Manufacturing
Fletcher Insulation™ have invested heavily in Green manufacturing processes with Dandenong plant now utilising a cleaner, greener furnace to produce molten glass for the manufacture of glasswool insulation.
The INTECH melters were developed in house and are much more energy efficient than the gas fired furnace they replaced. Unlike their predecessors, these melters do not emit any carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide and the bulk of the emissions from the stack is steam.
This type of melter is also used at our Rooty Hill plant, and the two glasswool plants operated by Fletcher Building in New Zealand. Other environmental initiatives Fletcher Insulation has embraced include using approximately 70% recycled glass in its process. This is glass that would have otherwise gone to landfill.
Special filters on the furnace stack reduce airborne particles by 98% and these collected particles are then reused in the furnace feed. This further reduced the pollution in the environment.