Recycling and Manufacture

Using Recycled Plastics in High-End Manufacturing
At the forefront of sustainable innovation, we integrate recycled plastics into the manufacture of high-end products across a range of industries. This not only helps companies to manufacture their products whilst being conscious of their environmental responsibility, but also demonstrates that recycled materials can meet the performance of virgin plastics. This allows for high-end products with complex functionality requirements to be moulded using recycled plastics, without compromising on their appearance, use, strength, and durability.

Tailored Material Blends for Performance and Sustainability
With the convenience of running our own in-house recycling centre, RGE use the material produced to create our own blend of recycled plastic. Our process involves carefully engineering blends of recycled materials to achieve specific performance characteristics. By combining different grades and types of recycled plastics, we can create materials tailored for strength, flexibility, heat resistance, or other critical properties, depending on the product’s end use.

Modern recycled plastics often rival virgin materials in terms of strength, durability, and reliability. Our testing and validation processes ensure that every recycled blend meets the required quality standards, making them suitable even for a wide variety of high-performance applications.
Working with recycled materials requires a design approach that considers variability, performance, and processing needs. RGE offer specialised design and engineering services to adapt product development to be suitable for manufacture with Recycled materials. This ensures that each product performs flawlessly, while benefiting from sustainable material choices.


Supporting Your Environmental Goals
By incorporating recycled plastics into our products, we help our customers meet ambitious environmental targets. This includes reducing carbon footprint, diverting plastic waste from landfills, and minimising the use of fossil-fuel-based virgin plastics. Our approach supports circular economy principles and reduces the overall environmental impact of production.


Repurposing Plastics from Unlikely Sources
We go beyond the obvious by sourcing recycled plastics from industries that traditionally generate large volumes of waste. From old, worn, and damaged packaging, to waste from the food production industry and automotive parts, we are able to repurpose plastics from unexpected sectors, giving them new life in innovative products.
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Quality Control

Whether it be the parts we produce or the service we provide – quality matters. Our team will work with you to understand the quality requirements of your mould tool and end product.

RGE pioneered use of the award-winning ThingTrax machine monitoring system - used to monitor the efficiency of our factories. Our QC team carry out pre-production tests on the raw material using Melt Flow Index (MFI) equipment to ensure it meets the requirements for the job. Tests carried out on mouldings throughout the production run include checks on the colour using a Spectrophotometer or Lightbox, as well as ensuring the parts measure within the agreed tolerances using a Co-Ordinate Measuring Machine (CMM). Learn more here

RGE is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 across our UK and Europe sites.

Whether it be the parts we produce or the service we provide – quality matters. Our team will work with you to understand the quality requirements of your mould tool and end product. Here at RGE, this is achieved using a combination of systems and processes. Alongside use of a leading ERP system, our QC team carry out both pre-production tests on the raw material, and throughout the production run on the mouldings. Learn more here.

RGE is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 across our UK and Europe sites.

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