an identical or, in terms of the required quality of the material, comparable application;
c2. Recycling of the original material in an application that is not the same or comparable in terms of the required quality of the material and/or chemical recycling via basic chemicals;
d. Other useful application, including energy recovery;
e1. Incineration as a form of disposal;
e2. Landfilling or discharge.
The waste hierarchy is structured in such a way that high-quality processing is preferred in principle. Remat’s processes fall within categories b. and c1. category “recycling of the original functional material in an identical or comparable application” and are a higher-quality form of processing than the alternative of incineration for energy recovery.
In mid-2025, LAP3 will be replaced by the CMP, the Circular Materials Plan. The CMP is an important instrument that will be used by the Government from 2025 onwards as the successor to LAP3 in order to achieve a circular economy. It provides a uniform framework for the use of raw materials, waste management and the granting of permits. Among other things, the CMP will offer the possibility to steer towards a specific form of recycling. The CMP will thus focus more on high-quality recycling, the field in which Remat Chemie is also active.