Green Manufacturing

The INTECH melters were developed in-house and are much more energy efficient than the gas fired furnaces they replaced. Unlike their predecessors, these melters do not emit carbon dioxide or nitrous oxide. This type of melter is also used at the two glasswool plants operated by Fletcher Building in New Zealand. Other environmental initiatives Fletcher Insulation™ has embraced includes using approximately 80% 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. The Dandenong plant also collects and uses all rainwater that falls on the site.

Fletcher Insulation™ have invested heavily in Green manufacturing processes with the Dandenong plant now utilising a cleaner, greener furnace to produce molten glass for the manufacture of glasswool insulation.