The company dates back to 1984, when CHEMITECH Kémia-technológiai Gmk. was founded as one of the first private partnerships. The services of the small enterprise comprised sludge dewatering equipment installed on lorries for industrial companies with rather underdeveloped environmental backgrounds at that time. Our activities brought on an increasing number of problems to be solved in the field of industrial wastewater treatment. Our range of services swelled through time as we satisfied our clients’ requirements and recognised long-term opportunities. We added wastewater treatment agent production and sales to equipment manufacturing and the development of process and industrial wastewater treatment technology. Mobile sludge dewatering systems were a firm basis for entry to the environmental damage recovery market. The company has undergone transformation during the past two decades, changing its name, corporate form and its ownership structure to a certain extent. KÖRTE underwent a major evolution and growth at the end of the 1990s and at the beginning of the millennium. To diversify its activities, the company merged with the Hungarian representative of a recently developed biological wastewater treatment process (“living machines”) and KÖRTE-ORGANICA Rt. was established as a result. After another organisational change and the spin-off of ORGANICA Rt., KÖRTE Környezettechnika Zrt. continued operations independently. The ownership structure changed again between 2010-2012 and István Sánta became the majority shareholder of the company again.
