Environmental Magazine: "Established recycling of PVC building products".
In the current July issue of UMWELTMAGAZINS (Springer-VDI-Verlag), a new technical article by AGPU Managing Director Thomas Hülsmann and AGPU editor Michael Friedrichs on the topic of "Established recycling of PVC construction products" was published on pages 27 and 28. Due to the positive response in the past, the AGPU has also decided to publish the technical article as an offprint. The article is [...]
AGPU: 30 years for PVC
There was no way around the foundation of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft PVC und Umwelt e.V. (AGPU) 30 years ago. This has not changed to this day, even if the times when the material and products made of PVC were particularly criticised are now a thing of the past. Thanks to the long-standing commitment of AGPU member companies from the entire PVC value chain to [...]
Cologne flat owners become raw material suppliers for window production
Work on the residential complex Alte Apotheke/corner of Schmittgasse in the Cologne district of Zündorf is now in its final stages. As part of an energy-efficient refurbishment of the building, which was constructed in the early 1980s, around 600 old PVC windows are being replaced with new, highly insulating plastic windows with modern GEALAN profiles from the window manufacturer Meeth in Wittlich. The special feature of this KfW-subsidised [...]
Esslingen-based waste disposal company Scherrieble collects old plastic windows for recycling
The recycling of valuable raw materials is known to conserve resources and protect our climate by reducing CO2 emissions. What applies to glass and paper also applies to the recycling of old plastic windows, roller shutters and doors. The Esslingen-based waste disposal company Scherrieble Recycling GmbH & Co. KG has recognised this for some time and has been collecting old PVC frames for [...]
Urban mining: 600 old PVC windows removed and recycled
In Würzburg, ten flat blocks with 144 flats and a floor area of around 15,000 square metres are currently being demolished. The buildings were erected between 1950 and 1956 and no longer met today's requirements for environmental protection and living ambience. A municipal housing company therefore decided to demolish and rebuild residential properties according to modern standards. As part of the measures [...]
PVC recycling campaign at the Demolition Conference
The 24th Demolition Conference at the beginning of March was not only a great success for the German Demolition Association as organiser, but also for the PVC Recycling campaign. The initiative, in which AGPU, AgPR, EPCOAT, KRV, Rewindo, Roofcollect and VinylPlus® are also involved as partners, was once again present at the international industry gathering in Berlin with a joint stand [...]
PVC Recycling Campaign at the 24th Demolition Conference
The 24th Demolition Conference will take place in Berlin from 2 to 3 March 2018. This year, Aktion PVC-Recycling will again be represented with a joint stand. In addition to the AGPU, other partners are participating in the initiative, including Rewindo, the AgPR and Roofcollect. This year, the German Demolition Association as organiser expects [...]
Window renovation at Troisdorf Industrial Park - Old windows provide new raw material
Building 56 in the Troisdorf Industrial Park, also known as the "House of Technology", was the control centre of HT Troplast AG for many years. Today, the building houses the administration of profine GmbH, one of the leading manufacturers of plastic window profiles. To make the building fit for the future, the more than 200 old windows are currently being replaced [...]
"Best Practice" enters the final stage in spring
After running for almost 1.5 years, the campaign "Best Practice for the Environment" will enter the home stretch next spring. Its primary purpose is to identify exemplary building projects, especially in the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, in which discarded PVC building products such as windows or floor coverings are recycled and reused. The initiators - PVC Working Group and [...]
Solid protection for the "Kinis" chambers
Majestically perched on a rock, Neuschwanstein Castle rises above the Hohenschwangau plain near Füssen in a fairytale setting. King Ludwig II of Bavaria (the "Kini") had the building, which is modelled on the exterior of a medieval knight's castle, built from 1869 onwards at great expense and with great attention to detail. However, the eccentric monarch lived there after the castle was completed [...]