Over 70 years of knowledge and experience

After being active since 1934 as a producer of steel products, the OTTO Group entered the waste handling market by starting up the mass production of steel litter bins in 1950. Soon after the introduction of plastic as raw material in the early sixties, OTTO developed and successfully introduced in 1965 the plastic 2-Wheel bin concept on the German market. Based on the success of this product, OTTO rapidly developed into one of the leading manufactures of waste containers in Europe. In 1982 we took the world‘s largest plastic injection moulding machine in operation, followed by state-of-the-art production facilities in Germany (1992) and France (1993).

With 6 production locations in Europe covering all relevant production technologies, over 70 years of knowledge and experience and a commercial presence in almost all countries on our continent, we are regarded as one of the leading companies in our field of business in Europe.

Crissey - France

Pamplona - Spain

Neuruppin - Germany

Based on our consolidated capacity, knowledge and experience, we offer the full range of waste handling related products and services, and provide expert knowledge support in this area. For the business areas Public Furnishing, Logistic Systemes, Lift Equipment, Waste Data Management and Intermediate Bulk Containers we created competence centres, offering optimal solutions for your needs.

Using our European R&D centre we constantly strive to develop new products and services using advanced technologies and materials, to fulfil and anticipate market demands and find optimal solutions for a constantly changing world.

Examples of our recent technological developments include:

• The launch of the Optibin, a product using the Irguagard ® additive developed in collaboration with world leading Ciba-Geigy
• The Vario-concept, a "pay-per-volume" bin system
• The European introduction of the Underground Waste Systems
• The introduction of a new Semi-Underground Waste Systems
• Development of the new collection bank Alaska
• Development of a complete line of Sideloader optimised 2- and 4-wheel containers: the SL-Family
• An ESD (Electro Static Discharge) approved waste collection system
• Development of a new and state of the art rearloader