Rewindo: Plastic window recycling in figures 2019
"Since its foundation, Rewindo has been able to increase the annual recycling volume from old windows sevenfold to around 35,000 tonnes to date," said Michael Vetter, Managing Director of Rewindo GmbH, when presenting the new recycling figures for 2019. According to the figures, the collected volume (including metal, glass residues, etc.) of old windows, shutters and doors was 47,169 tonnes last year. The [...]
PVC recycler meeting with record participation
Last week, the third and last regional meeting of our successful series of events "PVC recyclers meet PVC processors" took place this year. Around 30 recycling experts from the entire PVC value chain came to Hündgen Entsorgung in Swisttal on Thursday to talk to each other about recycling and to discuss their respective offerings and needs [...]
Rewindo: Growth in regional collection points
As Rewindo announced last week, the number of regional collection points for smaller quantities of disused plastic windows, roller shutters and doors has been further expanded from 29 to 36 locations. The regional collection points supplement the nationwide collection service for dismantled plastic windows, roller shutters and doors, in particular by also collecting smaller quantities of less than ten windows [...]
Rewindo: 200 old plastic windows recycled
The old health centre in Primnitz is currently being demolished. Until the fall of communism, the six-storey building, built in 1972, served as a polyclinic for the local chemical fibre factory and once housed 14 medical departments. In 1990, the city took over the facility and established a health centre there. After the construction of a new medical centre two years ago, the building stood empty, now the [...]
Record-breaking project in Hesse: Over 3,100 old PVC windows recycled
Following major projects in Hamburg, Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, the largest window recycling project in Hesse has now been realised. As part of a three-year modernisation of the "Platensiedlung" residential area in the Frankfurt district of Ginnheim, the building owner had more than 3,100 old PVC windows replaced with new, energy-saving plastic windows. The old window elements were recycled 1:1. After completion of the recycling process, they were used to make technical [...]
PVC recyclers meet PVC processors: New dates
This year, the successful series of events "PVC recyclers meet PVC processors" is going into a new round. VinylPlus®, AGPU, AgPR, Rewindo, IVK Europe and Roofcollect® are once again jointly inviting PVC recyclers and PVC processors to talk to each other about their respective offers and needs on three dates in different regions. The kick-off will take place on 27 June 2019 from 10 [...]
Best Practice for the Environment: Documentation published
In the summer, the "Best Practice for the Environment" campaign by AGPU, Rewindo and AgPR came to an end after two years. Its aim: to identify and accompany recycling projects in the demolition, dismantling and deconstruction sector, where, for example, old PVC windows or PVC floor coverings accumulate and are recycled via the recycling systems of AgPR and Rewindo. A 28 [...]
First recycling project for old windows in Bremen
The modernisation of the "Wohlers Eichen" housing estate in Bremen shows how disused plastic windows can be recycled in an environmentally friendly way during energy-related renovations. The housing company Vonovia SE is currently having the buildings near the free ports of the Hanseatic city with 256 flats renovated in four construction phases. Among other things, the façades are being given additional thermal insulation and new, energy-saving plastic windows. The approximately [...]
Best practice for the environment: 700 windows replaced
The energetic refurbishment of the secondary school in Jessen (Elster) is considered an instructive example in environmental matters. The three-storey main building and a two-storey front building from 1978 will receive modern thermal insulation for the facades and intermediate ceilings to the roof by 2019 while the school remains in operation. Furthermore, new plastic windows with triple glazing now ensure an additional improvement in the [...]
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 [...]