VEKA Recycling is nearing its long-term goal of completing the entire PVC-U recycling in the UK after a further £2million investment at its Wellingborough base.
The investment marks the third phase of development for the site, which it opened in 2018, and will see the operation complete the entire process of recycling post-consumer and virgin offcuts without taking out of the UK at any stage when it is completed later this year.
The new equipment separates, refines, cleans and washes the various component materials. Among the machinery installed are Spaleck Recycling Screens, that vibrate and sieve the crushed frames, and Magnapower high performance Eddy Current Separators that sort ferrous and non-ferrous metals from the shredded UPVC window for re-sale.
Veka Recycling managing director Simon Scholes said: “These latest additions introduce refinement that results in the end product becoming more discernible as the materials that are our primary purpose.
“Our commitment to producing only the finest PVC-U compounds for re-manufacture into new window frames and other high-quality products, without reliance upon our sister plants, is brought a stage closer with the completion of this latest phase.”
The Wellingborough plant will be the third such facility to be built by Veka Umwelttechnik GmbH, the recycling subsidiary of the Veka AG Group. The company pioneered PVC-U recycling in Europe with its first plant opening in Behringen, Germany in 1993. A further facility was opened in France in 2006. The combined capacity of the three plants will exceed 100,000 tonnes of PVC-U windows a year.
