Veka Recycling’s new £15m recycling plant is now open. The Wellingborough site was officially opened by Veka Group’s CEO, Andreas Hartleif, 15 months after the facility came fully on stream.
The project was completed against the backdrop of ever-changing Covid-19, travel and other restrictions. As such, the German-based global head of the Veka Group could not travel to the UK to carry out the formal opening until now.
The Northamptonshire site is the third to be built by Veka since 1993, and Europe’s most advanced. Andreas was accompanied by Norburt Bruns, Veka Recycling’s group chair, and managing director of Veka Umwelttechnik GmbH, the specialist division of which Veka Recycling is a part, UK managing director Simon Scholes, and operations director Edward Lipinski-Barltrop.
Restating Veka Group’s commitment to a holistic approach towards PVC-U, Andreas told staff that the UK remained one of the company’s most significant markets. He said: “As one of the world’s largest users of PVC-U, the UK remains a key market for Veka Group. As such, it is important for UK to be as self-sufficient as possible, and is now served by a recycling facility that allows the full processing of PVC-U without the need for transport overseas.
“The completion of this site has been a remarkable achievement, against the toughest conditions created by the global pandemic, and also for advancing the quality of material now achievable through recycling end-of-life frames.” The Wellingborough plant can process over 35,000 tonnes of PVC-U into high-quality recycled PVC-U pellet, increasing the volumes which are now used in brand-new window and door profiles.
