About saveBOARD
saveBOARD is focused on building a circular economy by turning composite packaging back into products that re-enter the local supply chain, engineered to be carbon negative.
We have two plants: one in Hamilton, New Zealand, and one in Warragamba, New South Wales, Australia. We manufacture healthy, affordable, high-performance building materials from our Hamilton and Warragamba factories that make a circular economy an everyday reality.
We upcycle packaging in Australasia through proven, scalable technologies that turn locally collected waste into locally distributed, recyclable building products.
Why saveBOARD
CIRCULAR SOLUTIONS
PERFORMANCE FIRST
PRICE & COST SAVINGS
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Save the environment by upcycling milk & juice beverage cartons into boards.
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Turn 4,000,000kg of soft plastics and fibre into boards every year, for every line commissioned.
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Every board is made from more than 500 used beverage cartons.
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Turn high-value product packaging into boards.
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Use only what you need: cut-to-length ordering keeps offcuts to a minimum.
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Return construction offcuts to our manufacturing plant to be remanufactured into new boards
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ZERO Water
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ZERO Glues
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ZERO Chemicals
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ZERO VOC Emissions
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ZERO Formaldehydes
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ZERO Manufacturing loss: all offcuts or reject boards are shredded back to raw materials for reprocessing
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LOWEST Carbon Footprint wall & ceiling board on the market.
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IMPACT resistant board product with a similar performance to plywood, OSB and particle board.
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Similar pricing to comparable product segments ie. Bracing plasterboard, high grade plywood etc.
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Save plastering and painting by using our pre-finished Exposed internal lining.
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Bulk orders cut to length, minimising offcuts
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Imagine schools built from their kids’ milk cartons or product packaging
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Communities built from valuable materials recovered from everyday packaging
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End of Life recovery of used boards for reprocessing and recycling into future Save Board products.
Our History
2017 - 2020
The beginning
Paul Charteris started investigating upcycling Technolgies around the world. Through his work he visited the ReWall plant in Iowa October 2018. This was a key moment when he decided he had to do something similar in Australasia.
2020
October 2020
December 2020
Foundation shareholders secured and capital raised and new company called Upcycled Building Materials Ltd is formed.
December 20' the order was placed for the Press Line.
2021
December 2021
October 21' the equipment arrived in the middle of the COVID pandemic, made it a challenging installation process.
December 21' First production from our Te Rapa, Hamilton, New Zealand plant.
2023
February 2023
First production from our Warragamba, NSW, Australia plant.
2024
August 24' CodeMark Certification completed on our Exposed & Internal Linings
Novemenber 24' CodeMark Certification completed on our betterBRACE rigid air barrier
2025
January 25' Publishing of 5x Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) covering 6x products.
