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News Release from: Centriforce Products
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2006
Plea For Waste Plastic To Be Recycled
Not Dumped
Its factory in Liverpool is working around the clock and its Stokbord sheet made from recycled polyethylene is in demand throughout the world.
Its factory in Liverpool is working around the clock and its Stokbord sheet made from recycled polyethylene is in demand throughout the world Stokbord is used for applications as diverse as park benches and underground cable covers
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Sep 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Yet plans to expand the Centriforce extruded plastics operation in Liverpool - one UK example of sustainable manufacturing - might be held back unless the company can persuade organisations that generate waste plastics to send their waste to them, and not to China or to landfill sites.
Over the past few years, Centriforce Products, one of Europe's largest independent extruders of recycled plastics, said that it has built up a market for its recycled sheet and board.
It believes it has helped to change the reputation of a product once thought of as inferior and low quality in to an award winning success, much valued for its superiority over traditional timber, concrete or metal.
And all from waste that might otherwise end up in the ground, added the company.
Much of that type of waste is now being shipped to China, where that country's thirst for any material is proving more lucrative for manufacturers and merchants than any UK market.
However, Centriforce said that the time has come to mobilise its own resources as well as those of the UK Government and environmental bodies in favour of keeping the home extruders working.
Simon Carroll, the managing director of Centriforce Products, said: "It is inconceivable that a successful business based on quality recycled materials that meets a growing demand for more sustainable, and in this instance, better, products is being denied the mountain of waste we generate in the UK because it is being shipped thousands of miles across the world." He added: "I urge all UK companies who have sizeable amounts of waste plastics such as pallet or shrink wrap, bubble wrap, garment covers, plastic bottles and film scrap to contact us immediately to discuss its removal to our Liverpool plant.".
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