I enjoyed a fantastic trip to Deceuninck’s €15million recycling facility in Belgium last week, a tour that served to highlight the significant investment that the systems company has made to sustainability.
For Deceuninck’s managing director, Rob McGlennon, ‘sustainability will define the UK window and door industry in the next decade.’ That statement is backed up by an independent YouGov survey, commissioned by Deceuninck, that revealed 63% of homeowners would be more likely to purchase home improvement products that are more sustainable.
More importantly, 38% would be prepared to pay more for ‘greener’ home improvement products with a higher recycled content.
Deceuninck’s recycling facility, which is billed as one of the largest and most advanced in the world, has the capacity to reprocess up to 45,000 tonnes of post-consumer and post-manufacturing PVC a year. That’s the equivalent of preventing more than 3million windows from going to landfill annually.
But that is just one part of the story. Deceuninck has also committed to ambitious targets to reduce emissions through the corporate reduction scheme, Science Based Targets (SBTi). That includes a commitment to cut CO2 emissions from its own operations by 60% by 2030 (from a 2021 baseline) and reduce supply chain emissions by 48%
And product development is also part of Deceuninck’s sustainability strategy. That includes Phoenix, a new, 100% recycled window, and Elegant, an innovative, ultra-energy-efficient window and door system that was unveiled during last week’s tour of Deceuninck’s Belgian HQ.
Developed around a modular frame system, with five different sash options and three different frame depths, Elegant has been designed to deliver exceptional performance, is easier to recycle and is also compatible with ThermoFibra, Deceuninck’s glass fibre reinforcing technology – eliminating the requirement for steel reinforcement.
You can read all about it here.
Committed to a sustainable future
I enjoyed a fantastic trip to Deceuninck’s €15million recycling facility in Belgium last week, a tour that served to highlight the significant investment that the systems company has made to sustainability.
For Deceuninck’s managing director, Rob McGlennon, ‘sustainability will define the UK window and door industry in the next decade.’ That statement is backed up by an independent YouGov survey, commissioned by Deceuninck, that revealed 63% of homeowners would be more likely to purchase home improvement products that are more sustainable.
More importantly, 38% would be prepared to pay more for ‘greener’ home improvement products with a higher recycled content.
Deceuninck’s recycling facility, which is billed as one of the largest and most advanced in the world, has the capacity to reprocess up to 45,000 tonnes of post-consumer and post-manufacturing PVC a year. That’s the equivalent of preventing more than 3million windows from going to landfill annually.
But that is just one part of the story. Deceuninck has also committed to ambitious targets to reduce emissions through the corporate reduction scheme, Science Based Targets (SBTi). That includes a commitment to cut CO2 emissions from its own operations by 60% by 2030 (from a 2021 baseline) and reduce supply chain emissions by 48%
And product development is also part of Deceuninck’s sustainability strategy. That includes Phoenix, a new, 100% recycled window, and Elegant, an innovative, ultra-energy-efficient window and door system that was unveiled during last week’s tour of Deceuninck’s Belgian HQ.
Developed around a modular frame system, with five different sash options and three different frame depths, Elegant has been designed to deliver exceptional performance, is easier to recycle and is also compatible with ThermoFibra, Deceuninck’s glass fibre reinforcing technology – eliminating the requirement for steel reinforcement.
You can read all about it here.
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