Two big steps
23rd June 2020

VEKA RECYCLING is celebrating two steps forward with the ompletion of the installation of plant at its new £10 million Wellingborough PVC-U recycling facility and the return of its fleet of collection vehicles on the road after being grounded in the lockdown.

The new£2.5 million installation, including site preparation, a purpose-built housing, silo, heavy-duty conveyors and the machinery that breaks down the frames, has been completed on schedule despite the Coronavirus lockdown and in time to receive the first batch of frames as the company’s gates reopen again.

Veka Recycling’s articulated, demountable forklift-equipped vehicles, together with 10-tonne box trucks, are once again completing their regular routes as installers get back to work installing new windows, doors and conservatories and returning the old frames for reprocessing. Once received, the old windows will have metals such as reinforcement and hardware removed, with the frames passing through several stages before being supplied again as high quality polymer to extruders for re-manufacture into a range of products. These include PVC-U window and door profiles and others that include products for the electrical and building industry.

The Wellingborough plant will have taken two years to complete. Managing Director Simon Scholes said: “Despite the Coronavirus lockdown we reduced to minimal staff for a month, opening for more regular business from May 1st. Despite this our engineers have managed to complete the construction work and plant installation on time.”