Under one sail.

Planet-friendly companies.

We are 7 industrial brands, exploring sustainable crafts and inventing hi tech of avail.

Crafts.

We operate in the following fields
of knowledge:

Waste
recycling.

Management of hazardous waste of any type and volume.

Management of hazardous waste of any type and volume.

100000
100000

tons of especially dangerous substances

has been processed within 20 years.

Zaļā Josta

01

Management of environmentally harmful products.

Company ZalaJosta 6
Company ZalaJosta 8
Company ZalaJosta 4
JSC Zaļā Josta is caring for clean Latvia and responsible business activity in it.
Used packaging and electronics, environmentally harmful products are collected, recycled and goes into repeated circulation, thus our customers receive 100% exemption from Natural Resource Tax.
Founded in 2002.

BAO

02

Recycling
of hazardous waste.

Company BAO 2b
Company BAO 3
Company BAO 1
JSC BAO provides a complete service for the recycling of hazardous waste of any type.
The company's professionalism, capacity and innovative technologies enable it to cope with the most comple challenges complying with EU regulations.
Founded in 1996.

Auto
pārstrāde

03

End-of-life vehicle recycling.

Company AutoParstrade 5
Company AutoParstrade 8
Company AutoParstrade 7
JSC Auto pārstrāde was established in order to create an effective system for the disposal of old vehicles.
The largest processor of used vehicles in Latvia, recycling more than 6 000 cars annually. We are the leading enterprise in the industry, capable of recycling all used cars in Latvia.
Founded in 2004.

Phosphate dry benefitiation.

Climate-friendly fertilizers.

Climate-friendly fertilizers.

0 million

tons of ore

will be mined under the license in the next 30 years.

Geo
Resources

04

Extraction and enrichment of minerals.

Company GeoResources 1b
Company GeoResources 8
Company GeoResources 7
Phosphate benefitiation using innovative and scientifically based technologies.
The company extracts and enriches minerals at the Aznek Kuduk deposit, Kyzylkum Desert in Uzbekistan, providing the world with climate-neutral fertilizers crucial for green economy.
Founded in 2015.

Bio-based chemistry.

The first bio-based surfactants/polyol production facility in the Baltics.

The first bio-based surfactants/polyol production facility in the Baltics.

0 %

bio carbon
content.

0 days

biodegradable
cycle.

Wide range of biological cleaning products created from natural raw ingredients.

Happy Fish

05

Manufacturing of bio-based surfactants.

Company HappyFish 1
Company HappyFish 3
Company HappyFish 4
We invent and produce specialized cleaning products that do not harm the environment.
Happy Fish has proven that an environmentally friendly surfactants must have excellent cleaning properties. By the time wastewater enter waterways, our surfactants will have biodegraded.
Founded in 2019.

Polylabs

06

Sustainable
bio based
polyols.

Company Polylabs 1
Company Polylabs 2
Company Polylabs 3
Innovative chemical production company. Our expertise is bio polyols from sustainable resources.
Polylabs produce high-quality bio polyols from industrial-grade pine chemicals and rapeseed oils. We are proud that our bio polyols are true to their word and contain up to 83% bio content!
Founded in 2014.

AI deployment.

Bins
with
brains.

Bins
with
brains.

0

There's no such thing as trash, it's all resources.​

AI based
waste collection technologies.

Wingo Deposit

07

The first RVM for e-cigarettes ever made.

Company Wingo 2
Company Wingo 1
Company Wingo 4
Waste collection and processing technology capable of things no other similar machine can do. Made in Latvia.
WinGo system is the first in the world that recognises flattened packaging. Missing barcodes and labels – no problem for our machine. Keeping the nature free of vape batteries and microplastics is finally easy to do.
Founded in 2020.

Shared value.

Jānis Vilgerts Scholarship since 2013, under the management of Vitolu Foundation.

Shared Value 4
Shared Value 2
Shared Value 3
Honored to discover and support the best Latvian students in chemistry.
And our prodigy fellows, in turn, are the lifeblood of our common future on this planet.
Among
scholarship
holders.
These are some of our actual and former scholarship holders studying chemistry at Riga Technical University. Let’s wish them good luck, continue to develop and constantly grow.

The
people.

Management
of BAO Group.
Today, we are proud to build and sustain 7 innovative industrial brands, performing locally and globally, while providing maximum value to our land and society along the way.

The man
behind.

TheManBehind1
Jānis Vilgerts
I just do things I believe in.