Our "today"
BDI Holding GmbH operates as the financially strong holding company of the internationally active BDI Group. The business areas of our subsidiaries range from special plant construction in the renewable energy sector to the production of pure, algae-based life science products.
Since its first day of existence, BDI has been committed to researching and developing new, environmentally friendly technologies.
In order to constantly provide new impetuses to the spirit of development, we operate our own research and development center and promote close cooperation with renowned universities and research institutes.
In this way, we develop our own technological lead and, through investments and partnerships, help creative researchers turn their ideas into reality. This creates new, future-oriented fields of business.
Our claim to technological leadership in all areas of activity is confirmed by our company's history. We have made "lateral" or "out-of-the-box" thinking our maxim. Our actions demonstrate focus on new, individualized ways of solving problems for our customers.
Today, under the umbrella of BDI Holding, the group of companies stands for the competence to supply customers with complete "GreenTech Process Solutions". Each of our subsidiaries relies on their individual skills and expertise in order to offer their customers a wide selection of products and services.
From the development of new technologies for the processing, conversion or manufacture of the highest-quality products from biogenic raw materials to the handover of turnkey plants, the use of cross-company synergies enables us to set new technological standards and thus repeatedly define benchmarks in the environmental technology sector.
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Our "yesterday"
BDI-Anlagenbau GmbH was founded in 1996 as a management buy-out of the Vogel & Noot Group. The "out-of-the-box" thinking of the founders, Wilhelm Hammer and Helmut Gössler, not only led to enormous growth of the company itself, but also to the definition of its own market segment: the biodiesel industry.
The economic efforts were crowned with a successful IPO in 2006.
Far-reaching changes in the field of renewable energy have made the market environment rougher in recent years. However, thanks to its extensive know-how and technological lead, BDI remains a major player in the global biofuel sector.
In 2015, a spin-off from the company's own biofuel research opened the way to the strongly growing international business field of life sciences. This primarily involves the production of natural raw materials for the cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries and represents yet another important development step for the group.
The specially founded BDI-BioLife Science GmbH is successful in this new, interesting business area with algae-based materials of the highest quality for the B2B sector.
Milestones
1996
Founding of BDI-Anlagenbau GmbH with headquarters in Feldkirchen near Graz (Austria) after a management buy-out from Vogel & Noot Industrieanlagenbau, with takeover of personnel, patents, technologies and references
Participation in the renowned "Ökodrive biodiesel demonstration project" in Graz, where the entire public bus fleet was successfully converted to operate on 100 percent used cooking oil-based biodiesel
1998
Construction of the world's first industrial Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant, which processes animal fats into high-quality BioDiesel in Butler/Kentucky (USA)
2001
Construction of the first animal fat-based BioDiesel plant in Europe (Malchin, Germany)
2002
Commissioning of the first BioDiesel plant with fully continuous production in Niederpöllnitz (Germany)
Grand opening of the first Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant in Barcelona (Spain)
2003
Completion and relocation to a new company building with an industrial laboratory in Raaba-Grambach (Austria)
Opening of another Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant in Arnoldstein (Austria)
2005
Design and construction of a Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant for processing Category 1 and 2 risk material in Motherwell (Great Britain)
2006
Successful IPO of BDI-BioDiesel International AG on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Start of algae research to obtain algae oil for biodiesel production
Worldwide patenting of the BDI RepCat process, a novel, BDI BioDiesel technology with recyclable catalyst
Opening of the largest Austrian BDI BioDiesel plant in Vienna (Austria)
Completion and opening of a Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant in Lünen (Germany)
Completion and opening of two BDI BioDiesel plants in Barcelona and Huesca (Spain)
2007
Commissioning of the first industrial RepCat BioDiesel plant in Arnoldstein (Austria)
Internal start of Biomass to Liquid (BtL) research with the title "bioCRACK"
Saria | Lünen 2008
A boom year for the biodiesel industry - BDI works on 14 BioDiesel projects in parallel. This leads to BioDiesel plant openings in Ferrol, Altorricon, Almeria and Sevilla (Spain), Ventspils (Latvia), Klaipedia (Lithuania), Løsning (Denmark), Wexford (Ireland) and Lünen (Germany)
Acquisition of UIC GmbH - a company specializing in vacuum distillation - based in Alzenau (Germany)
Acquisition of 25 percent stake in VTU Holding, a specialist in the field of plant and industrial process planning
Opening of the first BDI BioDiesel plant in Barnawartha (Australia)
2009
Opening of the "Process Development Center", a technology hub at BDI headquarters in Raaba-Grambach (Austria)
BDI-BioDiesel plant openings in Bilbao (Spain) and Fredrikstad (Norway)
2010
Start sales of industrial biogas solutions
Change of company name to BDI - BioEnergy International AG
Construction of the world's largest Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant in Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2011
Construction of the first biogas plant in Pamukova (Turkey)
BDI obtains the ISO9001/2008 certificate
The two company founders step down as board members and continue to accompany BDI as major shareholders and consultants
Opening of the first German BDI biogas plant in Malchin (Germany)
2012
Opening and commissioning of the bioCRACK pilot plant in Vienna-Schwechat (Austria)
Opening of the first French BDI biogas plant in Etampes (France)
2013
Opening of the first Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant for trap greases in Hong Kong (Asia)
Commissioning of BioDiesel plants in Mogilev (Belarus), Sines (Portugal) and LeHavre (France)
2014
Successful scale-up of the BDI algae breeding technology in an industrial production process
Modernization, upgrading and adaptation (RetroFit) of a BioDiesel plant of competitor in Volos (Greece)
2015
Construction and successful commissioning of the world's first biogas plant operated with spent grains for an Austrian brewery in Göss. The plant converts spent grains into biomethane and thus ensures complete energy self-sufficiency of the brewery
Founding of BDI-BioLife Science GmbH and launching of the "Production plant Astafit" project
Opening of the first BDI biogas plant for the recycling of chicken manure in Podlasie (Poland)
2016
20th anniversary of the BDI company
First RetroFit project of a plant with external technology in Bakersfield/California (USA)
Delisting of BDI - BioEnergy International AG from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Opening of a grease treatment plant and a high-pressure esterification plant in Stanlow (Great Britain)
2017
Commissioning of a Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant in Stanlow (Great Britain)
2018
Start of construction of the first industrial BDI-BioLife ScienceDI algae production plant at Ökopark Hartberg (Austria)
Restructuring of the BDI Group with BDI Holding GmbH as the holding company, under the management of Helmut Gössler, and the subsidiaries BDI-BioEnergy International GmbH, BDI-Betriebs GmbH and BDI-BioLifeScience GmbH
Ceremonial opening of the BDI-BioLife ScienceI algae production plant at Ökopark Hartberg after less than 10 months of construction
2020
Start of construction of the largest RepCAT plant in Belgium for Cargill
2021
European health authority EFSA approves RepCAT technology for safe disposal of high-risk fatty material
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