The extraction of raw materials has a long tradition in W\u00fclfrath 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 W\u00fclfrath to the construction and steel industries, among others.<\/p>\n
The extraction of raw materials is perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about energy refurbishment, as has just been carried out on behalf of the municipal housing association GWG W\u00fclfrath GmbH at Mettmanner Stra\u00dfe 102 - 110. A total of 20 flats were made energetically fit by insulating the fa\u00e7ade and, last but not least, by installing the Thermo 6 plastic window system from Sch\u00fcco. However, GWG and the window construction company Brandenstein Bauelemente from Haan did not only focus on sustainable aspects during the installation. They are also focusing on resource efficiency: in this case, the almost 180 old PVC windows that have been removed serve as a reservoir for new raw material. They had served well on Mettmanner Stra\u00dfe since the 1970s. Now they are being recycled. The regranulate recovered from them not only goes to the building industry in good W\u00fclfrath tradition. Rather, it even closes a cycle. The regranulate is used again as a qualitatively equivalent raw material for the production of new window and building profiles.<\/p>\n
A process that fully convinced GWG and the window manufacturers from Brandenstein: \"In view of the impending scarcity of resources, recycling is a matter of course for us,\" says Martin Maurer from the technical property management department of GWG. Carsten Puley, Managing Director of Brandenstein, adds on behalf of his company: \"Recycling makes ecological and also economic sense for us. Therefore, we will continue to rely on the recycling of plastic windows in the future.\" The material recycling of used plastic windows from W\u00fclfrath is carried out by Dekura GmbH from H\u00f6xter in its state-of-the-art recycling plants. Window frames from all over Germany and Europe are recycled here.<\/p>\n
A tried-and-tested collection system with various containers enables the waste material to be taken over quickly and flexibly all over the country, as in W\u00fclfrath. After the separation of glass, metals, rubber seals, construction foams and other impurities, a PVC regrind is produced in the factory, which is used as the starting material for high-quality, almost 100 percent unmixed granulate. In the new window profiles, the recovered raw material, coated with virgin PVC material, can then be found as a recycled core.<\/p>\n
Dekura is one of the recycling partners of Bonn-based Rewindo GmbH, which has been organising the recycling of old plastic windows, roller shutters and doors nationwide since 2002 with growing success. In 2016, more than 29,000 tonnes of PVC pellets were recovered. This corresponds to almost 1.8 million recycled old windows. In addition, there are more than 74,000 tonnes of production waste. The tasks and measures of Rewindo GmbH are in line with the sustainability goals of the voluntary commitment of the European PVC industry, VinylPlus.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Die Rohstoffgewinnung hat im bergischen W\u00fclfrath eine lange Tradition. Mitten im gr\u00f6\u00dften Kalkstein-Abbaugebiet Europas gelegen, wurde hier bereits im Mittelalter Kalkstein gebrochen und gebrannt. Bis heute wird der Rohstoff von W\u00fclfrath aus unter anderem an die Bau- und Stahlindustrie geliefert. Der Abbau von Rohstoffen ist vielleicht nicht das Erste, an das man bei einer energetischen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,7],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dekura","tag-fensterrecycling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pvcrecyclingfinder.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}