About us

Who we are and who’s behind AlkaEco

We are a global company with offices in the Netherlands and the Philippines, dedicated to creating environmental innovations for worldwide use.

Our customers are from the funeral world, hospitals, law enforcement agencies (emission-free drug destruction) and new entrepreneurs around the world.

Starting in 2018, we introduced several innovations, and now we’re excited to share our new website, launched in February 2024.

We work with manufacturers around the world.

Our Mission:

We are offering an innovative, greener alternative to the traditional options of burial or cremation by manufacturing and selling automated system units that use the process of Alka Eco Liquification.

Our philosophies and values:

Dignity, industrial safety, and sustainability are core values for us.

We strongly believe that using our automated units can help us achieve zero CO2 emissions.

Goals & Milestones:

The latest Alka Eco Liquification Systems, an innovative energy recall system, were developed and produced in April 2024. We started to experiment in 2018.
In January 2025, we received suggested funding possibilities for our Dutch buyers from rvo.nl.
The 2025 unit(s) are the first Alka Eco Liquification Energy Recall System built for humans, with separate units for pet animals.
The April 2025 energy recall system is a highly efficient energy-saving solution, capable of achieving up to a realistic 50-80% reduction in energy consumption, and it is recognised as the most advanced system in the world. An independent German electronics engineer calculated the energy savings.
Reusing the hot effluent is possible; it depends on government decisions. Back2Nature Plans: In collaboration with the Dutch company TAUW, we aim to enhance the effluent’s cleanliness, thereby gaining approval for its application on the fields.
The deceased can be placed in the recyclable carton PUUR coffin (see the product gallery from Alka Eco Human) and inserted in our unit. Therefore, there is no possibility of biocontamination.
Further innovations are the mobile drug destruction unit, the destruction unit for illegal fireworks, and the mobile unit for the destruction of chemical and biological weapons.
Waste products from kidney dialysis undergo sterilisation.
We have the solution for the removal of cocaine from wastewater in big cities such as Antwerpen (see Antwerp wastewater contains highest concentration of cocaine in Europe).

Our team of specialists

Ludwig Marie Louis de Haan

Founder / Developer / Director

Ludwig Marie Louis de Haan

Inventor/innovator of the Drug Destruction Unit and energy recall system.
Former Engineer DSM Research b.v Technical support 35 years.
Safety inspector.
Grievance councilor of Technical support.
Engineer of safety related equipment such as Pressure vessels, safety relief valves, bursting discs.
Engineer of Rotation equipment such as special pumps for corrosive applications.
Engineer of process technology & equipment for semitechnical and laboratory applications.
Engineer of gas storage cylinders for various gases.
Engineer of pressure reducing regulators, and backpressure, for inert, combustible, and corrosive gases, and liquids.
Material and corrosion expert.

Emmo Meijer

Honorary advisor to Ludwig Marie Louis de Haan

Emmo Meijer

Emmo Meijer, former President DSM Research and CTO, led DSM’s transition from bulk chemicals to a life-sciences focus, earning a reputation as an innovation leader. He later directed R&D at Unilever and FrieslandCampina, holding numerous advisory roles, including chairing TNO Industry’s strategic advisory board and serving as an ambassador for the National Program for Circular Economy.

Jeroen Konings

Advisor for chemistry

Jeroen Konings

Work Experience:

Pilot Plant Coordinator Bio-based Projects
Operational manager
Pilot Plant
Experience with hydrolysis set up, destruction of dangerous components
Operations manager-manager pilot plant MP2
Chair member of Works Council Netherlands
(senior)-Chemist/project leader, (polymer chemistry, organic and biochemistry, process development)
Associate scientist, TU Eindhoven
Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, chemistry, and biochemistry

Additional courses/seminars/workshops:

Industrial Microbiology
Chemical engineering
Risk assessment DSM, Venlo
Process Safety, Linz Austria
Process Safety, Switzerland

Advisor for chemistry and scale-up of process Advisor for chemistry and scale-up of process
Freelance Advisor Nov 2023 – Present
Science advisor for Alka-Eco director Ludwig Marie Louis de Haan

Bert van Oijen

Marketing Advisor

Bert van Oijen

Worked for 40 years at the Dutch police academy as a coordinator of E-learning digital police education. And connected with fertilizer company’s in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Alex Lothian

Advisor heavy explosives and bio chemical destruction

Alex Lothian

24 years British Military.
Various units and advisory to London District military units, worked out of Whitehall.
NEW ZEALAND, advisory to military in transportation of hazardous chemicals and materials.
At the same time, he was overseeing his own training company, international transport manager.
Assessor for the NZ commercial road transport industry. And NZ qualifications authority.
In total, 41 years experience in the field of hazardous and chemical handling and disposal.
Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical warfare. (NBC) Instructor.

Johannes Spatz

Spatz-Consulting

Johannes Spatz

Your partner and problem solver in all matters relating to machine and occupational safety. Our aim is to make the modern working world safer, simplify value streams and improve them sustainably, so that you not only have more effectiveness in your company, but can also work in a safe and resource-efficient working environment.

Bertram Brenner

Advisor Fine Powder Processing Technologies

Bertram Brenner

Passion for fine powder processes, innovative, stable solutions for new products, or process optimization for existing lines. More than 30 years experience in the field of fine powder processing for chemicals (waxes, polymers), pharma (HPAPI, containment, excipients), metalls (powder for additive manufacturing), food (spices, protein concentrate, hydrocolloides), cosmetics and minerals (GCC, talc and wollastonite).