Veka Recycling is at last looking forward to fulfilling its mission of explaining the benefits of PVC-U recycling at the FIT Show after two years of anti-pandemic lockdowns restricted it from showing off its newly built Wellingborough reprocessing plant.
The company’s team is on stand K21 throughout this year’s FIT Show to show and discuss the technology by which old windows and offcuts become brand new products, including new window profiles, within days of being collected and returned to Wellingborough, and how such material actually improves new PVC-U profiles when combined with virgin material.
The team will also advise how homeowners are increasingly interested and impressed to learn that their old PVC-U frames will be re-used, thus alleviating fears about plastic pollution and how such positive messages should be used to secure sales. Crucially, installers and fabricators may also discuss how they can avoid the perils of unwittingly committing waste fraud, by returning old PVC-U frames and virgin offcuts to VEKA Recycling.
Simon Scholes, managing director of Veka Recycling says that the discussions around recycling have moved on significantly in the past two years: “The window and door industry is a different place even since the last FIT Show and that includes homeowners’ attitudes towards the broader issues of sustainability and what happens to their old frames when they are removed. FIT Show provides an ideal opportunity to answer any questions visitors may have about this increasingly important subject.”
