CDE team up with ITN Business programme
New programme highlights how the sector is striving for sustainability and driving the circular economy
CDE, providers of wet processing solutions for the natural and waste recycling sectors, have teamed with ITN Business on their Responsible, Sustainable, Essential Minerals programme which explores the role of the mineral industry in the journey towards net zero.
Launched on Wednesday 4 December 2024, the programme explores how organizations are prioritizing sustainable practices across the industry, with CDE highlighting the importance of their solutions in transforming waste streams into in-spec sand and aggregates.
With sand being the second most consumed material in the world and increasing demand for sand and aggregates in construction projects across the globe, CDE’s solutions are supporting businesses in extracting value from waste streams and diverting more waste from landfill.
Commenting on the importance of highlighting the opportunities when it comes to adding value to waste materials, David Kinloch, director of UK & Ireland, Middle East & Africa and Australasia at CDE, said: ‘It’s been a pleasure to work with ITN Business and the Mineral Products Association (MPA) on this programme, to showcase how our solutions are helping customers become more sustainable.
‘For over 30 years CDE have been offering innovative wet processing solutions to add value to construction waste materials so that they can be repurposed in the market. We’re currently focusing on three main areas to support our customers; tackling difficult waste streams to divert more from landfill, increasing the value of output products, and maximizing yield of outputs from the waste resource.’
Mr Kinloch continued: ‘Each year we continue to contribute to the circular economy by engineering solutions across the world that are diverting over 30 million tonnes of construction, demolition, and excavation waste from landfill, building our best world a tonne at a time.’
Featured in the programme are SRC Group, who have been working with CDE over the past 12 years to deliver 12 projects across the UK.
Oliver Rees, managing director of SRC Group, commented: ‘Sustainability plays a huge role for us at SRC Group, with waste from projects through our construction, demolition, and quarrying businesses being recycled into high-end, valuable products.
‘Thanks to CDE’s state-of-the-art solutions, we’ve been able to grow our business, operate in new locations, expand the lifespan of our quarries, and offer a sustainable option for local construction projects.’
The Malcolm Group, another partner of the Responsible, Sustainable, Essential Minerals programme, are extending the life of hard rock reserves by processing construction, demolition, and excavation waste into sustainable construction grade outputs with a 150 tonnes/h CDE wash plant in Scotland. They highlight how this focus on sustainability is diverting 500,000 tonnes of material from landfill each year.
The ITN Business programme is in association with the MPA, a trade association formed in 2009 for UK mineral products operating companies across its 14 product groups. To watch the programme, click here.
