CNC Recycling

What CNC Recycling does

CNC Recycling is a privately held UK company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Middlesbrough that specialises in recycling end-of-life UPVC windows and doors, offering a landfill diversion alternative for the construction and demolition waste stream. The firm operates with a headcount of 11–50 employees, consistent with a small-scale, single-site industrial processor focused on a narrow material category. Its value proposition centres on providing a sustainable disposal route for obsolete fenestration products, addressing a regulated and increasingly scrutinised waste stream in the UK construction sector.

The company's underlying technology and process specifics — sorting, separation, reprocessing methods, and output form (regrind, pellet, profile) — are not disclosed in the available source material, and the firm's website returned only a verification/loading screen with no operational content. No products, certifications, partnerships, management team details, or customer references are publicly available, which limits assessment of technical depth, capacity, and commercial reach. Public commercial positioning and pricing structure are likewise not documented.

The business model is not explicitly disclosed but is inferred to be B2B, monetising intake of end-of-life UPVC through either gate fees, sale of recycled output to manufacturers, or a combination of both — typical mechanics for a niche waste-recycling operator. No funding rounds, investor base, revenue figures, or contract evidence were disclosed, and the firm shows no publicly recorded expansion, M&A, or strategic partnership activity. As a result, while the company's mission and category positioning are clear, its commercial scale, growth path, and competitive depth cannot be substantiated from the available data.

Name

CNC Recycling

Website

https://upvc-recycling.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

CNC Recycling is a privately held UK firm, founded in 2018 and based in Middlesbrough, that recycles end-of-life UPVC windows and doors, offering a sustainable alternative to landfill disposal for the construction and demolition sector.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Construction Waste Recycling

NAICS

Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Materials Recovery Facilities (56292)

akta.pro primary industry

Deconstruction & Salvage (Building Material Reuse) (EUAIAHAJ)

Keywords

• UPVC window recycling
• UPVC door recycling
• Window frame reclamation
• Construction waste recycling
• UPVC material recovery

Headquarters

HQ city

Middlesbrough

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

CNC Recycling collects and recycles end-of-life UPVC windows and doors, diverting them from landfill. The company processes old UPVC frames into reclaimed material that can be reintroduced into manufacturing supply chains, providing a circular-economy alternative for the UK window and door industry.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• UPVC Window and Door Recycling

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Broad incumbents

• Veolia UK: Global environmental services group with substantial UK recycling and resource-recovery operations. Comparable as a diversified incumbent in the same regulatory and customer environment, even though uPVC window recycling is not its core focus.
• EMR (European Metal Recycling): Major UK and global materials recycler that processes construction and demolition materials, including metals and related building-component streams. Comparable as a wide-scale materials recovery operator, even though CNC Recycling is far more narrowly specialised in uPVC.
• Biffa: One of the UK's largest waste management groups, operating extensive recycling and recovery infrastructure that overlaps with CNC Recycling's end-of-life materials processing focus, but at significantly greater scale and breadth across multiple waste streams.
• Suez Recycling and Recovery UK: International recycling and waste-management operator with UK operations covering construction and demolition material recovery, sharing the same sustainability-driven procurement environment as CNC Recycling.

Regional players

• WasteCare: UK-focused waste and recycling services provider serving construction, demolition and commercial customers with collection and processing of segregated materials, making it a comparable regional operator in similar end-markets.

Others

• Rehau: Global polymer products manufacturer with significant uPVC window-profile systems for the UK and European markets. Relevant as a major generator of end-of-life uPVC frames and as an adjacent industry participant in the same fenestration material chain.
• Eurocell: UK PVC window, door and roofline product manufacturer operating across the same fenestration value chain. Relevant as the upstream/downstream counterpart in the uPVC window market rather than as a recycling competitor, but indicative of the customer base and feedstock generators CNC Recycling ultimately depends on.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Cncrecyclingltd
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cnc-recycling-ltd

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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