Circular.
At the REHAU Group, we are aware that raw materials belong to the planet, not to their current owner.
The REHAU Group.
Sustainable products.
REHAU has invested more than 65 million euros in state-of-the-art recycling facilities. For example. the company routinely uses recyclates in the inner core of window profiles, delivering CO2 savings of almost 100,000 tons each year.
In support of our Circular Economy ambition, old window profile sections can be transformed into new, highly efficient window systems. Used raw materials are collected, cleaned, shredded, sorted, and partially refined before being returned to the production process to create perfect new window profiles. Thanks to process improvements, raw materials in REHAU windows can safely go through reprocessing up to seven times, giving them a useful lifespan of hundreds of years.
Sustainable design.
The next time you casually recycle a plastic bottle cap, there’s a chance its reincarnation could be as a clever underground box designed to percolate, retain, and store rainwater. The RAUSIKKO BOX is an innovative modular system that architects and town planners can specify to safely handle and filter storm water. Once captured underground, storm water can be either returned to water treatment sites or allowed to drain safely into the ground water with no risk of damage to nearby buildings and roads.
And, best of all, the RAUSIKKO BOX is 100% fully recyclable.
Sustainable manufacturing.
In 2019, REHAU has consumed more than 63,000 tons of recyclate, nearly twice as much as in 2012. By the end of 2025, we aim to reach a recycling rate of > 15% across all worldwide REHAU manufacturing operations amounting to a use of more than 75,000 tons of second life material. Most recycled and recovered material is used to create durable products with lifetimes measured in decades, or even centuries. But even these long-life products will one day reach end-of-life, when the raw materials will be carefully recycled for their next owner. The actions REHAU takes today will have a positive effect on our planet for many generations to come.