VEKA leads the way as one window comes home – recycled

VEKA is claiming a recycling world’s first after one old window was transformed into a new one using its technically-advanced recycling facility.
The PVC-U system supplier teamed up with Wigan & Leigh Housing and the Council’s own window factory and special status employer, Metrolite, to track the window to a unique recycling plant in Germany and back to the same tower block project.
The new-for-old initiative was an exercise to prove it can be done but the same thing could soon be happening all around More...





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