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Honeywell forms joint


ventures Honeywell and Avangard Innovative have formed a joint venture to build a chemical recycling plant in Waller, Texas, US. The planned facility is expect- ed to have the capacity to recycle 30,000 tpa of mixed plastics waste. The facility will use Honeywell’s new UpCycle Process Technology to reprocess plastic waste into feedstock for new plastics production. Production is set to begin in 2023. The UpCycle Process


Technology combines pyrolysis and contaminants management technology. Honeywell’s process is also the centre of a joint venture project with Sacyr in Spain. This plans to build a facility to recycle 30,000 tpa of mixed waste plastics.


Honeywell has also signed an agreement with TotalEnergies to supply the French group with feedstock from the plant when it starts up in 2023. � www.honeywell.com


Above: The bale yard at Evergreen’s facility in Clyde, Ohio


Evergreen pushes rPET capacity even higher


US PET recycler Evergreen is expanding its operation in Clyde, Ohio, adding a 54,000 sq-foot building to its existing 238,000 sq-foot facility. The new building will house four additional high-volume, food grade rPET lines. The expansion is expect- ed to be completed in June and will increase Ever- green’s annual rPET capacity to 217m lbs. This is a rapid rise from the company’s 40m lbs capacity a year ago when the Clyde facility was its only location. Since then it has acquired three facilities and now claims to be among the three largest


producers of food-grade rPET in North America. Evergreen Riverside in


California was acquired from CarbonLite in May 2021. Evergreen Albany in New York (formerly UltrePET) and Evergreen Amherst in Canada (formerly Novapet) were acquired from WTE Corp in November 2021. Evergreen President and CEO Omar Abuaita said: “We would not have invested some $200m in this business if we did not feel strongly about market demand and our integrated value proposition. We have invested massively, and it is our intention to continue to


invest and grow Evergreen.” Evergreen says it has also


increased the number of post-consumer PET bottles it collects and recycles. In January 2021, the company recycled about 2bn PET bottles a year and the number is now 11.6bn. The company has


invested in AI-enabled robots that sort PET bottles from moving streams of waste at speeds up to three times faster and at higher accuracy than manual sorting, it says. “We don’t want any recyclable bottles to get past us,” said Greg Johnson, GM. � www.evergreentogether.com


KP Films to add rPET capacity in N America


Films group Klöckner Pentaplast has announced an expansion to its capacity to produce post-consumer recycled content PET in North America. The expansion will add an extrusion line and two thermoforming lines adding a total of 15,000 tpa of new rPET/PET capacity.


KP has not yet decided on the location for the expansion, which will be 6


situated next to one of its six North American plants. It is targeted to be fully operational in the first quarter of 2024. The extrusion line will support


production of sustainable product lines such as kpNext recyclable pharmaceu- tical blister films, and Smartcycle recyclable label and consumer packaging films. The thermoformers will produce kp Elite mono-material


PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | January/February 2022


protein trays which are made using up to 100% recycled PET. KP says that more than 20% of its


product volumes are made using PCR material. The expansion responds to strong demand for sustainable options among food packaging, pharmaceutical, consumer and label film customers. � www.kpfilms.com


www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com


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