Metrics

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 84.5 metric tonnes of production waste from New Zealand landfill — with fabric and paper streams active since 2023, and aluminium tracking underway.

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

PAPER

DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL

73.3

Metric Tonne

YEAR TO DATE

9.6

Metric Tonne

PREVIOUS YEARS

63.7

Metric Tonne

  • | Oct/23 1500kgs | Nov/23 4750kgs | Dec/23 6000kgs | Feb/24 2300kgs | Apr/24 2250kgs | May/24 6400kgs | Jul/24 8480kgs | Aug/24 4150kgs | Sep/24 6500kgs | Oct/24 4700kgs | Nov/24 7500kgs | Mar/25 3600kgs | Sep/25 5550kgs | Feb/26 3720kgs | Mar/26 - 1838kgs | Apr/26 - 1247kgs | May/26 - 1198kgs | Aug/26 - 1610kgs

DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL

8.5

Metric Tonne

FABRIC

Fabric recycling

YEAR TO DATE

2.6

Metric Tonne

PREVIOUS YEARS

5.9

Metric Tonne

  • | May/26 - 1346kgs | Mar/26 – 1234kgs | Dec/25 – 1150kgs | Nov/25 – 1380kgs | Sep/25 – 1035kgs | Sep/25 – 805kgs | Aug/25 – 805kgs | May/25 – 690kgs |

ALUMINIUM

Aluminium Recycling

DIVERTED FROM LANDFILL

2.7

Metric Tonne

YEAR TO DATE

1.3

Metric Tonne

PREVIOUS YEARS

1.4

Metric Tonne

  • | Sep/24 - 58kgs | Oct/24 - 127kgs | Dec/24 - 112kgs | Feb/25 - 94kgs | Mar/25 - 199kgs | May/25 - 197kgs | Jun/25 - 120kgs | Jul25 - 111kgs | Aug/25 - 138kgs | Sep/25 - 128kgs | Oct/25 - 121kgs | Jan/26 - 556kgs | May/26 - 448kgs | Jun/26 - 266kgs |