Ventilation industry leader Vent-Axia celebrated Global Recycling Day, which took place on 18 March 2023, by showing its commitment to expanding its range of recycled plastic ventilation products and meeting its environmental targets.
Vent-Axia is leading the way in the ventilation sector with a market transformation to manufacturing from recycled material to improve indoor air sustainably. This includes its award-winning Lo-Carbon Multivent MEV range which literally broke the mould as the first MEV to be made from recycled plastic. This has now expanded to a wide range of products including its Positive Input Ventilation (PIV) units and Mixed Flow In-Line fans, helping customers in a wider range of sectors make more sustainable choices.
The company is committed to reducing its environmental impact by setting and meeting key targets: by the end of FY2025, over 70% of its products will be from one of its LoCarbon ranges and 90% of the products that it manufactures will be made from a recycled source. By manufacturing ventilation units from recycled plastic through open loop recycling, Vent-Axia is using a sustainable source of raw material; there is a reduction in the embodied carbon; it reduces plastic going to landfill; avoids the consumption of oil stocks; consumes less energy than producing new virgin polymers; and follows sustainable values reducing human environmental impact.
The mission of Global Recycling Day is to tell world leaders that recycling is simply too important not to be a global issue, and that a common, joined up approach to recycling is urgently needed; and to ask people across the planet to think resourcefully and not be wasteful when it comes to the goods around us.
“Sustainability has always been core to our product innovation. We are committed to offering more sustainable choices for our customers through continuously improving our products’ energy performance, reducing waste throughout our products’ lifecycle and significantly increasing the use of recycled plastic from the circular economy in the manufacture of our products,” said Lena Hebestreit, marketing manager at Vent-Axia.
Transformative change
Using recycled plastic is a true innovation. VentAxia has previously reduced its single-use plastic waste and produced ducting from recycled plastic. But this innovation now moves to VentAxia’s core ventilation products, learning to work with recycled material, developing and manufacturing a robust product that performs to the same high standards as those made from virgin material whilst meeting all safety standards. The transformation from virgin to recycled plastic followed significant R&D, including extensive material and product testing, CFD analysis, FEA analysis, and FMEA analysis as well as investment in specialist manufacturing equipment.
Vent-Axia’s market-leading Multivent MEV range is now manufactured from a reliable, regularly available, recycled source of ABS plastic. This marks an industry step-change in ventilation manufacture, allowing Vent-Axia to produce the range in recycled plastic without affecting the unit’s function or award-winning performance. Designed to provide a simple and effective solution to help housebuilders meet the Future Homes Standard, the Multivent MEV range provides the ideal solution for new build residential projects, helping housebuilders meet DER requirements through market-leading energy efficiency and improving indoor air quality (IAQ) for homeowners. On top of this, the move to recycled plastic further improves the environmental credentials of the product for housebuilders and homeowners.
At current sales volumes, 34,440kg of recycled plastic is being used in place of virgin plastic per year for the MEV range, and with MEV volume growth at 17% over the last three years, these figures are set to grow.
Vent-Axia is further showing its commitment to meeting its targets as it rolls out more products made from recycled plastic, including its Lo-Carbon PoziDry Pro Loft Positive Input Ventilation (PIV) – key to helping social housing providers meet their environmental targets – and the ACM100 energy efficient Mixed Flow In-Line fans, helping commercial and industrial premises become more sustainable too.
www.globalrecyclingday.com
0844 856 0590
www.vent-axia.com
