Veka Recycling and Glazerite UK Group have signed an agreement for all the fabricator’s virgin offcut material and some post-consumer frames to be collected and recycled as part of a ‘perfect model’ of a circular economy arrangement in the window industry.
The deal sees frames removed from selected installation sites as well as offcuts from the fabricator’s Wellingborough, Peterborough and Bolton manufacturing operations and returned to Veka Recycling’s PVC-U reprocessing facility in Wellingborough.
With Veka’s Burnley extrusion facility now a large volume user of recycled pellet from its sister organisation, much of the material returned from Glazerite may be returned to them in the form of -new profiles to again be manufactured as new windows and doors.
Darren Rhodes, managing director of Glazerite’s North West Division, who led the negotiations for the new contract, said: “Inevitably there are offcuts from the production of new frames despite Glazerite using advanced manufacturing techniques throughout our facilities, but this material remains intrinsically valuable. We also have agreements on a number of installation sites for which we support installer customers, by removing old frames from site.
“Veka Recycling has provided a solution for Glazerite and a number of our customers, by efficiently removing the material through bins placed at our sites. This reduces disposal costs and contributes significantly to Glazerite’s commitment to reducing the company’s carbon footprint. It also enables us to support our customers by providing recycling facilities, now a commitment demanded by public sector and larger landlords for refurbishment projects.”
