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liquid feedstocks from a new facility which will be used to produce Marlex Anew Circular Polyethyl- ene (PE). Suez, Loop, and SKGC selected the Chemesis industrial platform in Saint-Avold, France, as the site for their much-touted European manu- facturing facility. The €450m project, leveraging the experience of SKGC in petrochemical processes, the expertise of Suez in resource management, and the depolymerisation technology of Loop, will produce up to 70,000 tonnes/yr of PET resin. In spring, ExxonMobil, Cyclyx International,
Sealed Air, and Ahold Delhaize USA jointly an- nounced their intention to become the first venture in the US to successfully launch a circular food packaging proof of concept leveraging ExxonMobil’s Exxtend technology. Following tests, the process is now being evaluated for scale. ExxonMobil also signed an agreement with Cyclyx International and LyondellBasell to develop a first-of-its-kind sorting and processing facility in the Houston area. Lyondell- Basell is also building a chemical recycling plant at its site in Wesseling, Germany, using its proprietary MoReTec technology. Biotrend Energy signed equipment supply,
Below: ExxonMobil and partners are in a project for a circular food packaging proof of concept leveraging the group’s Exxtend technology
production licence, and warranty agreements to build Turkey’s first commercialised chemical waste recycling plant using Honeywell UOP UpCycle technology, an advanced recycling process based on pyrolysis. Two parallel 30,000-tonne units of modular design will be built in the Izmir region and are expected to start up in 2025. The US conglomer- ate signed a similar agreement with GE Technology to use UpCycle at a planned facility in South Korea with the start of production again set for 2025, and is also exploring the possibility of taking the technology to Egypt with Environ Adapt. RePEaT, a joint venture established by Teijin
Limited, JGC Holdings Corporation, and Itochu Corporation, signed an agreement to license Teijin’s dimethyl terephthlate (DMT) technology for chemical recycling of PET to Zhejiang Jianxin
Jiaren New Materials, making it the first company in the world to be licensed by RePEaT. DMT decomposes and converts polyester (PET) and then repolymerises it while removing dyes and impuri- ties. Zhejiang Jianxin plans to use the technology in a polyester recycling plant in Shaoxing, China. Other notable collaborations included the
Canadian developer of patented water-based technologies Aduro teaming up with Chemelot Innovation and Learning Labs (CHILL), to carry out an experimentation program to advance chemical recycling research at Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen, the Netherlands. JV partners Asahi Kasei and Microwave Chemical started a project aimed at commercialis- ing a chemical recycling process using microwave technology to depolymerise polyamide (PA) 66 and directly obtain the monomers HMD and ADA. This can be accomplished at high yield with low energy consumption, and the resulting monomers used to manufacture new PA66. Soon after the official groundbreaking of its first
commercial-scale plant in Hebron, Ohio, Free- point, which uses pyrolysis technology, announced a licence agreement via a subsidiary with Ohio- based firm Alterra for a proposed 192,000 tonnes/ yr facility in the Gulf Coast region. The facility’s output will be ISCC Plus certified and sold exclu- sively to Shell. Ineos Styrolution said it will join Agilyx and
Technip Energies to advance development of the previously announced TruStyrenyx PS recycling facility in Channahon, Illinois. Technip also integrat- ed its pyrolysis purification capabilities with Hoop, the proprietary technology by Versalis, Eni’s chemical company, which has begun constructing a demo plant in Mantua, Italy. The demo plant will have capacity to handle 6,000 tonnes/yr of second- ary raw material and is scheduled to be running by the end of 2024. As expected, there was a degree of consolida- tion by some major players, with Korea-based SK Chemicals signing an asset transfer agreement relating to the BHET and PET business division of Shuye, a Chinese company specialising in green materials, amounting to $98.4m. It was claimed that through the acquisition, SK chemicals obtained a commercial production system for chemically recycled BHET and products utilising depolymeri- sation technology one-to-two years ahead of other domestic companies. Elsewhere, BASF Venture Capital, the corporate venture company of the BASF Group, made a significant investment in Swiss startup DePoly, a sustainable plastic solu- tions provider developing chemical recycling
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