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Noisy, violent and expensive but a joy to hear is how Veka Recycling's MD describes the process now taking part at the completed Phase 2 of plant development.

Substantial investment has come at the Wellingborough PVC-U recycling facility as part of a wide-ranging site development programme. The new installation, cost £2.5 million which has been spent on 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.

 “When we lifted the first frames onto the conveyor in what is a very noisy and violent process, it was music to our ears.”

– Simon Scholes 

Managing Director, VEKA Recycling

On time

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 reopened again.

Scholes has managed the project throughout. He continues: “For the 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."

More to come

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.

During lockdown, Veka Compounds, a division of Veka Recycling, was contacted by regular Marshall-Tufflex when the trunking and cable management manufacturer was asked by the NHS to provide a large quantity of its trunking to be used in the construction of Nightingale hospitals.

Wellingborough

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.

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.

Picture: Veka Recycling's new plant in action.

Article written by Cathryn Ellis
10th June 2020

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