Recycling production scrap
Progress status
| 🚀 STAGE | Study 🡆 Lab test 🡆 Pilot trial 🡆 LAUNCH 🡆 Upscaling |
| 📈 NEXT STEP | Further upscale scrap recycling across our 5 production facilities |
Project description
What is it?
Manufacturing scrap is discarded or rejected material from production processes like cutting when insulation material is cut into panels. Our objective is to recover the material that is left and would otherwise go to the landfill or the incinerator for energy recovery, and reuse or recycle it elsewhere.
How do we do it?
Unfortunately, we cannot reuse or recycle the solid material in our own production process. Therefore, we work with a partner in each of the countries where our plants are located to mechanically recycle the scraps in the production of construction boards.
“Sawdust from our cutting line is recovered and compressed into briquettes, which are in their turn used as a high-quality raw material for the production of construction boards.”
The result
In our Belgian plant we already recycle 100% of our PU scrap and 98% of our total production waste, and the remaining 2% goes to an energy recovery facility or a landfill. From our Finnish plant, nothing ends up in landfill sites. Our plant in France already performs well in terms of PU scrap recycling. In the UK, all our production waste from Stoke on Trent and most of our waste from Gradient is turned into energy.