Profile 22, has been short listed in the Waste Initiative category of the Sustainable Housing Awards 2009, after becoming the first ever manufacturer to supply 100 per cent recycled PVC-U window Profile to the social housing sector.

The awards to be held at the Hilton Hotel in London’s Park Lane on October 23 are held to recognise the best green social housing projects in the UK.

The second year in succession that Profile 22 has been short listed as a finalist, the company was nominated after becoming the first PVC-U window systems company to extrude profile manufactured from 100 per cent recycled content for use in a commercial installation earlier this year.

Foiled with a thin virgin skin (two per cent), the product was installed on behalf of pioneering Manchester ALMO Northwards Housing and achieves a total recycled content of 98 per cent – a first for the window industry and the social housing sector.

Ted Stevens, Inside Housing’s events director and the organiser of the awards said: “We’ve had a terrific response, with hundreds of entries and Profile 22 has done brilliantly to get short listed from such a huge field.

“Britain is leading the way on sustainable housing and innovative building techniques so we’re delighted we’re able to organise a ceremony to reward that organisations that are delivering best practice”.

Profile 22 offers an extensive range of future generation fully recyclable and energy efficient products.

This includes a unique green new build window system which features a cavity closer manufactured from 98 per cent recycled ‘waste’ PVC-U and a sill system with 92 per cent recycled content, co-extruded with a virgin skin to deliver superb weather performance.

Andrew Reid, commercial director, Profile 22, said: “For the moment, while it remains a pilot project, what has been achieved at Northwards is representative of a new offer to the social housing sector and leading innovation in PVC-U technology.

“As an industry we are bringing thousands of tonnes of old PVC-U back into use -  material that might otherwise have gone to landfill – in a new generation  of not only sustainable but also advanced, secure and energy efficient windows and doors.”

Last year nearly 500 people attended the Sustainable Housing Awards, which was hosted by green campaigner, comedian and impersonator Alistair McGowan. Sponsors of the awards this year include eps, United House, Axis, Sitex Orbis, Tarmacand NHBC.