Meltog Shredder Boosts Window Recycling Rates for Social Enterprise

Elixir Foundations, a United Kingdom-based social enterprise that offers job training to disadvantaged people, has announced that one of its divisions, a window recycling business entity, expects to process more than 3,500 metric tons of PVC-U window frames in 2011 through the use of a shredder manufactured by Meltog.

According to a news release, the tonnage processed is 2,500 metric tons more PVC-U than when Elixir recycled window frames and doors by hand.

“We pride ourselves in offering customers innovative and effective waste management systems. This machine is helping Elixir really boost their production rates and demonstrates the level of specialist engineering expertise that we can offer,” says Paul Glover, Meltog’s ground sales director.

“Our staff used to sort all of the PVC-U that came to us by hand. The shredder from Meltog has made an amazing difference and is really boosting our production rates. It saves even more of this material going to landfill and cuts CO₂ emissions, while also creating employment opportunities,” says Jennifer Kelly, director of Elixir Foundations.

The PVC-U recycling division of Elixir Foundation processes window frames and doors to be refined into granules and fine powders so they can be recycled and manufactured into new windows, doors and other plastic products.
More information on the Meltog shredder may be obtained by visiting www.meltog.com.