Veka Group CEO Andreas Hartleif has officially opened The new Veka Recycling plant – some 15 months after the £15million facility went live, when ever-changing Covid restrictions allowed the global head of the group to travel to the UK to carry out the formal opening.

With the rules finally dropped for travel to the UK, Herr Hartleif made the trip to inspect the Northamptonshire site, the third to be built by Veka since 1993 advanced. He was accompanied by Norburt Bruns, Veka Recycling Group Chairman and Managing Director of Veka Umwelttechnik GmbH, the division of which Veka Recycling Ltd is a part, UK Managing Director Simon Scholes, and Operations Director Edward Lipinski-Barltrop.

Restating Veka Group’s commitment to a holistic approach towards PVC-U, the CEO told staff that the UK remained one of the company’s most significant markets: “As one of the World’s largest users of PVC-U the UK remains a key market for Veka Group. As such it is important for UK to be as self-sufficient as possible, and now served by a recycling facility that allows the full processing of PVC-U without the need for transport overseas. The completion of this site has been a remarkable achievement, against the toughest conditions created by the global pandemic, and also for advancing the quality of material now achievable through recycling end-of-life frames.”

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