Cut-to-size work generates offcuts. On a nest with a difficult geometry, that can be a fifth of the sheet. Historically those pieces went to waste; since the start of this year they have been collected, sorted by polymer family and colour, and sent for regranulation.
In the first twelve months the programme diverted roughly 40 tonnes of material from landfill. The regranulate goes back into non-critical applications — jigs, spacers, packing dunnage — rather than into stock shapes, because recycled content changes both colour and mechanical performance and we are not willing to sell that ambiguity to a customer who specified virgin material.
What we will not recycle back into your order is unmarked or mixed material. A bin of assorted offcuts is worthless; a bin of natural POM is a usable raw material. If you receive cut parts and want the offcuts back for your own use, ask — we are happy to return them rather than process them.
Need a material recommendation?
Send us the application and we will reply with two or three candidate grades and a price.
