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Knauf Drywall celebrates with 'Green' month
It’s out with the grey and in with the
green as Knauf Drywall celebrates ongoing success in reducing
its impact on the environment. To mark its achievements to date,
Knauf Drywall is backing its entire output of Wallboard and high
performance plasterboard with a vivid green paper for a month.
Among its latest environmental initiatives, Knauf Drywall
successfully trialled a delivery of plasterboard by barge –
potentially saving thousands of road miles – from its
Sittingbourne factory up the Thames to the River Lea, the future
waterway to the Olympic park at Stratford. And the company has
just announced an industry first with its carbon neutral
plasterboard, Futurepanel. A 10kg/m2 board ideally suited for
Part E applications, Futurepanel can be used anywhere in place
of standard Wallboard.
Commercial Director Ian Stokes says: “We believe that reducing
our impact on the environment is simply the right thing to do.
We are very proud of our progress, and are changing the backing
paper colour for a celebratory ‘green’ month. The colour change
has no effect on the performance of our products.”
Products will continue to be identified by their traditional
face colours.
Ian Stokes says all Knauf Drywall plasterboard is made from the
most environmentally sustainable sources of gypsum currently
available, and 100% recycled paper liners. “We are also
increasingly recycling plasterboard, collected through our
gypsum waste recycling service, to use in our production.
Futurepanel, for example, has at least 10% recycled gypsum in
its core. All the waste from our manufacturing process is
recycled,” he says.
“We have already saved 10% of the energy used at our Immingham
factory with a massive heat exchanger, and have installed new
energy management software to optimise energy usage at Immingham
and Sittingbourne. We are seeking planning permission for a 2MW
wind turbine, to generate up to 40% of our electricity
requirements at Sittingbourne,” he says. “And we are working
with the Carbon Trust to set carbon reduction targets and find
innovative ways to meet them.”
Knauf Drywall’s environmental initiatives are listed in detail
at www.knaufdrywall.co.uk/environment
Knauf Drywall manufactures a full range of plasters,
plasterboards, insulating laminates, drywall accessories, metal
sections and steel building systems, for domestic and commercial
applications, from factories at Sittingbourne in Kent and
Immingham on Humberside.
Email:
david@clockworkmarketing.co.uk