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National Gypsum to Recycle Waste Wallboard
National Gypsum Company has entered an agreement with Gypsum Recycling International
(GRI) to purchase wallboard waste reclaimed from new construction sites beginning
this fall in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.. National Gypsum will recycle the
reclaimed material into new wallboard at its Portsmouth, N.H. plant.
Gypsum Recycling International, a Danish firm which developed the recycling system,
will collect the waste wallboard and crush it. GRI has had a similar system operating
successfully in conjunction with wallboard manufacturers in Scandinavia for the
past three years.
“By reprocessing the material, National Gypsum will divert waste wallboard, which
would otherwise have been sent to landfills, into a productive and environmentally
friendly use,” said Jerry Carroll, senior vice president, National Gypsum Company.
“The company will divert up to 30,000 tons of waste gypsum to its Portsmouth plant
alone. We will begin the project in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and plan to
expand it throughout the northeast as circumstances allow.”
After the pilot program in the northeast is successfully established, National Gypsum
will work with GRI to evaluate similar opportunities in other areas of the United
States.
“We are looking forward to working with National Gypsum in North American,” said
Henrik Lund-Nielsen, CEO of Gypsum Recycling International. “Our system has been
very successful in Europe and we expect to have similar results in the U.S.”
Headquartered in Charlotte, National Gypsum is a leading supplier of wallboard,
interior finishing products, and cement board to the construction industry. It has
a network of 31 plants in North America, as well as its own paper mills and gypsum
mines and quarries.
Gypsum Recycling International A/S is a Danish, privately owned company and the
world leader in gypsum recycling systems. Gypsum Recycling International A/S is
100% focused on establishing and running plasterboard recycling systems in Europe
and overseas. The company was established in 2001 and has expanded its operations
quickly. It is now operational in the three Scandinavian countries and in Holland,
and is being launched in the UK and Ireland. For more information on Gypsum Recycling
International see its web site: www.gypsumrecycling.biz .
January 17, 2005
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