saveBOARD plant opens in Hamilton

saveBOARD is a sustainable development board, made out of packaging waste comparable to used beverage cartons, mushy plastics and low cups. The product’s inexperienced credentials meet all obligations beneath 14G of the Constructing Act, lowering waste from the setting and as much as 90 per cent discount in carbon. Offcuts and end-of-life boards might be remanufactured into new board merchandise, offering a zero waste to landfill resolution.

saveBOARD Co-Founder and Chief Govt Officer Paul Charteris stated the manufacturing facility began producing on 21 November 2021 and since 10 January it has been working 24 hours a day, three days per week producing 400 boards a day and diverting as much as 4,000 tonnes of waste from landfill yearly. The corporate plans to ramp the manufacturing facility as much as six days per week as demand will increase. The manufacturing facility has created new jobs with extra anticipated because the undertaking grows.

Mr Charteris stated New Zealand builders can now exchange plywood, particle board and plasterboard, with saveBOARD’s low carbon, environmentally sustainable development boards.

saveBOARD has funding and assist from business leaders Freightways, Tetra Pak and Closed Loop Options which can present recycled materials in addition to transport and logistics options.

Andrew Pooch, Managing Director of Tetra Pak Oceania stated, “This native recycling resolution is extra than simply an funding to us. It’s the proper factor to do.

“The saveBOARD facility delivers on the New Zealand Authorities’s goal to remodel recycling by delivering a neighborhood round economic system resolution. The power has the capability to course of all of the beverage cartons in New Zealand and enhance if demand grows. It is going to require a gradual provide of used beverage cartons by means of kerbside recycling to ship a much-needed provide of sustainable constructing supplies within the market.”

Freightways Chief Govt Officer, Mark Troughear, is thrilled to see the plant up and operating and says its funding in SaveBOARD was an necessary step within the NZX listed firm’s persevering with mission to seek out round waste options.

“One in every of Freightways’ core rules is to take possession and clear up issues by means of motion, investing in SaveBOARD was a possibility to do exactly that by supporting a wise and market-ready thought.

Mr Charteris stated there’s a rising demand for the product due to the constructing supplies scarcity. “For instance, we’ve taken used Tetra Pak packaging from Fonterra and recycled Suntory espresso cups together with Contact Power’s redundant advertising and marketing materials to provide a saveBOARD uncovered inside lining on a characteristic wall at Contact’s Auckland places of work.

“If individuals purchase and use our merchandise, we are able to scale up and have a much bigger affect. The extra individuals purchase our product, the extra we are able to produce. Each board offered means 10kg much less of carbon emissions, and fewer packaging that results in landfill.”

The saveBOARD manufacturing course of makes use of warmth and compression to bond supplies, eliminating the necessity for glues or different chemical components. saveBOARD is made with zero water, zero glues, zero chemical compounds and has zero VOC emissions or formaldehydes. The product offers as much as a 90% discount in carbon emissions in contrast with different development boards.

The expertise to show waste into excessive efficiency constructing materials was developed in the US the place it has been broadly used for greater than a decade. The product was chosen by Tesla because the membrane roof substrate for its 200,000m2 gigafactory in Nevada. The Tesla roof equates to upcycling 2,000 tonnes of composite plastics and saves 336,000 kgs of embodied CO2 in comparison with utilizing plywood.

Mr Charteris stated saveBOARD had acquired a A$1.74 million grant from the Australian and New South Wales Governments in direction of establishing a A$5 million facility in New South Wales that’s scheduled to be in manufacturing this 12 months.

Extra details about saveBOARD is offered at www.saveboard.nz