BRE ANNOUNCES REVOLUTIONARY NEW SUSTAINABLE PANEL PRODUCT
COULD MEET SERVICE LIFE DEMANDS OF 60 YEARS
Dr Ed Suttie, Director of the Timber Division at BRE (Building Research Establishment), has announced the BRE test and evaluation results which conclude that Medite Tricoya®, a ground-breaking new composite panel product from Accsys Technologies and Coillte Panel Products, could meet demands for a desired service life of 60 years when used in exterior applications. BRE tests confirm Medite Tricoya® as a homogenous, dimensionally stable, biologically durable and easy-to-machine composite wood product which, through long service life and extended maintenance, could present a significant sustainability advantage over existing materials.
Dr Suttie said, “Medite Tricoya® presents a unique proposition… In my view, this is an extremely exciting and significant development for the industry and one that presents a new class of material which has great opportunity to capture new markets, and regain old, from non-wood based competitors as well as substitution of old products.”
Dr Suttie, highly experienced in the field of wood modification technologies, has worked for many years on acetic anhydride modification of solid wood. He highlighted that one of the chief challenges for the industry has been to create a uniform product for both manufacturers and end-users. Medite Tricoya® achieves on both accounts and delivers a uniform and reliable substrate with a “new degree of reliability in exterior and wet interior applications with excellent design freedom opportunities.”
Medite Tricoya® marks one of the first true innovations in the wood composites industry in more than 30 years.
GREEN KING AWARD FOR CLOSED LOOP RECYCLING
Plastic Recycling Guru Honoured in Management Today Cisco Awards Chris Dow, Managing Director, Closed Loop Recycling, was named as the winner of the Green King category in the inaugural Business Heroes Awards celebrating shining examples of the UK’s most enterprising small businesses. The contest to find the UK’s most resilient businesses, in association with Management Today, saw Cisco award the title of ‘Business Heroes’ to six firms from across the UK and in a variety of sectors including recruitment, sustainability, technology and manufacturing. Six other companies were also named as highly commended in each category.
“This is a fantastic vindication of both the dedication of the Closed Loop Recycling team and to the vision of our partners and investors,” comments Chris Dow. “I am thankful to all involved.”
Closed Loop Recycling’s facility in Dagenham is the World’s first food grade mixed plastic bottle recycling plant. State-of-the-art sorting and reprocessing technology enables it to sort, granulate, wash and super-clean 35,000 tonnes of recovered plastic bottles, including milk and soft drink bottles which are typically from local authority collections, and turn them back into recycled raw material for new food and drink packaging. The plant diverts a significant amount of waste from both landfill and export and saves up to 52,500 tonnes of CO2 per annum.
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