Paprec Schweiz

Paprec Schweiz calls itself, in its own title tag, a "Systemdienstleister für nachhaltiges Recycling" (a systems provider for sustainable recycling), and that's an accurate description of what the group actually is: a national waste and recycling operator, not a moving or clearance specialist. Its homepage lists 7 named services: skip and container rental (Muldenservice), public collection points, secure document destruction (Aktenvernichtung), clearances (Räumungen), waste management for cities and municipalities, waste disposal for private individuals and industry, and recyclable-materials trading. Clearance work and private disposal sit in that list as 2 of the 7, not as the company's headline offer, which matches why it shows up here: if you're clearing a household before or after a move and need someone to haul away and responsibly recycle what's left, this is a genuine option, but it is not going to pack a truck or transport your furniture to a new address.

The company's registered Swiss head office is at Schlachthofstrasse 10, 4056 Basel. That's worth being precise about, because a different company with a similar name, LOTTNER AG, sits at Schlachthofstrasse 18, a few doors down the same street, and is one of Paprec Schweiz's own operating subsidiaries rather than a separate business. That's not a coincidence to read anything into: Lottner AG is where this whole group actually started, and understanding that history explains both the "seit 125 Jahren" line in the site's own title and the confusing web of brand names you'll run into if you look at Paprec's other locations.

According to the group's own dated history page, a Rhineland immigrant named Robert Lottner senior founded Lottner AG in Basel in 1896. His son, Robert Lottner junior, took over running the business in 1939 and, in 1956, founded the group's first subsidiary, LOPATEX AG, in Altstetten near Zürich. E. MÜLLER AG followed in Ebikon near Luzern in 1977. The group kept building physical infrastructure over the following decades: a new LOPATEX site in Dällikon in 1981, a new E. Müller site in Buchrain in 1990, and a second paper-sorting plant for Lottner AG in Birsfelden, near Basel, in 1995. Reisswolf Aktenvernichtungs-AG, the group's document-destruction arm, was founded in 1997. The turning point for the current name came in 2010, when the French Paprec Group acquired the Lottner Holding companies as part of a succession plan, and the Swiss entity was renamed Paprec Schweiz AG. Paprec then added Data Ex 4000 AG (data-carrier destruction) in 2011 and the Rewag recycling centre in Oftringen in 2017, opened a Geneva branch for Lottner SA and Reisswolf in 2019, and marked Lottner AG's 125th anniversary in 2021, the anniversary the current tagline still refers to.

That acquisition history matters for a practical reason: Paprec Schweiz today is a holding brand over a set of subsidiaries that mostly still trade under their own, older names. The group's own site lists 6 Swiss locations, each with its own company name, address, phone number and email rather than a shared Paprec contact: REWAG in Oftringen (Aargau), LOTTNER AG in Basel itself and separately in Birsfelden (Basel-Land), LOTTNER SA in Satigny (Geneva), E. MÜLLER AG in Buchrain (Luzern), Multimetall AG in Muttenz, and LOPATEX AG in Dällikon (Zürich). Each location also has its own named contact person for clearance and disposal enquiries, for instance Norbert Roskosch for Lottner Basel sales or André Nadler as managing director and client advisor at E. Müller Luzern. If you're calling about a job in one of these cantons, you're really calling that named subsidiary, not a generic Paprec switchboard, so use the address and number for the location nearest you rather than the Basel head-office details for a job somewhere else.

One notice on the homepage is worth flagging rather than glossing over, because the site itself doesn't fully explain it: a line reads "Unsere Unternehmen E. Müller AG und Reisswolf Luzern sind am 1. November geschlossen." Taken at face value, that could mean the Lucerne units are closed for the 1 November public holiday, which several Swiss cantons observe, or it could signal something longer-lasting; the page gives no further context either way. Anyone with time-sensitive business at the Luzern location should confirm current hours directly rather than assume either reading.

On scale, the group states its own totals rather than leaving you to guess: more than 20,000 satisfied customers, more than 125 years of group experience, and more than 200 employees, all given as round figures on the Räumungen and private-disposal pages themselves. The company profile page adds that its 6 Swiss sites together collect, sort and process more than 200,000 tonnes of recyclable material a year. Keep those Swiss-group numbers separate from the ones the same page gives for the French parent, Paprec Group, which it describes as having grown from 45 to 12,500 employees over 30 years, now present at more than 280 locations worldwide and processing more than 16 million tonnes of material annually. Those are real figures the site states about its owner, but they describe a much larger international company, not the Swiss operation you'd actually be dealing with for a household clearance in Basel.

For the specific job that puts Paprec in this directory, the Räumungen page describes clearing houses, flats, offices and storage spaces, sorting what comes out between disposal and recyclable material, and it points out its skip service (Muldenservice) as a complementary option if you'd rather do the sorting yourself and just need containers delivered and collected on schedule. That's a credible, specific pitch backed by a group with genuine scale and a Basel pedigree running back to 1896, not a vague sustainability slogan. What it isn't, and doesn't claim to be, is a moving company: there's no packing service, no furniture transport, and no mention of relocating anyone's household contents anywhere on the site. If your need is disposal and recycling around a move rather than the move itself, Paprec Schweiz, or more precisely its Basel-area subsidiary Lottner AG, is worth a call; if you need someone to actually carry your furniture, look elsewhere in this directory.