## The **Cullet Production Facility** in St Helens processes high quality **recycled glass** from packaging. 

**The facility gives yearly a new lease of life to over 60,000 tonnes of used glass bottles and jars collected from households, as it cleans, separates and refines them into high purity raw materials.**

**This provides Knauf Insulation with a stable supply of high quality recycled glass from packaging, which is a key raw material used to manufacture energy saving insulation products. This end-to-end process supports the strategies of both companies in regards to sustainability, recycling and preserving scarce raw materials.**

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### **Process Overview**

**Latest technology to sort and separate glass at a micro-level with exceptional accuracy, delivering an ultra-pure glass cullet to ensure the highest possible quality of insulation. The machinery includes vibrating screens for size sorting, magnets to extract ferrous materials and eddy current separators for non-ferrous materials.**

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