Leading the Way in Sustainable Cabinet Support Systems

Strategic Sustainability Partnership

Since 2019, Insignia Manufacturing has partnered with Enva to integrate recycled polymers into its cabinet support systems. This collaboration is central to both companies’ commitment to advancing the circular economy and delivering commercial and environmental benefits. By using recycled materials, Insignia reduces its carbon footprint while maintaining the high product quality its customers expect.

Manufacturing Excellence and Innovation

Insignia is the UK’s leading manufacturer of cabinet support systems, offering a comprehensive and continually developing range of products for the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and office sectors. This family-run business, based in Northamptonshire, operates 18 injection moulding machines to manufacture over 10 million plastic components each month. These components are assembled, packed, and distributed to customers around the world.

The company’s in-house design, production, and tooling capabilities enable it to increase capacity on existing products and collaborate with customers to design, tool, and manufacture new plastic injection-moulded components from concept to viable commercial product.

Insignia’s production facility is certified to high levels of industry leading standards, including the ISO 9001:2015 quality standard. Their products are further tested to industry-leading standards by FIRA (The Furniture Research Association), the independent testing organisation SATRA in the UK, and LGA in Germany.

Realising the Benefits of Recycled Materials

Enva’s recycled polymer facility in Bourne, Lincolnshire, supplies Insignia with high-quality compounds, including ABS and PP, used in a wide range of products.

• ABSRP001 - Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS): A highly sought-after polymer for its durability, chemical resistance, low melting point, and overall strength. Its lightweight nature and ability to be injection moulded make it suitable for a wide range of products, from furniture supports to automotive components and toys.
• PPRP004 - Recycled Polypropylene (PP): A flexible, cost effective general-purpose plastic compound with a wide range of applications. It has excellent physical properties, including flexibility and a softer finish, retaining shape and structure while providing good insulation. It is especially useful in manufacturing products such as storage containers and car parts.

Enva’s materials meet strict safety and compliance standards, reinforcing both companies’ leadership in sustainable manufacturing and their shared commitment to responsible resource use.

Through this partnership, Insignia can offer products that help customers lower their environmental impact without compromising on quality or cost.

Nick Kingdom, Insignia said: “Working with Enva enables us to manufacture products that are comprised of 99.9% recycled material, sourced entirely from within the UK. The consistent supply of high-quality polymers and compounds ensures we can meet demand at all times while conforming to all relevant industry testing standards. This, combined with the fact that these products actively help our customers reduce their carbon footprint, gives us a competitive advantage and helps us maintain our market leading position.” 

Sustainable Development Goals Spotlight

Using Enva’s plastics derived from recycled material avoids the use of virgin equivalent. This aligns with Enva’s core approach to help protect and recover the worlds finite resources, and support SDG 12, Responsible Consumption and Production.

In partnership with Insignia, we are growing the circular economy, embedding recycled plastic into innovative products, showing our support for both SDG 9 & 17. The outcome of using recycled plastic delivers numerous social and environmental benefits.

They help reduce localised pollution, improving the health, wellbeing and sustainability of our communities (SDG 3 & 11), they help protect nature on land and at sea through pollution reduction (SDG 6, 14, 15), and reduced the need for fossil fuels associated with the production of virgin plastics (SDG 13).

Carbon Avoidance Spotlight

For every tonne of Enva’s recycled plastic, 1 tonne of plastic has potentially not been sent to landfill, and 1 tonne of virgin plastic has potentially not been made.

• ABS product: Enva estimate this avoids 2.7 tCO2 e from potentially avoiding the consumption of the virgin equivalent, and 4.3 tCO2 e from landfill avoidance. 
• PP product: Enva estimate this avoids 2.1 tCO2 e from potentially avoiding the consumption of the virgin equivalent, and 4.3 tCO2 e from landfill avoidance. 
  Between April 2024-October 2025, Insignia used 525 tonnes of ABS and 25 tonnes of PP, potentially avoiding an estimated 3,673 tCO2 e

This is equivalent to the carbon footprint associated with driving the length of the UK in the average passenger car, Land’s End to John O’Groats, and back over 8000 times.

From Enva’s internal LCA. Produced using Ecochain® v4.3.1 to the ISO 14044, ISO 14040 and EN 15084 standards 

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