Sustainability

Glass Reinforced Polymer (GRP)

Dura Composites’ Glass Reinforced Polymer (GRP) products are recognised for their superiority over conventional materials like wood, steel, and concrete. With lower energy requirements during development, an impressive strength-to-weight ratio, and an extended lifecycle, GRP presents a compelling option.

When choosing a material for your project, it’s crucial to consider the entire lifecycle, including installation, longevity, and maintenance. Dura Composites’ GRP products stand out with significantly low life cycle costs due to their maintenance-free, corrosion-resistant, and impact-resistant qualities. Leading products like d² Dura Grating come with a reassuring 25-year warranty and a design life of up to 60 years.

Embracing a circular economy, Dura Composites designs products for durability, easy repair, and recyclability. Our d² Dura Grating panels, even after their intended use, can be upcycled or repurposed. Through Dura Upcycling Ltd, we promote the reuse and repurposing of materials, offering goods for non-standard applications such as 4×4 sand ladders, caravan jack pads, stair treads, building site flooring, seedling plant separators, lorry jacks, drain covers, shelving and racking, car parking matting, and farm land access grids. We are committed to advising customers on specific scenarios for optimal use.

d² GRP Grating

Porcelain

The choice of hardscaping materials and the way they are installed have a huge influence on the usability and the longevity of your outdoor flooring project. Porcelain is exceptionally strong as a material, and therefore has an extremely long lifecycle when compared to other decking solutions such as softwood.

Our Dura Deck® Inspire planks are produced in Europe with 61% of pre-consumer recycled materials. All the raw materials used in the production come from a radius of 500 miles of the manufacturing plant and the products’ cardboard packaging materials are both made from recycled paper and are further recyclable themselves.

Porcelain Decking

Composite Timber (WPC)

FSC® Chain of Custody certification is awarded to companies that can track and document FSC® certified materials through the production process – from the forest to the consumer. This includes all successive stages of procurement, processing, manufacturing, distribution and sale of certified goods. Dura Composites has the ability to offer all of its Composite Decking, Composite Cladding and Composite Deck Tile products as FSC® (C108450) certified. Look for the products on our website that are accompanied with the FSC® logo or the words ‘FSC® certified’ and you can be confident you are not damaging the world’s forests, and that the product has been manufactured with timber from responsibly managed forests, which meet the highest environmental and social standards.

In today’s marketplace, consumers increasingly have the option to buy products that offer a sustainable solution. Ethically harvested wood products are a great example of a high-quality product with a lessened environmental impact. Asking for, and buying, wood and paper products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) — is something we can all do that is good for people, good for forests and good for the planet. Dura Composites takes pride in the fact that we are able to offer sustainable composite timber options to our customers.

Composite Decking    Composite Cladding