INDUSTRY NEWS
VEKA choose Britain for Europe’s most advanced recycling plant
VEKA Recycling Ltd have announced an £8 million investment for the construction of the most advanced plant in Europe.
The plant, which will be located at Wellingborough in Northampton, will be dedicated to recycling PVC-U window and door profi les.
VEKA Recycling UK – a wholly-owned division of VEKA Umwelttechnik – which opened in 2007 in Kent, will lead the multi- million pound facility, which will be ready to accept and convert UK virgin and post-consumer windows into re-usable polymer.
Simon Scholes, Veka Recycling UK Commercial Director, said: “The Wellingborough plant will be built from scratch, to take advantage of the latest recycling technologies.
“This will give us the ability to produce the highest quality polymer for use in a range of construction products, including brand new window and doorframe profi les.
Material from all over the UK
“We are recycling material from all over the UK, which is open to window installers, fabricators and waste fi rms who have PVC windows that can be recycled.”
VEKA UK Managing Director, Tony Cattini added: “We will have the ability to promote and deliver PVC-U windows as truly sustainable, at a time when plastic generally is under close scrutiny.”
VEKA will provide a bin [to window installers, fabricators and waste fi rms] into which any type of PVC-U can be thrown - old or
new, complete with gaskets, handles and reinforcements but less the glass, then we simply collect it from premises when it is full.”
Rubber, metals and other impurities will all be separated from the PVC-U to enable re-manufacture as part of the most sophisticated process of its type anywhere in Europe.
MD Tony Cattini continued: “This is a real-world commitment by the VEKA Group towards the UK, and recognition of the continued importance of the market post-Brexit.”
The company pioneered PVC-U recycling in Europe with its fi rst plant opening in Behringen, Germany, in 1993 – with a further facility opened in France, in 2006.
The combined capacity of the three plants will exceed 100,000 tonnes of PVC-U windows a year.
The news of VEKA UK’s £8 million PVC-U recycling plant coincides with Beauparc Utilities £13 million investment to also build a new plastics recycling facility in the UK.
Beauparc’s facility will be based in Leicestershire, and will be run by waste management fi rm Panda, a subsidiary of the Irish Beauparc Utilities group.
Beauparc chose the UK as opposed to building the plastic recycling plant in Ireland due to permit delays.
Eamon Waters, CEO of Beauparc, said: “The new facility, which will slot in with Beauparc’s growing UK presence, will employ approximately 40 people and will process waste plastic fi lms from both Ireland and the UK into new plastic products.”
Harry Hustler appointed at HARSH
HARSH have added to their national Business Development Team by making a key appointment in South East England.
Harry Hustler, 29, takes on the role from March 1st
with the specifi c aim to build the hydraulic equipment company’s business base across East Anglia, London, the Home Counties and the South Coast.
He said: “HARSH is a growing company that will be exciting to work for. The job is both a challenge and a great opportunity.
“I value the fact that we are a small team, working together, with everything to play for.
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I really look forward to meeting all my area’s HARSH operators, while steadily strengthening our customer base into the future.”
Starting his career as a graduate management trainee with Hargreaves Services plc, Harry has fi ve years of experience at the ‘sharp end’ of the bulk haulage transport sector. His activities included customer liaison, contract management and running a fl eet of sub-contractors.
Based in St. Albans, Harry takes on responsibility for all HARSH product lines including tipping cylinders, sheeting systems, hook loaders, and skip loaders.
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