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Sustainability

Thormac journey to sustainability has involved adopting practices that minimize negative environmental and social impacts while maximizing economic benefits. 
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Our milestones on our journey
  • Collaborating with customers to reduce waste in the production of plastic components.
  • Movement from hydraulic injection moulding machines towards Electric injection moulding machines, which have much greater efficiency.
  • Adopting more environmentally friendly materials like Bioplastic compounds and, in some cases, recycled polymer materials.
  • Developing product using 80% single-sourced recycled plastic.
  • 40% reduction in electricity usage using Smart power machines.
  • 10% reduction in water usage using closed loop chilling systems.
  • Reducing process waste by 20%
  • Replacing light fittings with more sustainable LED lights in 2019.
Comparing the plastic injection moulding process
Plastic Processing Specific Energy Usage
Type kWh/kg
Injection Moulding 3.118
Pipe and Profile Extrusion 1.506
Film Extrusion 1.346
Thermoforming 6.179
Rototional Moulding 5.828
Compression Moulding 3.168
Film Extrusion 1.346
Fibre Extrusion 0.850
Compounding 0.631
Overall Average 2.811
Working In partnership with our customers
  • Alu metal box converted. to PP GF40%.
    • Part weighs 33% less.
    • Reduced Noise Pollution.
    • Easier to recycle.
  • Formerly metal tripod covert to PA6 GF20% FR.
    • Part weights 23grms.
    • 27 sec cycle-time.
    • Easier to recycle
Thormac Products
While turnover goes up our electricity use comes down
Year Total Units kWh Reduction Kwh Total kg CO2 Total CO2 Tonne Reduction CO2 Total kg Carbon Total Carbon Tonne Reduction Carbon
15 1,143,791 0% 544,444 544 0% 148,485 148 0%
16 1,234,178 -8% 502,311 502 8% 136,994 137 7%
17 1,211,683 -6% 437,417 437 20% 119,296 119 20%
18 1,382,810 -21% 470,156 470 14% 128,224 128 14%
19 1,024,390 10% 348,293 348 36% 94,989 95 36%
20 903,356 21% 307,141 307 44% 83,766 84 43%
21 993,622 -10% 298,087 298 45% 81,297 81 45%
22 930,478 6% 317,052 317 42% 86,469 86 42%
23 993623 -7% 298,087 298 45% 81288 81 45%
Working in partnership with Clean Ireland

None of our waste goes to landfill, it is either recovered or recycled.

Waste Stream 2023 Jan-23 Feb-23 Mar-23 Apr-23 May-23 Jun-23 Jul-23 Aug-23 Sep-23 Oct-23 Nov-23 Dec-23
Recycling 16.97% 18.86% 9.63% 14.33% 10.31% 0.00% 0.44% 2.06% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 8.67%
Recovery 83.03% 81.14% 90.37% 85.67% 89.69% 100.00% 99.56% 97.94% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 91.33%
Landfill 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00%
100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
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