DOORS&WINDOWS
NOISY, VIOLENT AND EXPENSIVE: PROUD TO
COMPLETE PHASE 2 OF PLANT DEVELOPMENT
» VEKA RECYCLING LTD HAS
completed the installation of plant at its
new Wellingborough PVC-U recycling
facility, the crucial ‘Phase 2’ of a two-year
site development programme. The new
installation, costing £2.5 million, is the crucial
initial stage of the recycling process that
accepts post-consumer frames collected from
installers around the country, removes metals
and hammers the old frames into manageable
fragments before further refinement.
The installation, that includes 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. Due
for completion later this year, the facility,
which will have cost more than £10 million
in total, will become the most advanced of
its type when it becomes fully operational.
The company is already supplying high-grade
recycled polymer for remanufacture into
window frames, electrical accessories and
building components but will be totally selfsufficient
when completed.
The result of a continued commitment to
the UK by VEKA Group, the Wellingborough
plant has been built from the ground up
after a long search for an appropriate site
and in a process that will have taken two
years to complete. Simon Scholes, Managing
Director of VEKA Recycling Ltd and who
has managed the project throughout, says
this has been a most exciting period: “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. When we lifted the first frames on to the
conveyor in what is a very noisy and violent
process, it was music to our ears,” he said.
Despite the nature of the processes
involved the VEKA Recycling plant is highly
sophisticated and will be linked to the Group’s
other sites in Germany – which was the first of
its type to be built in Europe in 1994 - France
and the Sendenhorst head office, in order to
closely monitor and balance operations.
veka-recycling.co.uk
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