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Above: Renasci’s ISCC PLUS-certified recycling centre in Oostende, Belgium
will use to produce circular plastics. BASF is working with several partners to further develop pyrolysis technology. In 2019, it invested €20m in Quantafuel, a Norwegian company specialised in the pyrolysis of mixed post-consum- er plastic waste and the purification of the resulting oil. In September 2020, Quantafuel started up its first pyrolysis plant with a capacity of approximately 20,000 tonnes/yr in Skive, Denmark. “Together, we are also working on further developing and improving the process,” says BASF. “Developing suitable catalysts for the new process technology is an important aspect of this. These catalysts aim to ensure that high-purity pyrolysis oil is always produced, even when the composition of the plastic waste varies.” In late August, Quantafuel said the Skive plant would undergo upgrades before the end of the year, allowing for stable, long-term commercial production. “We are working on removing the last known obstacle,” said Quantafuel’s interim CEO Terje Eiken. In September, it announced plans to expand into the UK, with a plant in Sunderland that could be up and running “in a few years.” Additional sites are also being considered by Quantafuel UK. The Sunderland plant will be designed to process more than 100,000 tonnes/yr of waste plastics, to be sourced from across the north of England. In June, Borealis announced an exclusive
agreement with Renasci which has enabled Borealis to offer commercial volumes of chemically recycled base chemicals and polyolefins since May. (Borealis has a10% share of Renasci.) Borealis obtains chemically recycled material from Renasci Oostende Recycling in Belgium. Projected output is 20,000 tonnes/yr. Feedstock will be subsequently processed in the Borealis steam crackers, initially at its production location in Porvoo, Finland. Earlier, in April, Borealis announced a feasibility study for a chemical recycling unit to be estab- lished at the Borealis production location in
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Stenungsund, Sweden is being carried out with project partner Stena Recycling, and could lead to operations beginning in 2024. Borealis will also co-operate independently with Fortum Recycling and Waste on a project involving the sourcing of plastic waste to the chemical recycling unit. In October, ExxonMobil announced plans to build its first, large-scale plastic waste advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, USA, which is expected to start operations before 2023 with a planned capacity of 30,000 tonnes/yr. A smaller, temporary facility, is already operational and produc- ing commercial volumes of certified circular polymers that will be marketed by the end of this year. ExxonMobil’s initial trial of its proprietary
process recycled more than 1,000 tonnes of plastic waste and has demonstrated the capability of processing 50 tonnes per day. The company says it is developing plans to build
approximately 500,000 tonnes/yr of chemical recycling capacity globally over the next five years. As mentioned earlier, it is collaborating with Plastic Energy on a plant in Notre Dame de Gravenchon, France, which is expected to process 25,000 tonnes/yr of plastic waste when it starts up in 2023, with the potential for further expansion to 33,000 tonnes/yr. ExxonMobil is also assessing sites in The Netherlands, the US, Canada, and Singapore. At the beginning of November, Honeywell announced the commercialisation of its UpCycle Process Technology, which incorporates pyrolysis. Sacyr, a Spain-based global engineering and services company with operations in more than 20 countries worldwide, will be the first to deploy the Honeywell technology. The two companies will form a joint venture to operate a facility in Andalu- cía, Spain, with a capacity of 30,000 tonnes/yr of mixed plastics waste. Production is expected to begin in 2023. Arcus Greencycling uses a pyrolysis process
that can handle a wide range of polymers found in mixed waste, from PP, PE, and PS to more difficult polymers like PVC and ABS. The company has a co-operation agreement regarding pyrolysis technology with Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Arcus is currently building a 4,000 tonnes/yr industrial-scale pilot plant in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company expects this to start operations in the second quarter of 2022. “This plant will offer customers a highly robust process at an industrial scale to either test the suitability of a wide variety of waste streams for chemical recy- cling and/or utilise the facility to produce commer- cially usable pyrolysis oil,” it says. Clariter says its chemical recycling technology
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