Cobal launches new community partnership with local school

Dec 8, 2025 | Project News

Cobal sustainability press release dec2025 Cobal launches new community partnership with local school

Cobal’s off-cut aluminium is being made into Year 8 design projects

Cobal has announced a new sustainability partnership with local school, St Bartholomew’s School, to supply its material off-cuts for use in their 3D design classes.

The company’s sustainability goals align with the values demonstrated at St Bart’s, meaning that up-cycling the company’s aluminium off-cuts are going to appropriate wates streams for reuse and repurposing.

Year 8 students are making spoons from the left-over aluminium, learning skills in cutting, cold-working, and polishing, while GCSE and A-Level students are using aluminium in parts of their developmental models.

Sim Richards, co-head of 3D design at St Bart’s, said: “At a time when all schools face pressure on budgets, local support and partnerships can make a difference. It is very satisfying to both save money and repurpose materials which are so valuable as resources for our students and would otherwise be put into landfill.

“Instead, students get to take home a useful utensil that they have proudly crafted themselves. Not only are students developing practical skills, they are also learning about how we can take items destined for the bin and turn them into something with value.”

Yvonne Speirs, sales manager and sustainability chief at Cobal, said: “It is really exciting for us to see what the pupils are making with Cobal’s leftover materials, that would otherwise go to waste.”