Sustainability with purpose: Our sustainability partnerships, driving the real change!

At Powdertech, we take accountability for efficient waste recycling, energy conservation and are committed to making our entire operation more sustainable. In addition to the normal streams, we have partnered with specialised organisations to handle metal, wood, and even waste powder materials, traditionally seen as difficult or hazardous to recycle.

The partnership is more than a sustainability-driven decision taken to recycle the materials, but also an ethical one to help support local businesses and charities. And with the support of our sustainability partners, L.C. Hughes Partnership, Oxford Wood Recycling, Lovibond Water Testing UK, Bucks Recycling, SERFILCO, Plastratum Limited, and Sirfilco International, we are consistently motivated to do better and go further.

Our sustainability partners.

Powder waste, a traditionally hazardous waste stream, is generally disposed of via specialist contractors and processed at a landfill. For this, we have been able to partner with Bucks Recycling, who assists us in finding ways of processing non-hazardous waste, and organise a disposal route into the energy reclamation sector, and no previous supplier has been able to help with this!

For metal recycling, we are in partnership with a local family-owned firm in Bicester, LC Hughes Partnership, specialising in metal reclamation and recycling. Helping to support local employment and minimising the transport mileage.

Oxford Wood Recycling, a registered charity based in Oxford for wood recycling. They offer a service of collection, sortation, and repurposing via their online store, or processing into the agricultural or energy reclamation sectors, and can process almost any form of wood on-site with minimal impact to a business operation.

We have partnered with Sirfilco International, Plastratum, and Lovibond to create a system to fully manage and treat our wastewater stream. They provide a high-spec system that caters to everything from tank-by-tank testing, continual flow or batch filtration of process water, and capture of contaminants in solid form for disposal, to final processing of end-of-life chemicals.

The ‘Great 100’ Made in Midlands awards

At Powdertech, we are thrilled to participate in ‘The Great 100’ awards by Made in Midlands for the ‘Sustainability Champions’ category. Show support by filling out the nominations form and nominate Phil Tyler, our Operations Director, Ian Manning, our Engineering Manager, and Richard Knight, our Manufacturing Engineer, the leaders behind our successful sustainability projects. And stay tuned to know more about sustainability projects at Powdertech through our ‘Sustainability Spotlight’ series.