About us
The company founder and inventor of SUPERCOMP, Reinhard Schmidl, was significantly involved in many environmental projects in a small Austrian town, such as the world's first energy-saving trade fair, nature-oriented flood projects with retention basins including an eco-zone and finally the introduction of waste separation. The aim was to reduce the expensive and ecologically disadvantageous collection of organic waste as far as possible and replace it with home composting.
However, although the population was regularly provided with expert information via the municipal newspaper, in lectures and at composting parties, the usual problems with the work of turning and hygiene (unpleasant odors, insects) arose. The professional placement of the pile could be categorized as "wishful thinking", as the organic waste was simply thrown into a pile and the turning was saved - with the subsequent hygiene problems of bad smells and insect infestation.
The need for a new system for home composting was obvious and Schmidl began - due to a lack of available alternatives - with the initial development of the SUPERCOMPwhich is designed to eliminate precisely these problems. From the basic idea to the current generation of the SUPERCOMP it was a long road with many development steps, which often led to "dead ends". But in the end, the work was worth it, as the very problems of home composting have been eliminated and solved with the SUPERCOMP could be eliminated and solved.
Schmidl is still happy to help many customers today with his knowledge of various problems. As he has gained sufficient experience with regard to home composting for local authorities, he also prefers to advise in this sector.
The beginning of the SUPERCOMP
Schmidl (here with his wife) during one of the many trials on a farm in the Graz area in the 1990s. Here, the pure composting of horse manure was tested in trials. Subsequently, the renowned Joanneum Research Institute and the Institute of Process Engineering at Graz University of Technology (Austria) accompanied Schmidl in his developments with their own series of tests on the pure-sort composting of oranges, grass cuttings and tomato cake. The composting of single-sort material is considered "difficult" or even "impossible". In the end, it was also possible to prove the function, practicality and efficiency of this process.
