"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 [...]

Successful series of events: PVC recyclers meet PVC processors

Last week, the third and last regional meeting of the series of events "PVC recyclers meet PVC processors" took place this year in Erlangen at REHAU. AGPU and VinylPlus launched the network meetings in 2012, thereby further advancing PVC recycling in Germany. The meeting in Erlangen was now the tenth event and also enjoyed [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

PVC recycling campaign: terratec review and new website

terratec 2017 took place at the Leipzig Exhibition Centre at the beginning of April. The industry trade fair with more than 3,000 trade visitors and 128 exhibitors from six countries is considered the new meeting place for the waste management, recycling and resource industry. Aktion PVC-Recycling was also represented at terratec with a joint stand. Dr. Jochen Zimmermann, Managing Director of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft PVC-Bodenbelag Recycling (AgPR) and [...]