Second Thread Waste Diversion Metrics
— Fabric, Paper & Aluminium

Second Thread is a New Zealand manufacturer of architectural fabric tension systems, aluminium frame structures, and large-format printed graphics. Manufacturing generates waste. We track ours — and we publish the numbers.

This page reports the volume of production waste we divert from landfill across three material streams: technical fabric offcuts, paper and print waste, and aluminium. Every figure is sourced directly from our Mt Maunganui facility and updated each time a material collection is completed.

What we measure:

• Fabric — offcuts and end-of-run technical textile waste from our tension system production

• Paper — large-format print substrate waste from our graphics manufacturing process

• Aluminium — frame and extrusion offcuts from structural component production

To date, Second Thread has diverted over 12.8 metric tonnes of production waste from New Zealand landfill — with fabric and paper streams active since 2025, and aluminium tracking underway.

We publish this data because verified, material-specific waste diversion is how sustainable manufacturing claims move from policy to proof.