MATERIALS | PEX
The investment programme’s total cost is around
€12m. As well as the €4.2m loan from the Climate Fund, the investment is also financed by Taaleri Sijoitus – a group of domestic individuals and family-owned investment companies. Wastewise’s pyrolysis oil has earned the ISCC Plus sustainability certificate and is refined by its parner, Neste, into raw materials for new polymers. Wastewise says that each tonne of plastic pro- cessed at the plant reduces around 1.9 tonnes of CO2-equivalent. One pyrolysis plant is projected to generate an annual emissions reduction of about 20 tonnes of CO2-eq – with an estimated cumulative emissions reduction potential of 400,000 tonnes of CO2-eq over 10 years, says the company.
Above: Uponor’s AquaPEX has been used in a new apartment building in Orlando, Florida
gives us a head start on our transition to circular materials,” said Thomas Fuhr, chief technology officer at Uponor. “Our new long-term goal is to use 100% of our PEX waste as raw material through closed-loop recycling.” Kaisa Suvilampi, managing director at Waste-
wise, added: “Through our processes, we were able to turn PEX into pyrolysis oil of sufficient quality to use it as input for a refinery – which in turn can process it into a high-quality cracker feed. This project strikes certain PEX off from the list of materials giving recyclers a headache.” At the same time, Wastewise has received a €4.2 million (US$4.6m) loan from the Finnish Climate Fund – to help support its investment programme. The loan will allow the company to build new recycling lines – which will help to recover hard-to- recycle plastics such as PEX, according to a report in the Helsinki Times.
Multi-layer pipe Tecnomatic of Italy says that a “top European producer” has ordered an extrusion line to pro- duce both PEX and PE-RT multi-layer pipe. The multi-purpose line allows the production of both pipes in five layers. A key feature of the line is a version of the company’s Athena die-head series. Based on a radial distributor design, the product has been modified – giving more flexibility and accuracy in the distribution, says the company. This is particu- larly important for shaping the EVOH and adhesive into thin, uniform layers. The radial distributors have no dead zones or edges where material could stop – allowing easy cleaning and rapid assembly and disassembly. Radial spirals allow low pressure losses and high flexibility in terms of layer structure (thick or thin
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