Dr. Jochen Zimmermann
Managing Director of the Association for PVC Floor-Covering Recycling
“We operate the only recycling system worldwide that has been recycling PVC floor coverings continuously for over 20 years. We have managed to completely do without public subsidies until now due to the active involvement of our partners and Vinyl 2010. We therefore offer society a sustainable recycling solution in the best possible manner. Recycling and sustainable management are now increasingly in demand by society so that I believe the early years were only the beginning. One does not need to worry about recycling PVC floor covering for generations to come. We have developed an infrastructure throughout the country with our 200 collection sites at which it should be easy for everyone to take part in recycling used PVC floor covering and personally contribute to sustainable development.”
Jakob Fröhlich
Managing Director of Nicocyl GmbH
“We exclusively use purely recycled materials for our industrial flooring. The materials fulfil precisely the demands that we have for our qualitatively high-valued and robust flooring. In the meantime, we have taken a new direction for the marketing and sales of our flooring and have founded a company together with Iboform GmbH which now deals exclusively with this sector. After the difficult times of the global economic crisis, this business sector is now growing so that we urgently need new staff members to work in trade.”
Michel Vetter
Managing Director of VEKA Umwelttechnik GmbH
“For us, recycling is also a success story in an economic sense. Since 1993, we have been able to more than double the tonnage of recycled windows, doors, and roller shades made of PVC. In the meantime, there are more than 100 salaried employees at the Behringen site in Thuringia. In addition, we train two young people each year to become industrial or electrical engineers. We are thinking sustainably in an ecological and economic sense – and that increasingly in a European context: by developing additional recycling societies in France and England, we can now participate in the most important European markets. By 2015, we are planning to expand our capacity so that we will be able to produce granulate directly from used windows in France and England.”
Norbert Bruns
Managing Director of VEKA Umwelttechnik GmbH
“For us, recycling is also a success story in an economic sense. Since 1993, we have been able to more than double the tonnage of recycled windows, doors, and roller shades made of PVC. In the meantime, there are more than 100 salaried employees at the Behringen site in Thuringia. In addition, we train two young people each year to become industrial or electrical engineers. We are thinking sustainably in an ecological and economic sense – and that increasingly in a European context: by developing additional recycling societies in France and England, we can now participate in the most important European markets. By 2015, we are planning to expand our capacity so that we will be able to produce granulate directly from used windows in France and England.”
Dr. Marc Schmidt
Managing Director of Tönsmeier Kunststoffe GmbH & Co. KG
“We are one of the leading plastics recyclers in Europe. In addition to PVC, we accept other materials such as PE, PP ABS, PC and PMMA from more than 5,000 plastics converters throughout Europe for material processing. Through this experience along with the use of the most up-to-date technology and certified quality management in accordance with DIN EN ISO 9001:2008, our specialists deliver persuasive product quality, especially in terms of recycled PVC materials. Whether ground materials, fine regrind or regranulate, the availability of consistent amounts and reproducible quality are a matter of course in each company division. In this way, we can meet the high demands of our customers in PVC processing such as window and pipe manufacturers, as well as any other construction profile manufacturer.”
