About us

Who we are and who’s behind AlkaEco

We are a Dutch-German company that produces Alka Eco Liquification Innovations, in cooperation with specialized experts. Our customers include existing funeral businesses, crematories, hospitals, and new entrepreneurs from around the world.

The people behind our company are specialists with long careers in industrial engineering, pressure vessel design and manufacturing, construction engineering, bio-organic chemistry, chemical industries, process technology, chemistry, medical fields, maintenance, and safety technology.

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:

  1. The latest Alka Eco Liquification Systems, an innovative energy recall system, will be developed and produced in April 2024. We started to experiment in 2018.
  2. We are in progress with rvo.nl funding for our Dutch buyers.
  3. This is going to be the first Alka Eco Liquification Energy Recall System built in the Netherlands and Germany for humans, with separate units for pet animals, establishing a precedent.
  4. The new April 2024 energy recall system, which comes way above the NASA TRL9 level, will be a huge energy-saving system, up to 45% energy-saving, and the most advanced system in the world. Reusing effluent is possible; it depends on government decisions. Back 2 Nature 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. So, we can return to nature.
  5. The deceased can be placed in the unique PUUR coffin (see the product gallery from Alka Eco Human). No one in the world can offer this.
  6. Further innovations in the world include the mobile drug destruction unit, the destruction unit for illegal fireworks, and the mobile unit for the destruction of chemical and biological weapons.

Our team of specialists

Luc de Haan
Luc de Haan
Founder / Developer / Director
  • 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
Emmo Meijer
Honorary advisor to Luc de Haan

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
Jeroen Konings
Advisor for chemistry

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 Luc de Haan

Bert van Oijen
Bert van Oijen
Marketing Advisor

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.

Ben Schneider
Ben Schneider
Bader Anlagenbau GmbH

Bader Metallbau GmbH and the associated companies. We have been working together for our customers since 1921.
Our customer orientation is an important part of what we do. Social commitment for our employees. Creativity, maximum flexibility, quality and adherence to deadlines are our goals.

Alex Lothian
Alex Lothian
Advisor heavy explosives and bio chemical destruction
  • 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

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
Bertram Brenner
Advisor Fine Powder Processing Technologies

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).