Passion for
recycling
Our company
De Vries Recycling has over 25 years of experience in the recycling sector. The roots of our company lie in the efficient re-use of raw materials – recycling is in our DNA! De Vries Recycling is a pioneer in the recycling sector and invests continuously in new technologies with innovative developments.
We stand for a ‘closed-loop upcycling process’: a process that by definition is based on upcycling. EPS waste is upcycled into XPS insulation. This results in a product with a higher value and improved properties. XPS insulation can be returned to De Vries at the end of its useful life for closed loop recycling. We’d be delighted if you too would become part of our circular revolution!
Four generations with a passion for recycling
January 2021 saw the first pile driven in a major expansion for De Vries Recycling. This photo shows four generations with a passion for recycling: Jan Riekelt van Veen, Gerrit van Veen with his son Jan Rick, and grandpa Gerrit de Vries.
How it all started…
Gerrit van Veen runs the recycling enterprise together with his father Riekelt van Veen. It was grandpa Gerrit de Vries who first started operating in the recycling market in 1996. “The phenomenon was just beginning to trend and my grandpa saw an opportunity. So as a young boy, I was in the thick of it right from the start: I thought it was fantastic,” explains Gerrit. At the time, De Vries started with a polystyrene press, and it didn’t take long for many fish-processing companies to find him for processing polystyrene fish boxes.
In 2014, De Vries took the next step and started extruding EPS. From that point onwards, polystyrene waste has been processed into polystyrene re-granulate (General Purpose Poly Styrene). This raw material is sold on to the XPS insulation industry.
“De Vries Recycling focuses on quality, reliability and partnership over the longer term.”
Gerrit van Veen (CEO)
Our supply of raw materials no longer originates only from the Urk fishing industry. De Vries Recycling is a pioneer in the recycling sector and invests continuously in new technologies with innovative developments. This vision has turned De Vries Recycling into a worldwide player on the EPS market.
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