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chemical recycling
 
New facility of Neste to upgrade liquefied waste plastic into high-quality petrochemical feedstock is located at the company’s existing refinery in Porvoo, Finland
With a new investment, Neste is advancing the industrial scale-up of chemical recycling. The company has commissioned a large upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic at its Porvoo refinery in Finland. The plant enables the conversion of complex plastic waste streams into high-quality feedstock for the petrochemical industry. This development supports circular economy goals while addressing...
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Schneider Electric collaborates with GR3N to tackle plastic recycling challenges and drive circularity in chemical sector
Schneider Electric has partnered with "GR3N", a PET chemical recycler, to create the first open automation system for the advanced plastics recycling industry. With 50 percent of the world's plastic waste ending up in landfills and only nine percent recycled, "GR3N" developed "MADE". It stands for Microwave Assisted Depolymerization solution. The new process breaks down PET into its chemical...
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The Hydro PRS plant in Teesside is scheduled to go into commercial operation in 2024
Mura Technology celebrated the commissioning of the world's first Hydro-PRS plant in the UK with a pre-opening at the end of October 2023. Hydro-PRS stands for Hydrothermal Plastic Recycling Solution and is a chemical recycling process. Plastic waste is not incinerated, but simply converted back into crude oil in 30 minutes using pressure, heat and water. This new type of recycling is now being...
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ZSK twin screw extruders from Coperion ensure especially energy-efficient, continuous reactor loading in chemical plastics recycling
Coperion will deliver a “ZSK Mc18” twin screw extruder and corresponding peripherals for a "Plastics2chemicals" (P2C) plant that Belgian waste management company Indaver is building to chemically recycle plastic waste. The P2C plant is currently under construction in Antwerp, Belgium and is expected to annually transform 30,000 tons of so-called end-of-life plastics into high-quality basic...
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Using microwave technology, polyamide PA 6 is depolymerised to directly obtain the monomers HMD and ADA with low energy input and high yield
Asahi Kasei and Microwave Chemical launched a joint demonstration project in April 2023 with the objective of commercializing a chemical recycling process for polyamide 66 using microwave technology. The process utilizes microwaves to depolymerize PA66 and directly obtain the monomers hexamethylenediamine (HMD for short) and adipic acid (ADA for short), which is expected to be accomplished at high...
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The secondary raw material obtained from the chemical recycling of plastic waste is similar to oil in many properties and is a fully-fledged substitute for fossil resources
In the mechanical recycling of plastics, not all material streams can be captured. For example, multilayer films from food packaging cannot be separated and reused in this way. In 2019, the collection of lightweight packaging from the Dual System recycled only 0.5 million tons out of a total volume of 1.2 tons. It is also necessary to return the remaining volume of 700,000 tons to the cycle...
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Batteries, plastics, renewable raw materials: new ideas for the circular economy
In a circular economy, the aim is to avoid waste, reuse products and recover resources. “Companies that can provide solutions for the transformation to a circular economy will have a crucial competitive advantage,” said Dr. Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and Chief Technology Officer of BASF, speaking about the circular economy, a key issue of the future in...
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Plastic waste as a valuable resource: Südpack invests in joint project with Recenso
Südpack advocates the establishment of chemical recycling as a complementary technology to mechanical recycling, which has not been suitable for processing the complex laminated films of the packaging industry. Collaboration with Recenso, a specialist in the implementation of systems for resource recovery, marks an initial pioneering step by the leading film manufacturer towards an efficient...
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Sabic TF-Bope polymer is part of the “Design for Recyclability” under Trucircle solutions
Sabic has launched a sustainable packaging solution for frozen food which combines a new polyethylene (PE) grade with innovative film production technology. Compared to conventional blow PE film solutions, it offers significantly higher throughput and also has potential for down-gauging, making it attractive from both a commercial and sustainability standpoint. The solution is based on a mono web...
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Working together for a circular economy with chemical recycling
There is growing pressure in industry and society to improve the recyclability of plastics and to establish a closed-loop recycling system for this highly versatile packaging material. Südpack, one of Europe’s leading film manufacturers, is a major driver of innovation in the industry. The company is increasingly focusing on chemical recycling of plastic waste and developing high-tech packaging...
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