Off all the systems companies articles that get pushed out on a regular basis, I have highlighted this one as an important one. Important because the world and it's ever growing population has a very pressing need to become far more energy efficient than it is now, and more specifically our industry has to as [...]
Eurocell has recently won an award for ‘Materials Recycler of the Year (Large)’ category at the National Recycling Awards 2012. Just a quick change of point, how can an awards ceremony for the year be held half way through the year?! Anyway, part of the reason why Eurocell were given this award was for their [...]
>Eurocell have just opened their £3 million brand spanking new recycling centre in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. The facility is capable of processing 12,000 post consumer waste frames per week, adding up to an impressive 624,000 frames per year. This massive new operation put them at the forefront of PVCu recycling in the UK.In an industry which [...]
>PVCu recycling has been around in the industry for a few years now. Some post consumer waste goes towards being made into things such as insulation and other similar things. Some post consumer waste goes back into making new PVCu frames. So what direction does the industry need to take when it becomes too expensive and [...]
>If you haven't already heard, skip costs are set to jump a further 20% from Friday 1st April. Unfortunately this is not an April fools joke!The costs are rising because of annually increasing rates on landfill tax, and will continue to rise until 2014. The theory behind the rises is to try to wean the [...]
>The residual effect of an expanding 2nd and 3rd generation replacement window market is the creation of a potentially huge PVCu recycling sector.Companies like Veka and Ecoplas have put some real effort into getting set up to cope with the influx of this increasing market. And it's good for the industry too. Us installers get [...]
>Last week, when hoarding over 250 post-consumer PVCu frames into an Ecoplas big green skip, it hit me how much we are saving on skips.If we weren't doing all the recycling we are doing now, we would still be using way too many skips for our own good. In fact we're now probably using over [...]
>There is going to be a point where old PVCu windows and doors may become 2nd generation PVCu windows and doors through recycling. Obviously, not all PVCu that gets removed will become the same product again. But as more and more recycled PVCu weaves it's way into everyday life, and the more the production of [...]
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