Ökosil

Ökosil is an Estonian environmental services company. It manages large environmental remediation projects, including the environmental remediation of the Sillamäe radioactive waste repository, and provides environmental consulting, environmental monitoring and geotechnical monitoring.

Its monitoring laboratory is accredited by the Estonian Accreditation Centre and covers sampling and analysis of surface, ground and waste water, outdoor air and emissions, workplace conditions such as ventilation, humidity, dust, noise and lighting, and radiation, including alpha, beta and gamma radiation, aerosols and radon. The company's main cooperation partners named on its site include Wismut GmbH, NEFCO, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the US Department of Energy and STUK.

Ökosil was founded in 1998 by the Estonian state and AS Silmet Grupp. The Republic of Estonia holds 35% of the shares and AS Silmet Grupp holds 65%. Its technical base is in Sillamäe, and it has a department in Tallinn. The website states that 18 people work at the company. From 1999 to 2008 it ran the waste repository remediation project management unit, which closed on completion of that project.

Product: Project management for environmental remediation, environmental and geotechnical monitoring, environmental consulting, and accredited laboratory analysis.