can waste gypsum really be recycled?
In the world’s competitive gypsum wallboard market, where pricing power is almost non-existent, profits are under intense pressure and competing wall systems threaten to take away marketshare recycling waste gypsum wallboard can cut manufacturing input costs by reducing the need for more expensive virgin gypsum in new wallboard. New West Gypsum Recycling Inc., of Vancouver, Canada, has built a thriving business recycling gypsum wallboard waste and providing this to manufacturers to be combined with virgin gypsum to make new wallboard containing up to 25 percent recycled content–with no loss in quality. The company’s process and technology is proprietary, and they claim they are an economic and value-added component of the gypsum wallboard industry. …
