URT Umwelt- und Recyclingtechnik GmbH was founded in 1995 by the owners and managing directors Peter Heßler and Thomas Gundersdorf.

The business field of URT includes the engineering, sales and service of recycling plants for electrical and electronic scrap (WEEE). The European regulation WEEE (Waste of Electric and Electronical Equipment) forms the basis and guideline for these plants.

URT is an expert in the following fields of plant engineering:
- Refrigerator recycling
- SDA- and IT- recycling
- Big domestic appliances recycling
- Printed circuit board recycling
- Toner cartridge recycling
- LCD recycling
- CRT recycling
- Sorting of WEEE plastics

We offer our customers the necessary technology for the recycling of electrical and electronic scrap in accordance with the latest state of the art and current regulations. URT plants are designed to remove pollutants and generate valuable materials. Through our collaboration on current standards and guidelines, as well as our research in the field of plant technology, we are constantly developing our recycling plants further.

URT has reference plants on the following continents:
- Europe
- South America
- North America
- Asia
- Africa

with permanent representatives in Turkey, Poland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Africa, Brazil, North America and Asia.