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The company founder and inventor of the SUPERCOMP, Reinhard Schmidl, as city manager of a small Austrian town, was significantly involved in many environmental projects of this municipality, such as the world's first energy-saving trade fair, near-natural flood protection projects with retention basins including eco-zones, and finally also in the introduction of waste separation. The aim was to reduce the expensive and ecologically disadvantageous removal of organic waste as much as possible and replace it with home composting.

But although the population was regularly informed by experts via the municipal newspaper, in lectures and at composting parties, the usual problems with the work of turning the pile and hygiene (odor nuisance, insects) occurred. The professional setting up of the pile could be classified in the category of “wishful thinking”, because the organic waste was simply thrown on a pile and the turning was saved – with the resulting hygiene problems of foul odors and insect infestation.

The need for a new system for home composting was obvious, and Schmidl began – in the absence of existing alternatives – with the initial development of the SUPERCOMP, which is designed to eliminate precisely these problems. From the basic idea to today's generation of the SUPERCOMP it was a long road with many development steps, which often ended in dead ends. But ultimately, the work paid off, as the SUPERCOMP was able to eliminate and solve precisely those problems associated with home composting.

Schmidl is still happy to help many customers with his knowledge of various problems. Since he has been able to gather sufficient experience with regard to home composting for municipalities, he also preferably advises this sector.

 

The beginning of the SUPERCOMP

Schmidl during one of his many experiments on a farm in the Graz area in the 1990s. Here, the single-variety composting of horse manure was tested in trials. Subsequently, the renowned Joanneum Research Institute and the Institute for Process Engineering at the Graz University of Technology (Austria) supported Schmidl in his developments with their own series of tests on the single-variety composting of oranges, grass clippings, and tomato waste. The composting of single-variety material is regarded as “difficult” to “impossible.” However, even in this case, proof of function, practicality, and efficiency was ultimately demonstrated.