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production line. Carbios has Expressions of Intent with at least one PET supplier. Swiss company Gr3n has another technology


Abve: The Carbios demonstration plant


name EverPET for internal, industrial or post-con- sumer waste. It has recently been building a recycling unit to produce 100% PCR PET on a small scale for customer and test samples for different PET customer applications (bottle, film, yarn, multi-layer packaging). In the chemical EverPET process, the raw


materials (oligomers, monomers and BHET) are recovered from previously cleaned polyester wastes, which can be re-processed into a high-qual- ity polyester by downstream polycondensation. Carbios, which has developed an enzymatic


recycling technology (C-Zyme) for depolymerising PET using hydrolysis, brought its first demonstra- tion plant onstream in September. The plant includes a 20 m3


that uses alkaline hydrolysis. A demonstration plant should be fully operational early next year. Fabio Silvestri, Head of Marketing and Business Develop- ment, says the first industrial plant, with a capacity of 30,000 tonnes/yr, could start up before the end of 2024. He says the company has had confirma- tion that its technology can depolymerise textiles. Gr3n has an MoU with Kolon Industries to acceler- ate the commercialisation and the implementation of its technology throughout Asia. Ioniqa, a clean-tech spinoff from the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, has a 10,000 tonnes/yr plant producing BHT monomer from bottles using glycolysis, which it currently supplies exclusively to Indorama. Maarten Stolk, the company’s Business Developer, says that it plans also to use fibre as a feedstock. The company is currently in discussions with a plant engineering firm so that it can sell licensed packages. In June, Loop Industries in Terrebonne, Quebec,


depolymerisation reactor capable


of processing 2 t of PET per cycle, which is the equivalent of 100,000 bottles. It is co-located with a Michelin tyre production plant in Clermont-Fer- rand, France; Michelin is a major shareholder in Carbios, and is interested in using various recycled or renewable materials in its tyres. Martin Stephan, the company’s Deputy CEO,


says Carbios will also build and operate a 40,000 tonnes/yr reference unit, the first industrial plant. Its intention is to start up the plant in 2025 and that the plant will be adjacent to an existing PET


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Canada, announced a strategic partnership and equity investment from SK Global Chemical (now called SK Geo Centric); Loop and SKGC intend to form a joint venture with exclusivity to build recycled PET resin and polyester fibre manufactur- ing facilities using Loop’s depolymerisation technol- ogy throughout Asia. SKGC currently has a 10% shareholding in Loop. In August, plans were announced for the first Infinite Loop Asian facility in Ulsan, South Korea, to begin preparation in 2022. Loop recently completed the conversion of its


Terrebonne, Québec pilot plant to a small produc- tion facility. In September of this year, together with French mineral water company Evian, Loop unveiled the Evian Loop bottle, made from Loop’s 100% recycled PET coming from waste plastic and fibre. The bottles will be rolled out at commercial scale in South Korea in 2022, with the goal of launching in other markets later.n


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