Circular Economy Fund Recipients

AWD specialises in the supply of quality reprocessed plastic feedstocks manufactured from waste collected and recycled from construction, commercial and municipal waste sources.

Having initially established the company to recycle uPVC from the construction sector, AWD has expanded its services to include glass and mixed rigid plastic recycling.  The company now operates the largest rigid plastic recycling facility in the south of the UK.  The facility, based in Port Talbot and known as the Cylch, also recycles mixed rigid plastics for many of Wales’ Local Authorities and is responsible for the delivery of a significant proportion of Wales’ public sector plastic recycling targets.

AWD recycles around 10,000 tonnes per annum of Welsh wastes, including 2,520 tonnes of mixed rigid plastics and 2,900 tonnes of uPVC.

AWD has identified the opportunity to produce high quality granulate and plastic pellet raw materials for supply to Welsh manufacturers. Key to producing these products is a supply of high purity plastic feedstock and the purchase of this equipment that will enable the separation and refining of these materials, and produce a high quality recyclate through the use of flotation and washing technology, and generate high quality pellet/granulate recyclate for use in industry.

Washing and reprocessing equipment for plastic material refinement.

E.L.I.T.E Supported Employment Agency (SEA) is a company established to enable individuals with disabilities or those experiencing disadvantage to access, obtain and maintain paid employment through the provision of tailored one to one training and support.

Elite paper solutions is wholly owned by Elite SEA and was created in 2015 to provide a Welsh solution for the provision of collecting and destructing confidential waste, together with archive storage, and document scanning.

The company has recently started to collect and process cardboard from public sector organisations, and having built a good relationship with some private clients which manufacture equestrian products, intend to launch a new product which will make use of the cardboard collected. Elite will process the cardboard and sell the material as animal bedding, which will eliminate the need to sell the unprocessed cardboard, and generate additional revenue.

ECO Animal bedding is an environmental friendly material, using mixed corrugated cardboard cut finely into small strips, creating a unique design which helps increase absorbency whilst maintaining a warm insulated barrier. The ECO bedding will not just serve equestrian animals, but also suitable for eg pigs, rats, mice, ferrets, guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, chinchilla, degus, gerbils, and African pygmy hedgehogs.

GJD Services specialise in providing an innovative and established approach to aircraft asset management and end of life services.

The organisation is a highly experienced 'part-out' and maintenance company dealing in product life cycle management, and was the first European aircraft maintenance and disposal organisation authorised under both UK CAA and EASA Part-145 and EU/UK Environment Agency. GJD services currently remove all aircraft components from the airframe that are not at 'end of life' and return them to service.  All other airframe materials (98% by weight) are recycled through the normal supply chain. The same process is currently not used for the aircraft engines, so engines with no serviceable life left go to general scrap. However, they contain a number of components that can be life extended and returned to service.

Equipment that comprises of tool items common to Aeronautical engine maintenance so that they can be disassembled and repaired to extract as much 'value' as possible in the re-use of items, and the separation/re-use of rare and precious earth materials.

Radnor Hills is a producer of mineral waters and soft drinks, based in Mid Wales. Established in 1990 and now after over 30 years since the first bottle was poured, it supplies over 250 UK wholesalers and some of the UK’s biggest supermarkets.

With a passion for making the simplest of things taste great, Radnor Hills have created a wide range of products in various packaging formats including plastic, glass, TETRA Pak cartons and cans, all filled with their very own Welsh spring water, fruit juices, flavoured waters, functional waters, infused waters, healthy children’s drinks and premium adult presses.

The project was to part finance a new PET plastic bottle production line that would enable the company to produce bottles manufactured from recycled plastics (rPET) for a new Eco based range.

The company serves a number of market sectors, including housewares and medical devices, and counts several large multi‐national customers among its customer base.
The majority of the company’s products are manufactured from virgin plastics, although in recent years the company has increased its use of recycled content in response to demand from customers.  At present the company uses around 680 tonnes of recycled Polypropylene (PP) per annum.

The grant support will enable the Recipient to purchase capital equipment.

Tilon C G Ltd manufactures high-performance composite panels. The company’s primary products are environmental noise barriers and scaffold boards manufactured from a recycled High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)/Polypropylene (PP) blend and recycled glass fibre. In addition to scaffold boards, the company also supplies the general construction trade with industrial barriers and partitioning, and decking for commercial applications.

The aim of this project is to use additional recycled plastic and additional recycled glass fibre by manufacturing environmental noise barriers and scaffold boards manufactured from recycled High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and recycled glass fibre.

The grant support will enable the Recipient to purchase a second larger capacity manufacturing line, comprising an extruder, die and downstream processing system to operate alongside its existing manufacturing line to manufacture an additional 2,288 tonnes of extruded product.