KBE Launches Recycline

Profile manufacturer KBE has joined forces with Bristol-based Penfold Plastics Ltd to almost entirely eradicate waste from its customers’ production lines.

The Recycline initiative has been launched by KBE in partnership with Penfold Plastics to ensure that its PVC-u window profiles are efficiently recycled. The scheme, which is to be offered to all customers in the UK, will see Penfold Plastics buying waste profile, collecting, recycling and returning it to KBE’s parent company, Profine in Germany, to be re-processed.

Managing Director of Penfold Plastics, Peter Penfold explains, 'In the past, off-cuts and other waste profile has ended up as landfill. KBE fabricators that sign-up to the Recycline initiative will be able to boast a 100% reduction in waste PVC-u and also refer to their windows as sustainable.'

Penfold Plastics has invested in £400,000 worth of new equipment, including processing machinery and collection cages, to help roll this scheme out to window fabricators across the UK. Already a number of KBE customers have signed up to Recycline and the rest are expected to come on board by the end of the year.

James Robinson, KBE Sales Director, comments, 'We’re really excited to be launching this initiative which will further strengthen our position as Europe’s number one in the production of PVC-u window profiles. Recycline is a cost effective and responsible way for fabricators to dispose of their waste profile.'

Although the Recycline initiative has been planned for some time, the implementation of the project has been very timely for KBE. With new legislation over the disposal of non-hazardous waste from October 2007 and the proposed 270% increase in landfill tax expected in April 2008, all customers taking advantage of Recycline will reap the benefits with immediate effect.

James continues, 'The PVC industry Vinyl 2010 scheme, is actively encouraging those in the trade to realise how advantageous recycling is to all concerned. Penfold Plastics was heavily involved with the Vinyl 2010 charter from the outset and so was a natural partner for KBE to increase its environmental credentials.

'As more and more architects are insisting on using recyclable products, fabricators who are ‘certified’ by us as a sustainable fabricator, could attract a significant amount of new business.'

Penfold Plastics will make a prompt payment for collecting off-cuts and post-consumer waste directly from the customer. Where previously the fabricator has had to pay to dispose of this waste product, the Recycline initiative will see fabricators being rewarded for not disposing of the waste at all. Also, Penfold Plastics will provide all the relevant paperwork for waste disposal proving an auditable paper trail in compliance with the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Any KBE fabricators looking to sign up to the scheme immediately can contact Peter Penfold on 01934 832 711.

KBE can be found at stand D35 at Glassex