PVC recycling: record-breaking project in Franconia
At the end of October 2017, the starting signal was given for what is in some respects a record-breaking construction project. In Schweinfurt, a former settlement of the US armed forces, now owned by the city, is currently being demolished and replaced by a new development. By 2019, work on the 28-hectare site with 34 three-storey residential rows and 13 semi-detached houses is expected to [...]
PVC recyclers meet PVC processors: Next meeting on 23.11.
After two successful events in Troisdorf at Gerflor and in Porta Westfalica at Tönsmeier, the third event is now scheduled for 23 November 2017 in Erlangen at Rehau. AGPU and VinylPlus launched the network meetings a few years ago to bring both PVC recyclers and PVC processors into conversation with each other. The aim is to meet [...]
Plastics recycling: EuPC publishes survey results
In May this year, the European Plastics Converters' Association (EuPC) had launched an extensive survey on the use of recycled plastics. Now the results have been presented. Around 500 participants from 28 countries took part. According to the survey, the most important hurdle to the use of recycled material in new applications is the quality of the available recycled material. Around 60 per cent [...]
Offer of the PVC Recycling Finder further expanded
After the last major update of the PVC Recycling Finder in January, AGPU has now further expanded the information platform. In particular, the interactive map with around 60 PVC recycling companies listed in the Finder has been revised. In addition, a news section with current articles on PVC recycling has been added to the website. Since the founding of the PVC Recycling Finder, [...]
Third Recycling Meeting on 23 November in Erlangen
After two successful meetings in Troisdorf (Gerflor) in June and in Porta Westfalica (Tönsmeier) in September, the third regional dialogue event is now scheduled for 23 November 2017 in Erlangen at Rehau. AGPU and VinylPlus initiated the network meetings a few years ago in order to bring PVC recyclers and PVC processors into conversation with each other, to meet directly and [...]
Second recycling meeting was a complete success
At the beginning of September 2017, the second regional meeting of the series of events "PVC recyclers meet PVC processors" by AGPU and VinylPlus took place in Minden/Porta Westfalica. With over 30 participants, the event was very well attended. In line with the concept of the event series, they took the opportunity to briefly introduce themselves with their offers and their respective needs. In personal discussions, it was then possible [...]
"Best Practice" in Chemnitz - exemplary handling of old building materials
The renovation work at the residential centre of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB), Ortsverband Chemnitz und Umgebung e.V., in Rembrandtstraße in Chemnitz must be carried out with particular care. Because 32 people with severe physical disabilities currently live in the 23 flats of house 2 of the facility, whose daily routine is to be disturbed as little as possible by the construction work. No easy task, because the [...]
New raw material from old windows: resource efficiency in energy refurbishment in Wülfrath
The extraction of raw materials has a long tradition in Wülfrath in the Bergisches Land. Situated in the middle of Europe's largest limestone mining area, limestone was already quarried and fired here in the Middle Ages. To this day, the raw material is supplied from Wülfrath to the construction and steel industries, among others. The quarrying of raw materials is perhaps not the first thing one thinks of in an energy [...]
Strengthening recycling together - meeting on 6 September in Porta Westfalica
The importance of PVC recycling continues to increase - on the one hand due to legal framework conditions such as the European Circular Economy Package with its own plastics strategy, and on the other hand due to the volume targets of the VinylPlus voluntary commitment of the European PVC industry. At our successful series of events "PVC recyclers meet PVC processors", you have the opportunity to present yourself and your company with your products and your needs, [...]
13,000 sqm of old PVC flooring recycled
In a shopping centre near Leipzig, a total of 13,000 square metres of old PVC floor coverings were produced as part of a major conversion and renovation project. The demolition company in charge of the disposal deliberately decided not to simply incinerate the supposed construction waste, but to recycle the old material. In this way, new PVC products can be created from the old floors. "That [...]