Colmax Glass is a key player in the glass recycling industry. The company transforms glass received from recycling facilities into high-value Colmax TecSand™ — the raw material used in a variety of applications such as fibreglass insulation batts, road surface lane markings, water filtration, glass bottles and many more.

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Modern recycling facilities recover about 70% of the material they receive; the remaining mixture of glass fragments, bottle tops, bits of plastic, pebbles, etc ("glass fines") are unusable as it is uneconomic to extract the glass from the rest of the material. While glass fines are occasionally stockpiled awaiting some future solution, the material is far more typically sent to landfill.

However, Colmax has developed state-of-the-art facilities and proprietary processes that economically transform both cullet and fines into cleaned, graded Colmax TecSand™. And Colmax does this cleanly and efficiently, with only 2% of the material it receives currently going to landfill.

Recycling facilities that send their waste fines to Colmax rather than landfill therefore increase their recovery rates from 70% to 99.4%.

This has earned Colmax numerous grants and awards:

• Most Outstanding Demonstration of Packaging Waste Management in Australia (winner 2009)
• Grants from the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change
• Grants from both the VIC and QLD Environmental Protection Authorities
• Grants from the WA Waste Authority
• Grants from the National Packaging Covenant

• Outstanding product quality
• Rapid response
• Reliability
• Customised solutions
• Personalised service
• Inventive approach