Today, a company that develops and manufactures ammunition and ordnance also needs to know how to dispose of its products once they have reached the end of their safe shelf life – for instance, by converting live rounds into practice ammunition.
The huge diversity and immense quantities of rapidly ageing ammunition and explosives stockpiled today require a multitude of specific technological and industrial methods as well as the corresponding plant and equipment.
Rheinmetall Defence has the know-how necessary to do this, and offers a full range of environmentally friendly disposal technologies for safely destroying explosive components and for recovering and reusing recyclable materials.
When it comes to transporting, storing, dismantling, unloading, recycling and disposing of conventional ammunition and explosive materials, Rheinmetall Defence is one of Europe's leading experts.
Together with partners from local industry, Rheinmetall Defence offers innovative disposal concepts and appropriate financial solutions in Bulgaria, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, featuring its own specially developed techniques and equipment.