Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Egger and Hill’s Panel Products (HPP) partners on sustainability initiative specifically over the production of board, doors and furniture fittings manufacturer and supplier, Hill’s Panel Products (HPP), and chipboard maker, Egger.
Oldham-based HPP makes and supplies an expansive range of full and processed sheet material, vinyl wrapped furniture doors and fittings, while Egger is one of its major suppliers of melamine faced chipboard products – all made from wood from PEFC and FSC accredited forests.
“Chipboard from Egger is a carbon positive material, it stores more carbon than it releases,” says HPP’s business development and marketing director, Dan Mounsey.
Egger, which has been supplying HPP throughout the majority of its 30-year history, has created a dedicated area on its website showing how its teams sustainably source the materials used to make its wood-based products.
Its founder, Fritz Egger Senior, is famous in the timber-based product industry for his comment: “Wood is far too valuable to just throw away”.
Dan Mounsey adds: “We are taking account of sustainability with everything we do; from our vehicles, to our processes and packaging, to day-to-day operations.
“Our operations are certified as zero landfill which means that less than 1% of waste from our plant went into landfill last year. We recycle as much as we can; we burn our offcuts; we have our own boilers that heat various buildings, and we have multiple solar panel installations.
“We have moved from polystyrene corner protectors on our doors and worktops to pulp-based protectors and all of our deliveries are now paperless. We are already doing a lot, but are also conscious that moving forward we can and need to do more.”
Egger UK, meanwhile, is amongst the largest users of recycled wood in the industry, with 40 per cent of one of its chipboard panels being made using recycled wood.
Tags: doors and furniture fittings, egger, HPP, Italy, sustainability, wood and panel, Wood UK, woodworking and manufacturing
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