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SECOND TIME ROUND
DOESN’T MEAN SECOND BEST
Eurocell, the UK’s lead-
FIREX PROVES HUGE
SUCCESS FOR GGF
FIREX International proved a
great success for the Glass
and Glazing Federation (GGF),
as the glass industry’s leading
trade body was inundated with
enquiries on fire resistant glazing.
The GGF had its big-
gest ever platform at this
year’s FIREX with a 30m²
stand that included three
full size product exhibits
showing the various stages
of the fire-resistant glazing
process, as well as glass
performance before and
after the effects of smoke
and fire. It certainly was
an attention grabber with
constant visitors to the
stand from local coun-
cils, emergency services,
training, health and safety
companies, construction
companies, media, archi-
tects, specifiers and building
managers.
Steve Bond, Chair of
the Fire Resistant Glaz-
ing Group added, “I was
pleased to see the GGF have
a much enhanced presence
at this year’s FIREX. The live
exhibits showing the effects
of fire and smoke captured
the imagination of visitors
and the GGF video show-
ing fire resistant glazing in
action also attracted interest.
With so many enquiries, it
has clearly been a worth-
while show and one I hope
the GGF can repeat next
year. I can’t emphasize
enough how important
it is to educate all those
responsible for fire safety
in buildings, on the correct
specification, installation
and performance of Fire
Resistant Glazing.”
To find out more about
the GGF’s Fire Resistant
Glazing Group please visit:
https://www.ggf.org.uk/
groups/glazing-executive-
groups/fire-resistant-
glazing-group/
To find out more about
GGF Fire Resistant
Glazing Training please
visit: https://www.ggf.org.
uk/training/fire-resistant-
glazing-training/
ing manufacturer, distributor
and recycler of PVC-U win-
dow, door, conservatory and
roofline systems, is rebrand-
ing its Ecoplas recycling
business to bring it into the
Eurocell Recycle stable.
Ecoplas, formerly the
largest independent PVC-U
recycler in the country,
was acquired by Eurocell
in August 2018. As a result,
between its consolidated
operations in Ilkeston and
Selby, Eurocell Recycle
now offers the largest and
most complete closed-
loop process in the UK for
collecting and processing
used PVC-U frames to be
re-extruded and turned into
new windows, doors and
building products; prevent-
ing thousands of tonnes of
PVC-U waste from entering
landfill and helps reduce the
industry’s reliance on new
raw materials.
Products manufactured
from recycled PVC-U are
actually stronger than those
made with virgin plastic
because of the chemi-
cal transformation of the
polymers it contains when
it goes through the recy-
cling process. Research also
shows it can be recycled up
to ten times with no degra-
dation in quality, giving it a
lifespan in the construction
industry of 350 years.
Eurocell Head of Mar-
keting Chris Coxon com-
mented, “We’ve always been
a leader in recycling and
sustainable manufactur-
ing, as our investment of
over £10m in our recycling
facilities over the last ten
years demonstrates. The
more effectively we can get
the message out to the trade
that second time around
doesn’t means second best,
and the easier we can make
it for them to send their
waste frames for recycling,
the better the industry can
be for the environment.”
www.eurocell-recycle.co.uk
Veka Recycling website gets a refresh
VEKA Recycling Ltd has launched a fresh new website that is in
keeping with the continuing construction of what will be Europe’s
most advanced PVC-U window and door recycling facility.
Using new photogra-
phy and graphics, the
website describes VEKA
Recycling’s role in the re-
processing of virgin offcuts
and post-consumer and in-
dustrial end-of-life windows
and doors and how the
company is highly adept
at working with fabricators
and installers to turn waste
products into new. Cru-
cially, through the website
VEKA Recycling empha-
sises just how simple the
company makes it for old
frames to be recycled, for
the increasingly important
benefits to the environment
of course, but actually as a
sound business proposition
too.
In keeping with the in-
creased importance of web-
sites as the first impression
that new customers may
have of a company, a great
deal of emphasis has been
placed on making the new
site easy to navigate and,
actually, stimulating to use.
Facts about the company
including its development
in the UK and also Ger-
many – VEKA was the first
in Europe to create such a
facility in 1993 – are dis-
played in a style that takes
the user seamlessly from
one page to the next.
VEKA Recycling’s Welling-
borough plant is scheduled
to become fully operational
from early 2020. Whilst
the plant currently recycles
material from over 90,000
windows each month, fur-
ther stages are being added
that will enable the full
processing and separation
of rubber, metals and other
impurities from PVC-U,
entirely on site.
veka-recycling.co.uk