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DirectoryEnergy & EnvironmentWaste Management IndustryBuchs Sg 3Verein für Abfallentsorgung
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Summary

About the company

The core activity of VfA-Buchs includes waste disposal, energy production through district heating and the operation of plants for wastewater treatment and waste recycling.

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Products & services

Industry:Waste Management Industry
✓ Offered11
Thermal waste recovery
Thermal recovery of municipal waste, industrial waste and residual waste in the Buchs incineration plant (KVA); conversion into electricity, district heating and district steam, and reduction of fossil energy sources.
Recycling and sorting plant
Sennwald sorting plant for material recovery of waste and valuable materials; sorting, collecting and recovering raw materials from waste.
Hazardous waste collection point
Collection point for special waste with proper disposal and acceptance of problematic waste in the recycling sector.
Animal carcass collection point
Collection point for animal carcasses with proper disposal as part of the waste management and recovery infrastructure.
Composting of green waste
Processing green waste from the kitchen, garden and landscaping into compost soil; returning organic waste to the ecological cycle.
Delivery of green waste and farm manure
Acceptance of green waste and farm manure for composting; administrative handling via the composting site and related information on opening hours, prices and delivery.
Collection of compost
Handover and collection of compost for customers; provision of the produced compost soil for further use.
District heating
Delivery of district heating from the Buchs incineration plant (KVA) based on the heat energy generated during combustion.
District steam
Provision of district steam from the Buchs incineration plant (KVA) as an industrial energy supply from waste heat and combustion energy.
Electricity
Generation of electricity from the combustion heat of the Buchs incineration plant (KVA) as part of the energy recovery of waste.
Hydrogen
Hydrogen production and refuelling station as a future project using surplus electricity from the company’s own power generation.
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Verein für Abfallentsorgung

Trust & reputation

ranQ Trust Score of Verein für Abfallentsorgung: 4.4 out of 5.0

Trust Score4.4/ 5.0

Very high

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Data basis 100% · As of October 2026

Verein für Abfallentsorgung scores 78.5 out of 100 points in the Reputation area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 42% of the weighting.
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  • Review quality: The average rating across all connected sources, smoothed against the industry mean. So 5.0 stars from three reviews do not outrank 4.7 from three hundred.65.024%
  • Review volume: The number of reviews across all sources. The scale is logarithmic: the first reviews count the most, and the maximum is reached at 50 reviews.93.810%
  • Review recency: The age of the most recent review. Two-year-old reviews deliberately sit in the middle, because that is normal for Swiss SMEs. Only after three years without a new voice does the value drop markedly.100.08%
Verein für Abfallentsorgung scores 83.5 out of 100 points in the Substance area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 28% of the weighting.
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  • Establishment: Years since founding or brand launch, logarithmic. The maximum is reached at 15 years.100.012%
  • Company size: The headcount band, researched by ranQ or stated by the company. It is scored in steps rather than by head count, because the data only provides bands.70.07%
Verein für Abfallentsorgung scores 86.7 out of 100 points in the Identity area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 22% of the weighting.
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  • Verification: Official register entry (commercial register with UID or professional-body record, 55 points), confirmed domain (20 points) and confirmed ranQ profile (up to 25 points, depending on completeness).86.722%
Verein für Abfallentsorgung scores 75.7 out of 100 points in the Visibility area of the ranQ Trust Score. This area carries 8% of the weighting.
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  • Website authority: Ahrefs' Domain Rating measures, on a scale of 0 to 100, how strongly a website is linked from other websites. For Swiss SMEs the range up to 40 is typical; the maximum is reached at 35.91.44%
  • Media authority: Quality and number of editorial mentions, weighted by the importance of the source, plus the recency of the latest high-quality mention.60.04%
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Verein für Abfallentsorgung reaches a ranQ Trust Score of 4.4 out of 5.0 — rated «Very high». The rating draws, among other things, on 4.3 out of 5 stars from 39 customer reviews. As of October 2026.

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Reviews

Aggregated rating

Aggregated rating
4.3
of 5

Aggregated from 39 reviews across all connected sources

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Press

Media

July 1, 2026Media
KVA Buchs plant Wasserstoffproduktion: Neue Impulse für die Ostschweiz
rheintaler.ch
May 29, 2026Media
Viel mehr als nur warme Luft
wundo.ch
March 24, 2026Media
Kraftstoff aus Abfall: KVA Buchs produziert ab 2027 Wasserstoff
wundo.ch
March 25, 2024Media
Wie aus Müll Wert wird
leaderdigital.ch
May 13, 2016Media
Der Verein für Abfallentsorgung war in schwierigem Umfeld erfolgreich
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Location

Langäulistrasse 24
9471 Buchs Sg 3
Opening hours
Mon
07:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 17:00
Tue
07:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 17:00
Wed
07:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 17:00
Thu
07:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 17:00
Fri
07:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 16:00
Sat
Closed
Sun
Closed

At a glance

Legal form
Association
UID
CHE-101.990.022
Founded
1961 · 65 years
Last commercial register change
June 24, 2025
Employees
11 to 20
Legal form: Graded by liability and disclosure. The weight is kept small: a sole proprietorship is not a dubious company, it is just liable differently.
73.0
6%
  • Branch offices: Branch offices linked in the commercial register. Having none is normal and costs no points.70.03%
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