A new reprocessing plant that boasts pioneering technology to treat glass removed from TVs & computer monitors has opened for business in Irvine, Scotland. The facility, operated by Restructa, produces glass fit for reuse in the manufacture of similar products. Formed in 2005, Restructa collects unwanted TV sets & monitors from council civic amenity sites across Scotland & other parts of the UK from compliance schemes & businesses. The sets are dismantled at the company's North Newmoor site to recover circuit boards, metals & plastics. The glass tubes are split using a thermal shock process before being sent to the new facility for hazardous material recovery & cleaning. "We use a process developed in Germany by WKR to separate the glass fractions of the cathode ray tube," explains Bill Paterson, Restructa's commercial director.
